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An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1

Posted by kdawson on from the hot-bits dept.

ahziem writes "With the final release two months away and an alpha version available, it's time to look at OpenOffice.org 3.1's new features: eye candy, better charts, replying to notes in the margin, overlining, macros in Base, RTL improvements for Arabic and Hebrew, and (believe it or not) better sorting. Download and report any bugs you find."

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  1. They should fix the obvious bugs instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I agree that OpenOffice needs a visual overhaul, because the 90s are over and nobody needs blocky icons and an ersatz Clippy. But that's not what they should focus on.

    I'm currently trying swriter, but I'm about to go back to Msword. I'm ready to make some concessions for the fact that it's FOSS, but it hangs all the time, it scrolls without forewarning after saving, and every few minutes I have to restart it because the cursor keys stop working at certain positions in the document. These are showstoppers for me. All these bugs are being tracked but apparently not worked on.

  2. Re:Sorting still lacks... by jimicus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hate to put it like this, but you've made an assumption which is remarkably common in the F/OSS world.

    You assume that the OP provides the data himself and can easily change it. If it comes from some other system, that may not be the case.