New “LibreOffice Expert 2024/2025” magazines available for schools and local communities

LibreOffice Expert magazines

Recently, Linux New Media released an updated version of its “LibreOffice Expert” magazine, which contains tutorials, tips and tricks about the office suite. And some articles were contributed by members of the LibreOffice community! The magazines come with DVDs that include LibreOffice for Linux, Windows and macOS, alongside extra templates, extensions, videos and guidebooks.

We have some copies to give away, for schools, universities and local communities.…

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LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2024

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

  • The biggest news in August was the release of LibreOffice 24.8. This is our latest major stable branch – and the second to use the “year.month” version number scheme. It has a ton of new features, improvements and fixes, some of which are shown in this short video (PeerTube version here):

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Community Member Monday: Gladys David

Gladys David

Today we’re talking to Gladys David, who is helping out in LibreOffice’s Quality Assurance (QA) project…

Hi! My name is gladys, I’m 41 years old and I’m French. I’ve been living in Espoo (Finland) for about six years – it’s a country where I always wanted to live. Previously I stayed in London for 10 years, and was in France before that.…

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Community announces the Getting Started Guide 24.8

The book is released on time for the new LibreOffice 24.8 release.

Getting Started Guide 24.8

The community members of the LibreOffice documentation team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Getting Started Guide 24.8, at the same time of the release of LibreOffice Community 24.8, our latest major update.

The book is for anyone who wants to get up-to-speed quickly with LibreOffice 24.8.…

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LibreOffice 24.8, for the privacy-conscious office suite user

The new major release provides a wealth of new features, plus a large number of interoperability improvements

Berlin, 22 August 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), macOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux is available from our download page. This is the second major release to use the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M),…

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LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024 near Bonn!

LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024

FrOSCon is a yearly free and open source software (FOSS) conference that takes place in Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany. And this year, the LibreOffice community was present! We had a stand with information flyers and merchandise, including stickers, pens, beer/coffee mats and more:

LibreOffice community at FrOSCon 2024

Over the two days, many people visited our stand and asked us questions: what are we working on, when the next release is due (in a few days!),…

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