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| <h2>OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is ready for testing</h2> |
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| The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta |
| release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available. This beta release is |
| made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next |
| major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production |
| use at this stage. |
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| If you are a regular user of OpenOffice.org, here's a great opportunity |
| to help us make the next release the best ever. |
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| <h2>What's new in OpenOffice.org 3.0?</h2> |
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| The most immediately visible change to OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the new |
| "Start Centre", new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the |
| status bar. A closer look shows that 3.0 has a myriad of new features. |
| Notable Calc improvements include a new solver component; support for |
| spreadsheet collaboration through workbook sharing; and an increase to |
| 1024 columns per sheet. Writer has an improved notes feature and |
| displays of multiple pages while editing. There are numerous Chart |
| enhancements, and an improved crop feature in Draw and Impress. |
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| Behind the scenes, OpenOffice.org 3.0 will support the upcoming |
| OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, and is capable of opening files |
| created with MS-Office 2007 or MS-Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, |
| .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). This is in addition to read and write support for |
| the MS-Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.). |
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| OpenOffice.org 3.0 will be the first version to run on Mac OS X without |
| X11, with the look and feel of any other Aqua application. It introduces |
| partial VBA support to this platform. In addition, OpenOffice.org 3.0 |
| integrates well with the Mac OS X accessibility APIs, and thus offers |
| better accessibility support than many other Mac OS X applications. |
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| A more detailed guide to the features can be found at |
| <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html"> |
| http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html</a> |
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| <h2>Beta Availability</h2> |
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| OpenOffice.org 3 beta is immediately available in US English for |
| MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and OpenSolaris platforms from |
| <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta"> |
| http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta</a>. |
| This page also contains details |
| of where to find localized builds and language packs as they become |
| available. For more details, please consult the appropriate native |
| language project - see |
| <a href="http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html"> |
| http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html</a> |
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| Help us gathering bugs in May! |
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| In order to help us release OpenOffice.org 3.0 on schedule in September, |
| users of the beta release are encouraged to report any bugs, issues or |
| errors at |
| <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org"> |
| http://qa.openoffice.org</a>. |
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| If you would like to test just the new features, there is a list of test |
| cases by component at<br> |
| <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/TestcaseSpecifications/OpenOffice.org_3.0"> |
| http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/TestcaseSpecifications/OpenOffice.org_3.0</A> |
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| If you are nervous about reporting bugs through the formal bug reporting |
| system, you can simply email details to the user support mailing lists |
| <a href=" http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html"> |
| http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html</a> |
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| The developers look forward to receiving your feedback on this beta |
| release of OpenOffice.org! |
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| "2008 - the year of 3" |
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