Martin Notes » open office 3 beta http://martinnotes.com Open source in real life Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:44:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 OpenOffice 3 beta http://martinnotes.com/2008/06/23/openoffice-3-beta/ http://martinnotes.com/2008/06/23/openoffice-3-beta/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:57:01 +0000 Martin http://martinnotes.com/?p=26 I’ve been using OpenOffice 3 beta for a while now and I must say it’s much better then 2.4. I contains some of the features I’ve always liked in MS Office, like comments at the side of the document and language selection. Both were pretty crappy in 2.4… I also have the feeling that the MS Word file format support has improved a bit, at least the bug that a document becomes read only when you add an index (how do you build a bug like that???) has been fixed.

There is still room for improvement. For example: it’s still not possible to accept changes with the right mouse key. This would really make merging changes much easier then it is now.

I hope that the support of the ODF format in MS Office will come fast, then I can just send ODF document to my collegues and clients. That would really make life much better, finally kill that idiotic MS Word format!

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