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Use LibreOffice? Do more with it! Get the brand new LibreOffice 7.0 Guide from our fantastic documentation community – it's over 430 pages packed with tips, tricks and tutorials covering the whole suite: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/23/getting-started-with-libreoffice-7-0-guide-just-arrived/

Got Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, BTC, Nano, Dai... or even Dogecoin? Support LibreOffice with a donation to The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind the software! Donations help us to grow our community, expand our projects, and keep LibreOffice strong: https://pay.coingate.com/pay/thedocumentfoundation

Thanks for your donations to @tdforg, the non-profit behind LibreOffice! Here's what they helped us to achieve in 2020. Support us this year, and let's make it another great one for our LibreOffice projects and communities: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

How time flies! Nine years ago, The Document Foundation was registered in Berlin as the non-profit home of LibreOffice. A huge thanks to all our members, contributors and supporters over the years – you've helped our projects achieve awesome things! https://www.documentfoundation.org 🙂👍

New feature coming to LibreOffice thanks to Miklos Vajna @CollaboraOffice: gutter margins in Writer. These define the amount of extra space added to the specified margin (typically left), above any existing margin values: https://vmiklos.hu/blog/sw-gutter-margin.html

LibreOffice has extensive documentation in many languages – but it doesn't just happen by magic. It's created and maintained by a worldwide community – and you can join them, and build up your skills! Learn how Steve Fanning got involved: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/15/community-member-monday-steve-fanning/

LibreOffice is free software - but that's means more than just zero cost. It's about having the freedom to use, study, change and share the software. Learn more here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/14/free-software-its-about-much-more-than-zero-cost/ (Oh, and how many free software project logos do you recognise in this image?)

Coming up on Sunday: "I love Free Software Day" with the Free Software Foundation Europe! Get prepared by making a banner – we've created a hybrid PDF file that also opens in LibreOffice Draw, so that you can edit it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/11/show-your-love-for-free-software-using-libreoffice-draw/

Turn your hobby into a paid job! Join the team at The Document Foundation as a Developer Community Architect (m/f/d), 20-40h per week, working remotely. You'll help to bring new developers into our projects – Application deadline is February 18: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/01/18/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-development-mentor-m-f-d-20-40h-per-week-remote-202101-01/

Do more with your presentations! The LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.0 is now available, thanks to our documentation community. It's packed with tips, tricks and walkthroughs to get the most out of the software: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/09/make-better-presentations-with-the-impress-guide-7-0/

It's devroom time at #FOSDEM! Learn about the technology inside LibreOffice, with talks from The Document Foundation, Collabora Office, Allotropia and other developers: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/libreoffice/

We're at FOSDEM! It's the biggest meeting of free and open source software fans in Europe (and online this year). Visit the LibreOffice stand, check out our videos, and say hello in the chat room – we'd love to hear from you! https://stands.fosdem.org/stands/libreoffice/

LibreOffice is more than just software – it's a worldwide community, working together on something they love. Learn what they did in January, in the lead-up to LibreOffice 7.1: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/05/libreoffice-monthly-recap-january-2021/

LibreOffice 7.1 includes many user interface refinements thanks to Rizal Muttaqin and our Design community. Learn about improvements to the Elementary icon theme, and how consistency has been improved: https://libreofficemaster.blogspot.com/2021/02/elementary-theme-for-libreoffice-71.html

Big news: LibreOffice 7.1 is here! Huge thanks to all our volunteers and certified developers for making it happen. Discover the new features and improvements in this release, and why we're calling it "Community": https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoffice-7-1-community/

Americans! And Canadians! There are some gaps here, on our map of LibreOffice community contributors. Let's fix that! Help out with our projects, get involved in LibreOffice, and let us know if you'd like to be added to the map: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/community-map/

Calling all school and university students! How can we make LibreOffice better for you? And how can you join our projects and build up your skills? Today we're announcing LibreOffice New Generation, bringing new people into our community: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/01/29/announcing-libreoffice-new-generation/

Power up! Take the next step from being a LibreOffice user – become part of the community that makes it happen, like Felipe Viggiano and Zhenghua Fong. You can learn new skills, build up experience, and have fun too: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/01/25/community-member-monday-felipe-viggiano-and-zhenghua-fong/

Tech time! Discover what's going on "under the hood" in LibreOffice. Tomaž Vajngerl on behalf of Collabora Office is working on a UNO object inspector, which will make it easier to develop macros and extensions: https://tomazvajngerl.blogspot.com/2021/01/built-in-xray-like-uno-object-inspector.html

It's tantalisingly close... 😍 LibreOffice 7.1 will be released in a few weeks, and our community is putting the final touches to it! Help them to polish the new features and iron-out any bugs before release: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2021/01/20/libreoffice-7-1-rc2-is-available-for-testing/