Features

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New features planned for OpenOffice.org

Intro

This page is a roadmap for the features planned in future OpenOffice.org releases.

For older releases, see the archives.

Caution:
The items listed here are under continuous development and the dates are therefore subject to change!

Project-Specific Wiki-Pages

Calc

See also the Calc Usability Activities page on this wiki.

Current Release

Features for the 2.4 Release (March 2008)

For a comprehensive list, see the New Features in OOo 2.4 page.

Writer

Calc

Impress

Chart

Base

General

Planned Features for 3.0 Release (mid-October 2008)

General

Performance Improvements

  • Drawing Engine

Writer

  • new Notes2 module for displaying notes in the margins
  • Office 12 (.docx) import filter
  • ODF documents' metadata editor
  • Preview of hyperlinks inside the document

Calc

Impress

Extensions

For end users

For developers

  • API enhancements
  • GUI enhancements - The GUI should be redesigned to get a more modern look. A good guideline is the new IBM Lotus Symphony that uses dynamic panels. This is better than MS Office's "ribbon", at least for documents, because it saves space on the top (normally documents are vertical).
  • Option page

Various

  • Better VBA? [1]
  • Windows_Vista Enhancements:
    • new File Dialog
    • visualization of Meta data in Explorer
  • Web services
    • Web Services wizard?
  • OpenOffice.org Repackaging
    • Repackaging step one [2]

Planned Features for 3.1 Release (March 2009)

  • Arabic
  • High Document Fidelity (AntiAliasing of Drawing Object and optimized graphic primitives)
  • Improved packaging, package pools
  • New template dialog and template repository
  • user data/feedback extention


Writer

  • overline text
  • transparent selection
  • reply to existing notes
  • search inside notes
  • RichText Import/Export of notes for Word 97/2003/XP files
  • Japanese reconversion
  • Bibliographic - meta data support for text objects in Writer in 3.1


Base

  • SQL syntax highlighting
  • MySQL integration


Impress

  • Zoomslider for Draw and Impress

Planned Feature for 3.2 Release (September 2009)

Planned Features for 3.x Release

  • XForms Enhancements
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