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OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.0 RELEASED
A new splash screen upon launch
Support for sharing Excel workbooks
Support for Excel sheets with up to 1024 columns
A solver component for solving optimization problems
Better polished crop and drawing tools
The display of multiple Writer pages while editing
Inclusion of Office commenting / change tracking in the document margin
Some support for Visual Basic macros
Enhanced support for [...]
Solidifying our Software Freedom
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced a “reboot” of its High Priority Projects
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The FSF high-priority projects list serves to foster the development of projects that are important for increasing the adoption and use of free software and free software operating systems. The projects on this list are neither run, controlled, nor maintained by the FSF, [...]
Creating Nifty Reports Using OpenOffice.org Built-in Tools
Using the Sun Report Builder extension (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/reportdesign), you can create rather sophisticated reports. For example, the miniInvoices solution (http://code.google.com/p/writertools/downloads/list)) relies on this extension for printing single invoices and generating all sorts of reports. The problem with using a separate extension for adding functionality is that it makes the entire database solution less portable. Move the [...]
Adding Visual Word Count to OpenOffice.org
Although OpenOffice.org has a competent word count feature, it lacks one nifty trick: it can show you how many words and characters you’ve already written, but it won’t tell you how close you are to the target. Fortunately, you can write a simple OpenOffice.org macro that not only shows you how many percent of the [...]
