Open Office v2.2 – a very important new release- now resolves numerous security breaches issues and introduces significant general and specific enhancements, such as…

• Enhanced display of text;
• In the Calc Module, Pivot Tables now have better support;
• The Base Module Several key improvements;
• The Mac version { X11} is now far more robust
• … plus numerous other enhancements!

Even if you already are using an older version of Open Office, it is highly recommended that you update your suite to the newest version.

Also, in the next major release of Open Office- OpenOffice.org has announced that they will be massively extending the power of the Base module {the Open Office data base application} with a new feature called Report Designer; based on an open-source reporting engine by Pentaho.

This will give Open Office users the flexibility to generate impressive business intelligence reports from multiple sources, including OLAP and XML, and save them using the OASIS Open Document format {.odt files}, as well as the ISO-authorized open-source ODF file format, plus others.

With proprietary applications, things can get very encumbering quickly, for the end users as well as the developers. Not so with the ultimate open-source solution and powerful alternative to the MS Office suite.

Open Office Suite Advantages

Unlike some office suites, the Open Office suite was not merely slapped together from a collection of separate pieces of software. It was engineered to be a completely streamlined office package, out the gate.

• All of the Open Office modules have a uniform look and layout;
• The Open Office suite adapts to your computer’s layout – change the look of your desktop, and Open Office will blend and match;
• Consistently use the same tools across the Open Office suite – for example, the tools you use to work with graphics within Writer are also found in Impress and Draw.
• This gives you the ultimate leverage of of learning each function once then use it throughout the entire Open Office suite, such as the ‘Styles and Formatting’ function;
• Don’t know exactly which application created a certain file? No problem- simply double click or File >> Open within any Open Office document, at any time, and the proper module will be launch;
• Enjoy macro-command power throughout the entire Open Office suite… switch an option in one package {e.g. the spelling-check option, etc.}, the change immediately takes place across all Open Office modules.
• And, because of this, info can be quickly and easily transferred throughout the entire Open Office suite;
• The default for all modules to save to, is the Internationally-accepted open-source standard, Open Document Template {.odt} file format- The ultimate in New World multiple cross-platform portability;
• Because all Open Office documents embrace this highly-popular XML based format, you’ll enjoy a substantial savings in disk space consumption {compared to the most common competing file formats} and you can now access your file information from within any .odt compliant application;
• Single installation- all six Open office modules are installed at the same time, and abide to the same open-source license- zero cost or royalties, ever… literally everything you’ll need in one mighty handy office suite;
• Feel confident knowing that the Open Office suite is reliability at it’s finest, considering it is powered by Sun Microsystems, is an ever-evolving community project spanning over 20 years, and was created from scratch to be a single integrated software experience…. What you want, exactly how you want it!
• Open Office utilizes a highly intuitive interface that is easy to learn, and uniform across the entire Open office suite, which means that it’s absolutely suitable for complete newbies… While at the same time allowing you to leverage what you do already know, via a compelling look and ‘feel’.
• Already have documents you’ve created using MS Office or other common office suites?
• Open Office can read MS Office files, as well as virtually all other popular office suite files, with a extremely impressive degree of accuracy- making the switch to the Open Office suite straight-away;
• OpenOffice.org has received reports in which Open Office users were actually able to to read files in which the origin application flagged as corrupt and unusable… Makes swapping multiple software files a breeze, and fully supports the highly-popular cross-platform .rtf format, as well!