OpenOffice 3.2 Released

harmonise writes "Version 3.2 of the OpenOffice.org office suite is now available. This marks the tenth anniversary year of the office suite, with over three hundred million downloads recorded in total. The new features include faster start up times; improved compatibility with open standard (ODF) and proprietary file formats; improvements to all components, particularly the Calc spreadsheet, with over a dozen new or enhanced features; and the Chart module (usable throughout OpenOffice.org) has had a usability makeover as well as offering new chart types."

Comments

Clippy

[MrEricSir]

I'm sorry, but I refuse to use any office suite that doesn't have animated characters telling me what to do.

Re:Clippy

[Jeng]

For some reason the first thought that went though my head was

"What meme would work best as an animated character?"

Re:Clippy

[natehoy]

Does CowboyNeal have an avatar?

Re:Clippy

[msclrhd]

It appears that you are having a nightmare. In this nightmare, would you like to...

1. be stabbed to death by a serial killer.
2. drown after seeing pennywise the clown (because we all float down here).
3. be forced to sit through a never ending video stream of lolcats.
4. live in a Being John Clippy world where everyone is clippy (clippy, clippy, clippy clippy, clippy).

Re:Clippy

[Duositex]

An LOLcat?

"I seez u r trying to makes lettrz. WordCat help u."

Re:Clippy

[Red Flayer]

Does CowboyNeal have an avatar?

Yes, he does. Unfortunately, you need a six-panel display to render the avatar due to size.

Furthermore, the advice you're likely to get from the CowboyNeal office assistant may be somewhat suspect.

It looks like you're trying to set a tabstop. Would you like some help with that?
Options:
Link to BBW pron
Link to mature porn
Link to hirsute porn
Link to horseporn
No thanks, I'm good.

That's not the kind of office assistant most of us could use.

Re:Clippy

[natehoy]

In other words, about as relevant as Clippy, but far more interesting.

Re:Clippy

[DrSkwid]

Looks perfect to me, though the last entry really should be

CowboyNeal Porn

Re:Clippy

[sconeu]

Natalie Portman.

It looks like your composing a Slashdot post. Would you like some assistance?

1. I'd like to see Natalie Portman, naked and petrified
2. I'd like to pour hot grits down my pants
3. In Soviet Russia...
4. I, for one, welcome our new meme-assisting overlords
5. CowboyNeal is my pilot
6. I'd like to get in the First Post!
7. No thank you. You must be new here.

You're Missing the Point About Dogs

[dreamchaser]

The Search Dog is a retriever!

Re:You're Missing the Point About Dogs

[socceroos]

...with dementia.

Re:bigger tables anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

640 columns should be enough for anyone

Re:Confession time

[smisle]

I had a funny moment yesterday - while teaching an 86 year old lady how to use a computer, she accidentally clicked on the search icon in windows explorer. The little search-pup appeared, and she looked at it quizzically ... When I showed her how to close the search panel, she said:

"oh, thank you. Good riddance."

Microsoft (and all the other OS companies) really need to determine their target demographic. It seems like everyone is shifting toward designing for the computer illiterate - removing "confusing" features, and replacing all the text with pictures.

I've been teaching Word processing to a whole slew of new computer users - and there is a certain sector who always push the new file icon rather than the file menu, when I tell them to click the file menu. These are the people who inspired the "office bubble" rather than a real menu.

Re:Confession time

[gbjbaanb]

I'm slightly ashamed to admit that he did teach me some things about word, I didn't already know.

Don't be ashamed - there's so much bloat in Office that there's TONS of stuff you still don't know is in there.

Re:Has RTF been fixed?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've had similar experiences.

The other week I went to work to find that OOo had eaten the company cat and taken a dump on our Microsoft approved discounted printer from HP for $99.00 see in store for details. Not only that, but it had also destroyed our DDS files in the co-processor.

I've become enlightened. Folks, I bought a discounted copy of the Latest Microsoft Office Suite for $180* from the Microsoft Store. I did the right thing by humanity.

*conditions apply, see in store for details.

Re:Is it worth it?

[Blakey Rat]

I "don't" really have anything "to reply to" in your post, but I just wanted to make sure somebody on "Slashdot" is mocking your insane use of quote "marks." "Consider" this a "public service."

Re:Nothing That New or Innovative...

[pyrrhonist]

But yes, a titanium-headed hammer would be stupid. Titanium also has poor surface hardness, so it would get dented really badly.

Right, no one would make those.