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Get cool LibreOffice merchandise – T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and more

Show your love for LibreOffice with some snazzy merchandise! You can get T-shirts, hoodies, bags, mugs, baseball caps and more from online shops. And even better: some of the proceeds from sales go to The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. This helps us to grow our community, organise events, share

LibreOffice Template Contest – Win awesome prizes!

LibreOffice comes with various templates, and extras are available on our dedicated extensions and templates website. But even more are always welcome! Today, Swiss company Adfinis, a contributor to LibreOffice and member of The Document Foundation’s Advisory Board, is starting a contest to get shiny new templates

OpenOffice crashing on macOS Big Sur? Try LibreOffice

Some Apache OpenOffice users are reporting that version 4.1.8 is crashing on Apple macOS 11.0 (aka “Big Sur” or 10.16) when opening OOXML documents – like .docx and .xlsx. The error message is:

OpenOffice quit unexpectedly

Here’s a video showing how it crashes (WebM version here):

Community Member Monday: Shivam Kumar Singh

Today we’re talking to Shivam Kumar Singh, who has been working on new LibreOffice features as part of the Google Summer of Code

To start with, tell us a bit about yourself!

I am a undergraduate Engineering student at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology in Shibpur, India. Currently

Announcing the winners in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2020!

At the beginning of November, we started a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. So how many people got sticker packs? Check it out…

Great work, everyone! Hundreds of people, all across the globe, have helped out in our projects and communities. We’re hugely thankful

LibreOffice monthly recap: November 2020

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • November kicked off with a new Month of LibreOffice. This is a campaign we run twice a year, in which we award