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OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 released
by Brad Linder Sep 8th 2008 at 1:00PM
So what's new in OpenOffice.org 3.0? First you get a nifty little launcher as seen above that lets you choose the application you want to use. You can still launch Writer, Base, Sheet, or another application without pulling up the unified launcher if you want to. But you can also just launch OOo for a list of available tools.
The latest release also includes a ton of features and bug fixes not included in Ooo 2.4.1 including:
- Sheet names can contain almost any character
- You can now add MS Access databases to Writer
- There's a multi-page view for Writer
- Support for Office 2007 documents
- Multiple users can edit spreadsheets simultaneously
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iampriteshdesai said 2:59PM on 9-08-2008
It also supports PDFs by default. Hope it is included in Ubuntu.
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metatron said 9:47PM on 9-08-2008
I've heard about OpenOffice to be bloated and a resource hog. Is this true with the latest release?
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Žilvinas said 7:36AM on 9-09-2008
Coool, waiting tilll fulll version gona be released:)
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dp said 6:20PM on 9-09-2008
I haven't touched OOo since v2.3, and am hoping they improve the functionality significantly. In particular I wonder if they've gotten round to defining a search term for finding and replacing paragraph marks.
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Benedict said 7:58AM on 10-02-2008
WeW. Loved open source, but open office is the one I don't love after office 2007.
Add the ribbon interface, and see expanding users worldwide!
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