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Happy weekend, everyone! Got some spare time in the next two days? Give the LibreOffice community a hand, enhance your skillset, and make the software even better for millions of users around the world: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/

Announcing the winners of the LibreOffice Template Contest with Adfinis, which started in December! https://adfinis.com/en/blog/winners-of-the-libreoffice-template-contest-2020/

New update: LibreOffice 7.1.1 is now available, with over 90 bugfixes and compatibility improvements. Many thanks to our worldwide community and certified developers for their work on it! Learn more and download: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/03/04/libreoffice-711/

LibreOffice tip of the day: Want to count words for just one particular paragraph style? Use Edit > Find & Replace > Paragraph Styles, select the style > Find All and read the number from the status bar.

Dive into the tech behind LibreOffice! Tomaž Vajngerl is working on a built-in "Xray" like UNO object inspector, which will help developers to debug issues in the software: https://tomazvajngerl.blogspot.com/2021/03/built-in-xray-like-uno-object-inspector.html

LibreOffice tip of the day: The suite has great extensions to increase your productivity - check them out: https://extensions.libreoffice.org

Thought LibreOffice was "just" an office suite? Think again! It's a worldwide project and community where anyone can get involved. Join in, build up your skills, and make something awesome – like Rafael Lima from Brazil: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/03/01/community-member-monday-rafael-lima/

LibreOffice tip of the day: Use Sections in LibreOffice Writer to protect part of a text, show/hide text, reuse parts from other documents, or use a different column layout. https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-GB/text/swriter/01/04020100.html

LibreOffice Calc tip of the day: Use Shift+Space to select the current row and Ctrl+Space to select the current column.

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/

LibreOffice tip of the day: Insert metadata in your document with Insert > Fields > More Fields… > Document or DocInformation.

LibreOffice tip of the day: Need to insert the date in a spreadsheet cell? Type Ctrl+; or Shift+Ctrl+; to insert the time.

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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/

New features in LibreOffice 7.1 - this video has subtitle translations in 17 languages, thanks to our awesome localisation volunteers! Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese (BR), Slovenian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Welsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLutwM8XKvo

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