Features

New Features planned for OpenOffice.org

The items and dates listed here are under development and may change !

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Calc

See also the Calc Usability Activities page on this wiki.

Planned Features for 2.4 Release

see also Feature_Freeze_Testing_2.4

• Chart
  • Display Trendline equations (GullFOSS article, OOoNinja article)
  • Scale and Intervals in Chart
    • Reverse direction of axis
    • Logarithmic scale
    • Axis at
    • Number Format for Data Labels
    • Display both, the Value and the Percentage
    • Flexible Placement of Data Labels
    • Best Fit Data Label Positioning for Pie Charts
  • Options for Bar Charts
    • Show Bars Attached to Different Axes Side-by-side (GullFOSS article, OOoNinja article)
    • Spacing (gap width)
    • Overlap
  • Article: Chart2 features in 2.4 (this wiki)
  • Article: New Chart features in OpenOffice.org 2.4 (GullFOSS)

• Base
  • views in HSQLDB database can be edited
  • property browser: query designer now also available for list box content
  • property browser: query designer also available for "native" SQL commands
  • Base now supports also MS Access 2007 files (*.accdb)

• Calc
  • Separate zoom per sheet
  • Convert text to columns
  • Move, copy, and link cells using drag and drop

• Writer
  • Block selection
  • Support for backward references in Find & Replace
  • New ways to change language for spell check

• Impress
  • Thrilling 3D slide transitions using OpenGL

• General
  • Relative links now available in PDF export filter, plus other features added.
  • PDF/A export
  • Create relative links in PDFs
  • Convert document references in PDF targets

Planned Features for 3.0 Release

• OpenDocument:
  • ODF 1.2 Specification
  • ODF formula specification
  • ODF Toolkit: installation set, aka ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Packaging_Modularization
  • ODF Toolkit: Java tools for odf
• Bibliographic
  • Basic API & UNO support for bibliographic enhancements
  • New field type to support formatted text
  • Bibliographic enhancements Stage 2

• Performance Improvements
  • Threading Framework, see Effort/Revise_OOo_Multi-Threading
  • Drawing Engine

• Impress
  • Office 12 (.pptx) Import Filter
  • Table support in Impress
  • Presenter Screen

• Calc
  • Office 12 (.xlsx) Import Filter
  • Compliance with ODF formula specification
  • GETPIVOTDATA function

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

• Extensions:
  • 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

• Better VBA? [1]

• MacOSX Aqua Port

• 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.x Release

• XForms Enhancements

Latest Updates

Features for 2.3 Release (September 2007)

• New Chart2 Module
• Java GUI installation wizard
• Report Designer
• QA List of new feature is Feature_Freeze_Testing_2.3
• Marketing List of new Features New_Features_2.3

Features for 2.2.1 Release (June 2007)

• BugFix Release only, no features planned.

Features for 2.2 Release (March 2007)

see also Feature_Freeze_Testing_2_2_0

• SoC: SQLite driver
• Extensions can have online updates [3]
• OXT (Extension) integration with Windows, KDE, and GNOME.
• PDF Export update (eg. bookmarks in PDFs, default zoom) [4]
• Autokerning enabled by default for new documents [5]

Notable Bug Fixes

• Fix a large OSX crasher [6]
• Fix some focus issues [7]
• Fix importing some PivotTables [8]
• Privacy enhancements for UUID generation [9]

Longer List

Features for 2.1 Release (December 2006)

see also Feature_Freeze_Testing_21

• Application updates
  • Multiple monitor support for Impress
  • Improved Calc HTML export
  • Enhanced Microsoft Access support for Base
• Versioning of Extensions in the Extension Manager
• Translation and localization improvements
  • Added Gascon (gsc_FR) locale
  • Improved other localizations: Chinese, Czech, Slovenian
• Speed improvements
  • Writer Layout rendering
  • JPEG handling improvements
  • Importing of huge documents

Notable Bug Fixes

• Accessibility improvements
• Gtk Quickstarter fixes

Features for 2.0.4 Release (September 2006)

see also Feature_Freeze_Testing_204

• General
  • Automatic notification of updates
• System Integration
  • KDE settings integration
  • Support CUPS for printing on OS X
  • Netbeans Integration enhancements
  • Use MacOSX installer for X11 builds
• Application Updates
  • Export images directly out of Impress and Draw
  • PDF Security options on export
  • LaTeX export
  • Create reports from a native database query
• Extension Updates
  • Extended Dialog Editor to support binding of UNO Objects
  • Library export in Basic IDE
  • Support for extensions dependencies
• New locales
  • Fijian (fj_FJ)
  • Tigrigana (ti_ER)
  • Namibian (af_NA, en_NA)
  • Amharic Ethiopia (am_ET)
  • ...

Notable Bug Fixes

• PDF Export fixes
• Word Perfect import updates