Εδώ και πολύ καιρό, το OpenOffice αποτελεί την καλύτερη απάντηση του ανοικτού λογισμικού στο Microsoft Office, προσφέροντας πλήθος χαρακτηριστικών που καλύπτουν τις ανάγκες των περισσότερων χρηστών.

Η ομάδα που αναπτύσσει το OpenOffice ανακοίνωσε αυτή τη βδομάδα τη νέα έκδοση της σουίτας. Το OpenOffice 3.2 έρχεται με μια πληθώρα βελτιώσεων, επιχειρώντας να αποσπάσει μεγαλύτερο μερίδιο αγοράς.

Αναλυτικά, οι αλλαγές που ανακοίνωσε η ομάδα ανάπτυξης είναι οι εξής:

File locking implementation changes.
Allow usage of default master password.
Remove unused 3D options
Make slideshow media controllable via effects
Sorting preserves the original order of entries with equal sort keys

If there are no previous sort settings, the sort dialog defaults to the column of the cursor position. The toolbar buttons always use the cursor position

The toolbar buttons use the same logic as the sort dialog to determine if a range has column headers
INDIRECT now supports the ‘!’ sheet separator
Rename sheet with double-click
Repeat vectors if used in 2D array
Formula syntax in tip help
Zoom slider in Calc status bar
Scaling factor in toolbar for page preview
Scroll wheel switches pages in page preview
BETADIST with optional parameter for cumulative/density
Storage of data pulled in by external references changed
Added EUROCONVERT function
New GAMMA, CHISQDIST, CHISQINV, changed GAMMADIST.
DATEVALUE and TIMEVALUE now return date or time only
Base parameter of LOG now optional
Cumulative parameter of POISSON now optional
New “Context” mode for numerals setting
Introduction of an overline font effect
Accept/Reject Change in context menu
changes to format menu
Introduction of an outline level attribute for paragraphs and paragraph styles
More hyperlink related entries in the context menu
search inside notes
Serbian Cyrillic Numbering Provider
Inconsistent terms: Autoformat – Autocorrect
New look for selection: transparency
“Navigator” added to the view menu
Grammar checking
reply to existing notes
changes to Tools-AutoCorrect
Footnotes… renamed to Footnotes/Endnotes…
bi-directional writing for chart elements
image controls: support for document-embedded images
Relative path for file based databases
SQL syntax highlighting
New short cuts for Sun Report Builder
views opened for editing are automatically put into “Run SQL Directly” mode
“Empty string is NULL” behavior refined
image controls: can be bound to text database columns, interpreting their content as relative link to the image
form controls: new property “Input Required”
image controls: scaling the image by keeping the ratio
check box grid columns have the “Tristate” property
Let OOo use own file locking mechanics to lock alien formats as well

Η νέα έκδοση του OpenOffice είναι διαθέσιμη σε αυτή τη διεύθυνση.

Πηγή: Pc Magazine