Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released

JPyObjC Dude writes "The 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.

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One day it'll be as good as MS Office!

[bburton]

Feature categories include increased interoperability with Microsoft Office...

Hopefully the OpenOffice team has incorperated support for Clippy (finally!!). It's the one thing that's been keeping me from leaving MS Office. I just love that little guy. He's so helpful.

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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Maximum row number

[camcorder]

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.

Re:Maximum row number

[RealAlaskan]

At last 65536 rows as Microsoft Excell.

Unfortunately, my boss uses spreadsheets (for populatoin models) with way more than 65k rows. He's stuck with Corel's spreadsheet, because it will do 1M by 1M spreadsheets.

Obviously, we shouldn't be doing that sort of thing is a spreadsheet, but that's another story.

Beta Candidate??

[chris09876]

Is this a beta candidate? The only thing worse than google having betas for years is a company releasing a beta candidate.

Re:Now smaller!

[narcc]

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.

Re:What Open Office Really Needs...

[wildwood]

is to work exactly like MS Office.

Which version?