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LibreOffice 7.4 is just over a week away! Learn more about the new features, and help to test them: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4

These awesome Mexican students are working on a LibreOffice magazine, translations and more – check it out: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/08/03/libreoffice-is-a-flagship-project-for-social-service-at-uacm/

Check out what happened in the LibreOffice project and community in July, with our monthly recap: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/08/02/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-july-2022/

@jhansen Thank you! 😊

@al1r4d If you can do a test (eg using the "time" command to get a specific and reproducible number), please report it to our QA community. Thank you! 😊

We're very close to releasing #LibreOffice 7.4... But we'd appreciate some help with testing, before it goes live 💪 Give our QA team a hand, test the new features, and report any issues: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/08/01/help-us-to-test-libreoffice-7-4-rc2/

Got a lot of extensions in your LibreOffice installation? In our next major release – LibreOffice 7.4, due in a few weeks – you can now search quickly. Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt at Allotropia for adding this feature! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4#GUI

@tobtobxx Well, that's for compatibility with other office suites. Maybe we can make it even bigger in future, but then a database is probably better 😉

@tobtobxx Hmm, well, the amount of columns has to be stored in a number somewhere. And those have upper limits 😉 More here: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/limits

(Of course, when you're working with such large amounts of data, you might want to consider using Base...)

LibreOffice 7.4 arrives in a few weeks – with support for 16,384 columns in spreadsheets! Thanks to Luboš Luňák at Collabora Office for implementing this feature in Calc. Learn more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4#Calc

Calling all web developers! Join the small team at The Document Foundation, the entity behind LibreOffice, as our Web Technology Engineer: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/07/06/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-web-technology-engineer-m-f-d-10-20h-per-week-remote/

Coming up in #LibreOffice 7.4 next month: Writer now can take advantage of the remote LanguageTool APIs for grammar checking. Implemented by Mert Tümer at CollaboraOffice – sponsored by Adfinis. Learn more here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4#New_remote_grammar_checker:_LanguageTool

@TrechNex Yay! 😊

@Chrisleon27 @e@masochi.st It says in the blog post.

@indieishere Wait a couple of weeks for LibreOffice 7.4, and this will no longer be an issue, thanks to our awesome community: http://llunak.blogspot.com/2022/03/enabling-calc-support-for-16384-columns.html