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In April, LibreOffice's QA (Quality Assurance) community fixed 207 bugs – and worked on many other bug reports too. Learn more and give them a hand: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2021/05/05/qa-dev-report-april-2021/

Update time! LibreOffice 7.1.3 is now available, with over 100 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/06/libreoffice-7-1-3/

LibreOffice tip of the day: Need to present a report written with Writer? File > Send > Outline to Presentation automatically creates a slideshow from the outline.

Create 3D objects in LibreOffice! You can use Draw to add bitmaps, select the right angle and lighting, and add other effects. Here's a quick guide to making a globe, for instance: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/05/3d-objects-making-a-globe-with-libreoffice/ (map: Daniel R. Strebe)

Last year's LibreOffice Conference took place online, due to the pandemic. But we still had lots of talks, presentations, workshops and sessions – and many videos from them too! More here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/04/annual-report-libreoffice-conference-2020/

New LibreOffice releases, conference news, documentation updates, Open Badges, interviews and more... Find out what happened in the busy LibreOffice community in April! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/03/libreoffice-monthly-recap-april-2021/

Build up your skills, meet new people, and make LibreOffice rock! Today we're starting the Month of LibreOffice, May 2021 – where everyone who contributes to our projects gets a sticker pack, and chance to win extra merch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/05/01/starting-today-the-month-of-libreoffice-may-2021/

Thanks to localisation volunteers around the world, LibreOffice’s documentation is available in many languages. Today we're issuing special badges for translators of the French Math Guide 7.0 – great work, everyone! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/30/open-badges-for-french-math-guide-translators/

Tender to implement Curl based HTTP/WebDAV UCP in LibreOffice: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/29/tender-to-implement-curl-based-http-webdav-ucp-202104-01/

In a few days, the Month of LibreOffice begins... Stay tuned to our blog for all the news: https://blog.documentfoundation.org

This year's LibreOffice Conference will take place from September 23 – 25 (online). And the Call for Papers is now open! Join us and give a talk about LibreOffice technology, design, localisation, marketing and other topics: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libocon-cfp-is-open/

Macros help users to automate common tasks in LibreOffice. In September 2019 we announced a new team in our community to work on macro support, and here's their third update – join them, and give them a hand! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libreoffice-macro-team-progress-report-3/

LibreOffice tip of the day: You can customize the middle mouse button behaviour by going to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > View > Middle Mouse button.

@igami Hi igami! I'm afraid we can't provide help via social media (we're a small non-profit with very limited resources). For all help, please see our community assistance site: https://ask.libreoffice.org

In 2020 we had two major releases of LibreOffice (6.4 and 7.0), packed with new features thanks to our community and certified developers. Plus lots of smaller bugfix updates too. Learn more in our Annual Report: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/27/annual-report-libreoffice-in-2020/

Students around the world learn valuable skills, and build up experience, by contributing to free and open source software projects like LibreOffice. Necdet Yücel helps to mentor students on their journeys: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/26/community-member-monday-necdet-yucel/

We've come a long, long way over the years... Check out the history of LibreOffice, OpenOffice(.org) and StarOffice on our timeline: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/ (Screenshot: Masterhit, CC-BY-SA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starwriter_compact_2.png)

Help us to spread the word about LibreOffice in schools, colleges and universities! And bring new people into our projects, so that we can keep on improving the software 👍 You can hand out these flyers: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/23/libreoffice-flyers-for-schools-and-universities-help-us-to-hand-them-out/

LibreOffice tip of the day: To quickly get a math object in Writer, type your formula, mark it, and use Insert > Object > Formula to convert the text.

The Document Foundation is the small non-profit behind LibreOffice. What did we do in 2020, supported by generous donations from users? Learn about our activities in our Annual Report: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/20/annual-report-the-document-foundation-in-2020/