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30 Aug 2021

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?

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29 Aug 2021

LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2021

By Mike Saunders

Community, LibreOffice

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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 7.2, which includes many new features, updates and fixes. Our Indonesian community created a video showcasing the changes (PeerTube version here).

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27 Aug 2021

Parabolas as custom shapes in LibreOffice

By Mike Saunders

LibreOffice, Tips & Tricks

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Regina Henschel writes…

Teachers of mathematics often need a parabola in their instructions or exercises. Creating a parabola by using a chart is cumbersome. Therefore I have generated some parabolas as custom shape for anyone to use. You can get them in this LibreOffice Writer document.

A simple parabola

A parabola with focus

And a parabola with tangent, where you can drag the point of contact

The parabola-shapes are contained in a document.…

26 Aug 2021

The Writer Guide 7.2 just arrived

By Olivier Hallot

Community, Documentation, Team

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The new Guide comes one week after the release of the latest LibreOffice Community software

Jean H. Weber and Kees Kriek from the LibreOffice Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 7.2, one week after the release of LibreOffice Community 7.2

LibreOffice 7.2 Community includes many changes not visible in the user interface.…

26 Aug 2021

LibreOffice 7.2: A week in stats

By Mike Saunders

LibreOffice, Marketing

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One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 7.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too. So, what has happened in the week since then? Let’s check out some stats…

473,308 downloads

These are just stats for our official downloads page, of course – many Linux users will have acquired the new release via their distribution’s package repositories.…

25 Aug 2021

LibreOffice community members: Have your say in our survey!

By Mike Saunders

Community, LibreOffice

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At The Document Foundation, we try to grow and strengthen our community in many ways. We’d like to improve our support for existing community members who’re working on LibreOffice, but also increase the number of contributors (and TDF members).

To achieve this, we’ve created a survey for active members inside the LibreOffice community, to identify areas where focused activity is needed, and address the needs of local projects around the world.…