spinynorman Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 OpenOffice 3.2 - now available for Windows, Mac and Linux - boasts faster start-up times than before. But the really big news is that now - finally - this open-source suite offers full compatibility with files created using Microsoft's Office 2007. Review at The Register. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 Interesting, and if it does get closed off, or anything because of the Oracle takeover, there is always Lotus Symphony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Is it likely to come through the repos????? Unfortunately I need to submit my current uni assignments in Office 2007 format I can't see it in the testing repo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 You can always install the binary edition. Or, you can also use go-openoffice which boasts even greater MS compatibility. http://go-oo.org/download/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 I've been using the 3.1.1, it came with mandi 2010 and itÅ› like they converted the Open Office in MS Office, damn it has almost all the tools and better I don't have to be finding buttons and lots of menus just for 1 thing, pretty handy the new Open Office, if I tested this and feel good, can't wait to have the 3,2 version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 You can always install the binary edition. Or, you can also use go-openoffice which boasts even greater MS compatibility. http://go-oo.org/download/ I haven't used go-openoffice. I changed to open office as I was sick of continually changing file formats...ie. Files I created under Windows 98 are now unreadable by the later Office programs. I am assuming that go-openoffice uses open file formats so I can access them in years to come?...I only need to be able to create MS file formats to send assignments through to the uni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 I only need to be able to create MS file formats to send assignments through to the uni.Ask them if they'll accept pdfs instead - in my experience creating an odt file in OpenOffice and exporting it as pdf is the most reliable way of providing it in a readable format and retaining access to the original document. I don't see what's this story about 2007 compatibility being new, as far as I've seen OpenOffice has been able to do this for years... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 Ask them if they'll accept pdfs instead - in my experience creating an odt file in OpenOffice and exporting it as pdf is the most reliable way of providing it in a readable format and retaining access to the original document. I don't see what's this story about 2007 compatibility being new, as far as I've seen OpenOffice has been able to do this for years... :unsure: You're correct, but if you save it, close it and open it, all the formatting gets screwed up. Whenever someone sends me .doc or .docx or whatever, I save it in OpenOffice format because then generally everything is OK for the future. Even now it still screws up the formatting, but I haven't used this supposed go-openoffice, so I don't know if it's any better or not. I can't see how it can be, what have they got access to that OpenOffice cannot do themselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 I can't see how it can be, what have they got access to that OpenOffice cannot do themselves? It's a Novel sponsored project and there's stuff in it that has not been included in vanilla OpenOffice because Sun/OOo community will not include it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 Go-oo has plenty of stuff which is not included in vanilla Ooo. Some addons are important, while some other, like mono integration, aren't (at least not for me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 On the Go-Openoffice web site, it states: Mandriva Mandriva provides Go-OO in their repositories. But I can't find it anywhere! :woops: Going to Go-Openoffice download page, there is of course many .rpm files. Which ones should I load? I tried loading a bunch, but I was missing at least one, as I could get Go-Openoffice to open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 The openoffice which is stock in Mandriva 2010.0 is actually compiled from the Go-OO branch... but I do not know if all extras are compiled in. http://www2.mandriva.com/linux/features/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 OK, thanks! I had it installed all along and didn't even know it! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 OK, thanks! I had it installed all along and didn't even know it! :D Yeah, I been through that! I asked around on IRC to learn that though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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