ghacks Technology News

Open Office 3.2 Beta


Open Office 3.2 Beta has been released yesterday which gives users and developers a preview of the final Open Office 3.2 release which is slated for a December release. A list of changes and additions to this version of the Open Source Microsoft Office alternative has been posted at the official website. The list format is hard to read but contains many links pointing to documentation containing details about each feature. The feature list is divided into chapters for specific components like charts, database access or spreadsheets of the Office suite. Some of the most notable additions and changes in Open Office 3.2 Beta are listed below.

  • The Bubble Chart is available as new chart type now
  • Keyboard shortcut configuration dialog now supports “ALT” modifier
  • Removed the password length limitation in ODF document password creation dialog
  • Menu items display changed
  • Support for PS-OpenType fonts
  • Impress and Draw now support comments (formerly known as sticky notes) to support collaboration
  • More filter criteria in “Standard Filter” dialog
  • Use System Credentials for Web Site Authentication
  • “Notes” feature renamed to “Comments”
  • Encryption support for “Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP” filter.

Users who are interested in testing Open Office 3.2 Beta can head over to the official Open Office website to download the beta version. The beta is available for all supported operating systems and languages. The list of changes and additions implemented in Open Office 3.2 are available at the release notes page.




Tags: , ,
Categories: Linux, Mac, Windows, software


Read Related Posts


15 Responses to “Open Office 3.2 Beta”

  1. Dhanasekaran says:

    However open office provides what exactly windows office provides, the speed of these applications are comparitively not equal. Micosoft wins…

  2. Doc says:

    @Dhanasekaran: If your PC is old enough that you can tell the difference between OpenOffice and MS Office (Micosoft?), then it is definitely time to upgrade your computer. I’ve used both office suites (in their then-current versions) on everything from Pentium II computers, to dual-core AMD64s, and the difference in speed is negligible if your computer is fast enough to run them. Price, security (MS Genuine Advantage phoning home, security updates needed every month)…Microsoft is a big loser!

    • Dhanasekaran says:

      try to open large files with file extention ‘docx’. I still wait for 1minute to laod in OpenOffice. I can see you when its simple and small files with doc file extension. So get great deal wth that…

  3. scott says:

    ms office 2007 beats open office. It has way more features and is well polished. Open office looks like ms office 95, it getting better every release, i like it, its just not there yet.

  4. Charles H. Gund says:

    Finally, opentype fonts support!

  5. jaltacol says:

    Otra alternativa de Office libre es Lotus Symphony… Hay más información en el sitio de Lotus:

    IBM Lotus

    Buscarlo en el Search de su página y descargarlo!

    This comment was originally posted on Bitelia

  6. miki says:

    the different between are huge one of them is FREE ;)

  7. Camelot says:

    Pasito a pasito se parece más a… bueno ya saben. Como muchos estoy esperando que salga la versión final.

    Por cierto, Lotus Symphony está basado en OpenOffice. Así que no sé hasta que punto es realmente una “alternativa”.

    This comment was originally posted on Bitelia

  8. Jorge Suarez says:

    Bueno, está basado en OpenOffice.org, pero aparenta bastante diferente, al menos en la interfaz. http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/product_ss_wpe

    This comment was originally posted on Bitelia

  9. Daniel says:

    mientras sean buenos y gratuitos da lo mismo cualquiera… ;)

    This comment was originally posted on Bitelia

  10. Arturo Munive says:

    Pues, se da el mismo fenomeno de Las distribuciones basadas en debian como ubuntu, y las distribuciones basadas en ubuntu etc etc
    Supongo que es saludable no crees?

    This comment was originally posted on Bitelia

  11. haldrik says:

    OpenOffice.org le ha salvado la carrera a muchas empresas emergentes, es una gran solución de excelente calidad, ya compite, incluso arregla problemas con inserciones de imágenes que el mismo MS Word descuadra, luego las abres otra vez en Word y ya puedes trabajar bien.

    Faltan cosas interesantes como el hecho que venga con muchas mas plantillas para documentos y presentaciones, con una pequeña galería también y con el diccionario por defecto par el idioma que escogiste eso si es tontada tener que agregarlo despues.

    This comment was originally posted on Bitelia

  12. [Benja] says:

    Esperare hasta el día del lanzamiento para probarlo, y así como muchos otros OOo me ha salvado en incontables ocasiones.

    This comment was originally posted on Bitelia

Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. [...] buzz is out about the upcoming 3.2 release, with bits and pieces about it in places like gHacks – Open Office 3.2 Beta has been released yesterday which gives users and developers a preview of [...]

  2. [...] gHacks Leer más: beta, descargar, OpenOffice, OpenOffice 3.2 beta Enviar a Twitter Compartir en [...]

Leave a Reply   Follow Ghacks   Subscribe To Comment Rss

© 2005-2009 Ghacks.net. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - About Us