Oracle Openoffice.org 3.3 final is released, this release comes one day after the release of LibreOffice3.3. Openoffice3.3 features, New Custom Properties Handling, embedding of Standard PDF Fonts, New Narrow Font Family, increased Document Protection in Writer and Calc, Automatic Decimals Digits for “General” format in Calc, now openoffice support 1 Million Rows in a Spreadsheet, new Options for CSV (Comma Separated Value) Import in Calc, Insert Drawing Objects in Charts.
Some more features are:
– Hierarchical Axis Labels for Charts
– Improved Slide Layout Handling in Impress
– Manual Setting for Primary Key Support for Databases
– New Math Command ‘nospace’
– Common Search Toolbar
– New Easier to Use Print Interface
– Redesign of Thesaurus
– Resetting Text to the Default Language in Writer
– Text Rendering of Form Controls in Writer
– Changed Defaults for Charts
– Colored Sheet Tabs in Calc
– Adapt to Marked Selection for Filter Area in Calc
– Sort Dialog for DataPilot in Calc
More details about the OpenOffice.org release can be found on the OpenOffice.org 3.3 New Features page and in the release notes.
Installation:
You can download OpenOffice3.3 from the download Link:
{xtypo_download}Download OpenOffice 3.3{/xtypo_download}
– For Ubuntu and LinuxMint:
You can install OpenOffice 3.3 from PPA (Still not updated yet), open terminal and enter the following commands:
1- First add repositories :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openoffice-pkgs/ppa
2- Update repositories
sudo apt-get update
3- Install OpenOffice.org :
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
– If you are using Gnome Type the command:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-gnome
– If you are using Kde type the following:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-kde