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Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta candidate has been released. You can find the feature guide that covers the wide array of improvements over the current 1.1 release. There are a bunch of problematic UI quirks in 1.1 that have been fixed in 2.0." Feature categories include increased interoperability with Microsoft Office, Asian Language Features, Developer-Specific Features, and new Internet based features. Commentary and an interview with Colm Smyth available at NewsForge.com.
I just don't know what I would do without all the incredibly useful toolbars in MS Office! Publishing my documents to the web, imbedding oh-so useful macros into all my documents. I like to turn them all on at the same time. I think there might even be an FTP client in there somewhere. You know what else I like about MS Office? I totally love th
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Anybody got a torrent? Or a magnet or ed2k link?
At last 65536 rows as Microsoft Excell. Now lots of people will be able to use their xls files on OpenOffice.org as that's the major blocker for those people I know.
. . . wait, that's a kernel joke. Crap!
I heard some time ago that the OO.o project had decided to drop support entirely for OSX.
...GASP... opening them on my PC with Office2k.
Which makes me beat my head against the wall. I'm stuck with using Abiword for when I need to open Word documents, or
I feel like I need to go to a free clinic every time I have to open an O2k app just out of sheer risk of Microsofection.
"Yes, doctor, I installed all the patches. Yes, I leave automatic updates on. Yes I have SP2 installed. No, I didn't notice that rash before I installed sp2."
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What does that mean?
"Please let us know if you have any problems. We'll go through a couple of release candidates and then, once it's stable enough, we'll release it as a beta and you can all start testing it!"
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
Is this a beta candidate? The only thing worse than google having betas for years is a company releasing a beta candidate.
I store my recipes online (the way nature intended)
Reminds me of a technical support story where a user called to complain that the new version of the software he purchased came on fewer disks than the previous version -- and wanted to know if they were shorting him on features.
Required reading for internet skeptics
I don't understand why they want to copy Excel so tightly. The 256 column limit is a real problem. I regularly use data sets that have more then 256 columns. I will adopt OO.o as my main office suite when that is overcome. Until then, quatro pro will have to do.
Try normalizing your data.
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is to work exactly like MS Office.
Which version?
normal(adj)- people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots [DECS]
So... if anybody in the know is out there, what's this release like? How buggy is it? What's the worst-case scenario if I start using it?
It's not even a beta yet. As far as stability goes, you shouldn't be surprised if it eats both your children and your dog.
It may work wonderfully for you, but again: it's a _BETA_. The people at OO.org can't really guarantee you anything because the point behind most beta releases is that the release is unstable and needs testing. They do these releases for the purposes of flushing out the hairy bugs that keep people like yourself away from it - if you're scared of it breaking your system, then it's not for you.
This is bullshit, this is a tar.gz file on the mirrors. The author has his head up his ass.