RC 5 of OpenOffice 3.2. finished

The new version of the free OpenOffice.org office program is nearing completion. The developers have made to increase compatibility with Microsoft Office. The program starts to be accelerated.

The free office suite OpenOffice.org is probably the only serious competitor for the Office program from Redmond. Not only for home users, even for small companies OpenOffice.org is popular. To date, over 100 million worldwide have downloaded the software prospective. In Germany, the office program is said to have a market share of approximately 21 percent.

Version 3.2 brings many new features
The new version 3.2. likely the success of OpenOffice.org even higher standard. Some media have reported that the 3.2 version is already finished. On the website, however, is offered at cut-off date, only the Release Candidate 5 to download.

Screenshot of Calc, the spreadsheet of OpenOffice.org (image: OpenOffice.org)

The release list, but leads to even the new features and improvements. Thus, the Calc spreadsheet and word processor Writer will start much faster.

Other New Features

• The format ODF will better support

• The compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007Documents has been improved

• The AutoCorrect feature in Writer can be pinned permanently during a meeting added words

• Many new features in Tabellenkalkulaton Calc

• The drawing program Draw and the Impress presentation program provide a comment function

For a complete list of new features and enhancements can be found on the website of OpenOffice.org (see References).

The software is available for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Solaris.
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