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Turning to some of the enhancements made to the individual components of OpenOffice.org, Calc spreadsheet has received additional enhancements to its support for Microsoft file formats including improved support for Pivot Tables and the addition of several trigonometric functions. Base, the database component, has improved SQL editing functionality as well as a new "Queries within Queries" feature. Compatibility options for some database drivers, such as Oracle ODBC, have been improved. Impress, the presentations component, offers improvements in the handling of hidden slides which has been made more intuitive.
 
Turning to some of the enhancements made to the individual components of OpenOffice.org, Calc spreadsheet has received additional enhancements to its support for Microsoft file formats including improved support for Pivot Tables and the addition of several trigonometric functions. Base, the database component, has improved SQL editing functionality as well as a new "Queries within Queries" feature. Compatibility options for some database drivers, such as Oracle ODBC, have been improved. Impress, the presentations component, offers improvements in the handling of hidden slides which has been made more intuitive.
  
It is important to remember that OpenOffice.org is not just a software package, but is also a development and user community. One demonstration of this is the ability of third party developers to create extensions in a simple manner. Third party extensions can now be more closely integrated and features have been added to dramatically simplify the installation and updating of these. In addition, additional features have been added to assist those participating in the translation and localisation of OpenOffice.org.
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It is important to remember that OpenOffice.org is not just a software package, but is also a development and user community. One demonstration of this is the ability of third party developers to create extensions in a simple manner. Third party extensions can now be more closely integrated and features have been added to dramatically simplify the installation and updating of these. In addition, features have been added to assist those participating in the translation and localisation of OpenOffice.org.
  
 
In addition to being immediately available for download from the traditional download servers, OpenOffice.org is also available from an alternative legal Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Alternatively, OpenOffice.org Community Distributors supply the software on CD-ROM in many countries and native language translations will be available from their relevant communities.
 
In addition to being immediately available for download from the traditional download servers, OpenOffice.org is also available from an alternative legal Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Alternatively, OpenOffice.org Community Distributors supply the software on CD-ROM in many countries and native language translations will be available from their relevant communities.

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OpenOffice.org announces version 2.2

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The OpenOffice.org Community announces the release of OpenOffice.org 2.2, the latest version of the leading open-source office suite. With upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and database components, the free software package provides a leading office productivity solution for all major platforms today.


Location and Timestamp -- The OpenOffice.org Community are proud to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.2, the latest version of the leading open-source office suite.

OpenOffice.org 2.2 is the project's first release in 2007, and reflects the community's commitment to offering enhancements and new features on a regular basis.

In version 2.2, users will immediately notice the improvement in the quality of text display in all parts of OpenOffice.org. The reason for this is that the previously optional support for kerning, a technique to improve the appearance of text written in proportional fonts, has now been enabled by default. OpenOffice.org's unique pdf export function has also been enhanced with the addition of the optional creation of bookmarks feature and support for user-definable export of form fields.

Whilst OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 functions well on Microsoft's Windows Vista, version 2.2 makes use of some of the new cosmetic changes available in Vista, the new file dialogues being an example. For Apple Mac users, OpenOffice.org 2.2 now requires Mac OS X10.4 or later and the availability of X11.

Turning to some of the enhancements made to the individual components of OpenOffice.org, Calc spreadsheet has received additional enhancements to its support for Microsoft file formats including improved support for Pivot Tables and the addition of several trigonometric functions. Base, the database component, has improved SQL editing functionality as well as a new "Queries within Queries" feature. Compatibility options for some database drivers, such as Oracle ODBC, have been improved. Impress, the presentations component, offers improvements in the handling of hidden slides which has been made more intuitive.

It is important to remember that OpenOffice.org is not just a software package, but is also a development and user community. One demonstration of this is the ability of third party developers to create extensions in a simple manner. Third party extensions can now be more closely integrated and features have been added to dramatically simplify the installation and updating of these. In addition, features have been added to assist those participating in the translation and localisation of OpenOffice.org.

In addition to being immediately available for download from the traditional download servers, OpenOffice.org is also available from an alternative legal Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. Alternatively, OpenOffice.org Community Distributors supply the software on CD-ROM in many countries and native language translations will be available from their relevant communities.


About OpenOffice.org

The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org's leading edge software technology (UNO) is also available for developers, systems integrators, etc to use in OpenOffice.org extensions or in their own applications.

OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 70 languages. OpenOffice.org software is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial.

The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor.

Links

OpenOffice.org 2.2 may be downloaded free of charge from http://download.openoffice.org/

The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/
To learn more about the Community see http://about.openoffice.org/
The Native Language Project is at http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html

Further information about OpenOffice.org products:

Press Contacts

Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis@openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625 3843

John McCreesh (UTC +0h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
jpmcc@openoffice.org
+44 (0)7 810 278 540

Cristian Driga (UTC +0200)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
cdriga@openoffice.org
+40 7887 000 60

Worldwide Marketing Contacts

http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html

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