The LibreOffice Documentation Team is happy to announce the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 7.2, covering the latest innovations of the best open source office suite. The new guide is an effort of many volunteers and among them, Jean Hollis Weber, Kees Kriek, Peter Schofield, Vasudev Narayanan, Rafael Lima and Mitchell Camfield.
Announcement of LibreOffice 7.1.6 Community
Berlin, September 9, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.1.6 Community, the sixth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.1 family, targeted to desktop productivity, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/.
End user support is provided by volunteers via email and online resources: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/community-support/. On the website and the wiki there are guides, manuals, tutorials and HowTos. Donations help us to make all of these resources available.…
Interviewing Hypra’s Jean-Philippe Mengual about software accessibility
Accessibility is a key factor for the inclusiveness of digital transformation, but only a few people are really competent in the topic. To learn more about accessibility, we interviewed Hypra’s co-founder, Jean-Philippe Mengual.
Q1. Jean-Philippe, can you tell us about the birth of Hypra?
A1. In 2008 I met Corentin at the Sciences Po higher-learning school in Aix-en-Provence.…
LibreOffice Conference 2021
LibreOffice Conference will open on September 23 at noon CEST and will close on September 25 at 5:30PM CEST. The schedule has been finalized, and is available at the following link: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/schedule/. Of course, we may have last minute changes until September 12, when the schedule will be frozen. Sometime after that date, the schedule will also be available on Android mobiles (we will announce the availability of the app on Google Play and F-Droid in due time).…
LibreOffice 7.2 Media Coverage
The announcement of LibreOffice 7.2 has got a large media coverage in many geographies. This is a list of some of the most significant articles in English.
- 9to5 Linux: LibreOffice 7.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
- The Register: LibreOffice 7.2 brings improved but still imperfect Microsoft Office compatibility
- OMG! Ubuntu: LibreOffice 7.2 Released with Big Performance Improvements
- ZDNet: New LibreOffice 7.2: More Office compatibility, but enterprise really should pay up
- Thurrot: LibreOffice 7.2 Arrives with Improved Microsoft Office Document Support
- BetaNews: LibreOffice 7.2 is here with a long list of changes and improvements
- Softpedia News: LibreOffice 7.2 Community Is Now Available for Download
- Neowin: LibreOffice 7.2 adds better support for Microsoft Office documents
- ITWire: LibreOffice 7.2 Community adds performance improvements to better handle and manage large files
- It’s FOSS: ‘LibreOffice 7.2 Community Version Released
- TekDeeps: Have you already tried the new LibreOffice 7.2 office suite?
LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2021
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 7.2, which includes many new features, updates and fixes. Our Indonesian community created a video showcasing the changes (PeerTube version here).