OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC4: OOo 3.0 inches closer to a final release

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OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC4: OOo 3.0 inches closer to a final release

by Brad Linder Oct 7th 2008

There's good news and no news from the OpenOffice.org camp. First the good news, OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC4 is out, which no doubt features some new bug fixes and tweaks and not a whole lot of new features that were absent from RC3. I can't be more specific than that, because while the developers have done a bang up job of creating an open source office suite, they really need to do a better job of documenting the updates in each release.

The release notes page for OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC4 looks an awful lot like the release notes page for RC3. And both are virtually unreadable, because there's no section that highlights the major differences. Rather, each includes roughly a zillion little feature updates and bug fixes that set OpenOffice.org 3.0 apart from OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, the most recent stable build.

With that in mind, there are a few important differences between OpenOffice.org 3.0 and OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, including:

OOo 3.0 includes native support for OS X
Support for Office 2007 documents
New multi-page view in Writer
Multiple users can edit spreadsheets simultaneously
Ability to add MS Access databases to Writer

OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC4 is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Tags: office, openoffice, openoffice.org, openoffice.org-3.0, openoffice.org-3.0-rc4

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Koolio said 2:45PM on 10-07-2008

I tried to use OOo at work and there are some problem that forced us to use MS Office. Most of problem is Excel.

- Multiple users can edit spreadsheets simultaneously
This seems to fix our problem.

- Writer with table compatibility
In Word, when you copy a table from Excel, it will create a table which is not compatible in Writer and backward.

- Import & export are a little complicated. You have to work around to import & export data to/from excel.

Jash Sayani said 7:52AM on 10-08-2008

Finally, the interface looks good... I guess its ready for distribution.... The older versions were just not ready.....

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