OpenOffice, everyone’s favorite free software office suite, released version 3.1 recently. It seems like only yesterday I was downloading StarOffice, what later became OpenOffice. The OO.org team keeps plugging away, and the fact that they’ve released such a comprehensive office suite is a real testament to the power of open source development. There are lots of new improvements in this latest release, and while it’s not a night-and-day improvement over previous iterations, it is a sufficient improvement to justify an upgrade.
From the OpenOffice.org 3.1 New Features list:
The full technical release notes containing a list of features and integrated child workspaces can be read here.
The Register has a decent overview of the new features, too.
Either Ubuntu needs to slow down one release or OOo needs to speed up. Their releases are always right after the latest Ubuntu distribution is released.
I use Calc on my home Ubuntu box, but there is one feature from Excel I really,really miss: entering the date and time in a cell merely by using the key combo of Ctrl + ;
Oh, and aandy-bot? DIAF.
I honestly haven’t used open office till now, but if it is very similar to Microsoft word I thought I should bring it to notice on how we can use macros for word and how they simplify the life of a user.
I have jsut written this post and I think I should share this:
http://www.explainstuff.com/2009/05/29/explain-what-is-a-macro-concept-of-the-day/