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Even when they can't meet in person, LibreOffice's worldwide translation communities are meeting online to localise the software! Join us and help to make LibreOffice available in your language, or improve support for it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/04/03/indonesian-libreoffice-community-online-translation-marathon/

Join the LibreOffice community, help to improve the software, meet new people (even online) and have fun! In March, we had a new release of LibreOffice, events, documentation updates and more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/04/01/libreoffice-monthly-recap-march-2020/

Our worldwide community helps to translate and localise LibreOffice – and its documentation – into many languages. Today, the Czech community announces its translation of the LibreOffice Online Guide, for running the suite in the cloud: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/31/libreoffice-online-guide-translated-into-czech/

Get more out of LibreOffice, with the "Getting Started" handbook for the 6.x series! It's full of information, guides and tips for making better documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Thanks to our awesome community for making it: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/getting-started-guide/

Today is Document Freedom Day! Discover why open document formats – as used by LibreOffice – are essential for long-term data storage. Avoid getting locked out of your own work: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/25/document-freedom-day-2020/

@solarkraft This is the optional NotebookBar user interface, which has been available since 2014. It's not enabled as standard. If you're not happy with, contribute back to our design community and give them a hand! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design

Calling all teachers! LibreOffice is a great choice for schools and education – it's free and open source, compatible with Microsoft Office, and you don't have to worry about license fees, subscriptions or software audits. Learn more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/24/libreoffice-a-great-choice-for-schools-and-education/

@jason_s_dodd Thanks so much Jason – our community appreciates it!

@sphyphes @9to5linux You can just change the icon theme in the options :-) Or if you want a different interface, try the NotebookBar, as shown at 0:19 in this video: https://youtu.be/6HUnR5IoAQk?t=19

@Michael1 Hi, not sure what you mean, sorry – the signature is there: https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.4.2/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.4.2_Win_x64.msi.asc

Update time! LibreOffice 6.4.2 has been released – it includes over 90 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Plus: an issue with blurry fonts on some macOS setups has been resolved. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/19/libreoffice-6-4-2/

LibreOffice is free software – which doesn't just mean that it's zero cost, but it also gives you the freedom to study how it works and modify it. But also important is document freedom! Learn about taking back control, and avoiding lock-in: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/17/document-freedom-in-2020/

Becoming a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, is a great way to help steer the software and community. Today we talk to Tomoyuki Kubota, a new member from our Japanese community: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/16/community-member-monday-tomoyuki-kubota/

LibreOffice is a worldwide, international project – hundreds of contributors across the globe help to improve the software and attend events to spread the word. Recently, our Czech community was at InstallFest in Prague: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/11/libreoffice-at-installfest-2020-prague-29-february-1-march/

We love our worldwide community of developers and supporters, who help to make LibreOffice even better with every release! And today we're announcing Open Badges for LibreOffice contributors, as thanks for their work: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/10/announcing-open-badges-for-libreoffice-contributors/

Don't pay for expensive PDF editing tools – use LibreOffice Draw! Since LibreOffice 6.4, it lets you consolidate (join) multiple text boxes into a single one, which is great if you've imported a PDF and the text content is split up into lots of chunks: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/06/libreoffice-power-feature-join-text-boxes-after-importing-pdfs/

LibreOffice is getting a new extensions and templates website! Learn more about the design and usability, and give us a hand with the finishing touches: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/02/our-new-extensions-and-templates-page-is-getting-ready/

@dadosch Cool! Do you have a screenshot?

LibreOffice 6.4.1 is now available! It includes 80 bugfixes and compatibility improvements – learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/02/27/libreoffice-641/

@Balex Hi, for Flatpak see here: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/flatpak/ – I'm afraid I can't answer that specific question, but you can ask on the community assistance website: https://ask.libreoffice.org