Update to OpenOffice 2 Released

VincenzoRomano writes "The very first update to OpenOffice 2, namely v2.0.1, has been released. Despite its version numbering, along with minor bug fixes there are a number of new features. From the update page: 'For example, it is now possible to disable and hide particular application settings, which comes in handy for central administration in networks. Plus, a new keyboard shortcut permits the user to return to a saved cursor position. The bullets and numbering feature has been expanded, and a new mail merge feature is available.' Downloads are ready in both binary formats and source code for an ever increasing number of localised languages. Go grab your version!"

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To make OpenOffice faster

[shreevatsa]

I just read this somewhere; thought everyone might find it useful --
Go to Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->Java and uncheck the "Use a Java Runtime Environment". (AFAIK, it doesn't break anything I use.)

It breaks the database and a whole lot of stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

Java gets used quite a bit in OpenOffice.org. In OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 Java was used for the following:

1. The Report Autopilot

2. JDBC driver support for Java-based databases

3. XSLT filters

4. BeanShell, the Netbeans scripting language, and the Java UNO bridge

5. Export filters to the Aportis.doc (.pdb) format for the Palm or Pocket Word (.psw) format for the Pocket PC

In OpenOffice.org 2.0 Java is additionally used in

1. Many parts of Base, the new Access-like database application; in particular the file-format which is a HSQLDB database

2. The media player, which adds movie and sound clips to documents

3. Mail merges to e-mail, which also require Java Mail

4. All document wizards in Writer

Re:Does it work with Terminal Services Yet?

[nexxuz]

this might help you

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/17/23 35221&tid=185

http://www.pcc-services.com/kixtart/scripts.html

Re:Why don't they release a patch?

[jsight]

Hurray for being wrong on all counts! :)

Firefox's auto-updater has been incremental since 1.5 (admittedly a recent release).

And Gentoo sends most security updates and some other updates as patches as long as you keep the original files in /usr/portage/distfiles. Admittedly, major new versions (and sometimes minor upstream releases) get pushed down as completely new packages, but patches are not uncommon even in the default system.

Re:New features ? Why ?

[emlprime]

A pivot table is a primitive data cube. (I'm sure that helped). Basically, given a table of data with different dimensions (factoids), you can come up with aggregate groupings to analyze different segments of your population.
So say you have a group of customers with these dimensions:

• accountnumber
• gender
• state
• activity
• countOfPurchases
• totalPurchasesInCents
• latestPurchase
• tenureOfMembership
• averageNumberOfItemsPerBasket

Each customer gets one row in the table. The pivot allows you to cross section this data. You could, for example, put gender across the top and tenure of membership along the left side with countOfAccountnumber (aggregate of accountnumber) to see whether males or females tend to stay with you longer. You could change the count to a percentage to see this normalized across different genders.
You could put in both a sum of items and an average of items per order to see if your customers tend to buy more all at once, or in smaller chunks. You could pop in latest purchase and see if this trend is increasing or decreasing.
You could do all of this with SQL, but the pivot table makes it really fast and convenient. Even PHB's can use them in our company, and often find interesting pivots.
The most common uses that I've seen are using pivots to isolate:

• Large churn segments (customers leaving in a big group)
• Seasonal buying patterns (patterns grouped by month to see that X happens every December
• Campaign analysis (Have isControl be a dimension and compare data based on whether or not they were control)

Hope that helped.

Re:Why don't they release a patch?

[stefanlasiewski]

This used to be the case with the 1.0 line. This was changed in Firefox 1.5 so that updates could be incremental and small.