OpenOffice 3.2 Coming November – What’s New

By , Published October 21, 2009

OpenOffice is the default Office suite in Ubuntu, and most other Linux distros, and for good reason, too €“ it's more than an equal for Microsoft's all-dominant Microsoft Office suite.openoffice-logo-420x259

Version 3.2 will be released towards the end of November 2009. What will be new?

  • Speedier Startups
  • GTK integration Gnome
  • Encryption support for Microsoft Office files
  • Microsoft 2007 document support €“ including password protected files
  • 'notes' renamed 'comments'
  • Ability to add notes to presentation or drawing
  • Collaborate via comments
  • Keyboard shortcuts can now use 'ALT'.
  • Removes the limitation on the length of the password in ODF documents
  • Small changes to menu ordering in certain applications

You can find even more information on new features/improvements/bug fixes @ the Oo.o wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.2

Install

To install OpenOffice 3.2 beta you can download and run one of the following install scripts: -

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/openoffice.org/developer/install_scripts/

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • jason

    Anyone knows which version will be included in Karmic?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Version 3.1.1

  • http://www.FreezingMoon.org/ Dread Knight

    So OpenOffice is going qt instead of GTK+? Are you serious? :D
    That means KDE is the future, which didn’t had a decent Office suite and now it would have 2…

    • http://www.FreezingMoon.org/ Dread Knight

      I wouldn’t mind at all if Gnome and KDE would use QT4 both :P

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Whoops! My mistake! I’ve just been writing a post on KDE apps gnome users should use so i have QT4 on the brain!

      Oo.o continues to use whatever it has always used, but it adapts to GTK in gnome much, much better than it did before.

      • http://www.FreezingMoon.org/ Dread Knight

        Oh, I see :)

        • annoyedwithdreadknight

          DreadKnight quit being annoying with the KDE crap. I use both and even XFCE and IceWM if I want to. Leave people’s blogs in peace -_-

        • annoyedwithdreadknight

          DreadKnight quit being annoying with the KDE crap. I use both and even XFCE and IceWM if I want to. Leave people’s blogs in peace -_-

  • http://yosoybubuntu.blogspot.com/ Javier

    @jason:
    Karmic comes with OOo 3.1.1 BUT remember Canonical actually use Go-oo which has several improvements over the original OOo (features that OOo won’t have until 3.3 according to its roadmap). So I strongly recommend NOT to “update” to version 3.2 or you’ll probably lose more features than actually gain.

    • http://yann.universfantastiques.org/ Yann Dìnendal

      What kind of features?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      That’s actually a fair comment.

      If my post was a review and not just an “update” i’d mention that, but i seriously doubt many people are going to bother upgrading to 3.2 dev anyway.

  • Ben

    d0od, I’m very happy for you, and I’mma let you finish, but referring to new things you can do with notes directly after saying notes will henceforth be known as comments strikes me as a little jarring.

    Otherwise, cool beans. More ’07 support is always welcome. No matter how many times I tell them, my teammates will not give me a .doc instead of a .docx without being asked to convert. I can open them well enough to extract information now, which is cool, but I’d still like proper support. I’m also curious about this Gnome integration…

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Haha well spotted… sorta.

      In listing the features i can’t refer to notes as comments per se because comments are still called notes in the version people are used to; i can’t refer to a new feature in context when reviewing because the review is in present tense and “comments” are the name for notes in the future… if you get what i mean.

  • frank.grimes

    Does the 2007 document support include saving to that format? I know in 3.1 you can read 2007 but not make changes.

  • Anonymous

    GTK Integration? Does that mean it will no longer look like garbage? Plus, does that mean the menu’s will integrate with GlobalMenu? Sounds like a good update to me :)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I’m wondering that myself so i’m about to install it and find out :)

      • Anonymous

        Did you install it? Does it integrate much better now?

  • Fer

    The MOST important improvement for me is the support for OTF (Open Type Fonts). That is great and very long waited.

    • http://yann.universfantastiques.org/ Yann Dìnendal

      Wah! At last! Indeed, it’s the greatest improvement. :)

  • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

    That’s good news. OOo is the least aesthetically integrated app I have right now other than Chrome.