OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 released

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OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 released

by Brad Linder Sep 8th 2008

The first release candidate of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is out. The next generation of the open source office suite has been in beta for months and is slated for a full release later this month.

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

You can find more updates in the release notes. OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC 1 is available for Linux, Solaris, Windows, and OS X. This is the first version of OpenOffice.org to include native support for OS X.

Tags: openoffice.org, openoffice.org-3.0, openofice.org-3.0-rc1

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

iampriteshdesai said 2:59PM on 9-08-2008

It also supports PDFs by default. Hope it is included in Ubuntu.

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?

Žilvinas said 7:36AM on 9-09-2008

Coool, waiting tilll fulll version gona be released:)

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.

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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