Comments on: Review of the New OpenOffice 3 beta

By: Jack Brown

Jack Brown — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:57:40 +0000

I have to agree with previous comments OO is just not as good a Office 2007.
Not far off but not quite there. The UI needs to be improved the office 97 style should be long gone. I don’t mean copying the office ribbon I mean going one step better. People are quite fickle if OO get the same or greater feature set that Office and if the UI is prettier then people will move in their masses. Its a shame as I believe this is the only block preventing Linux becoming the OS of choice.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:42:06 +0000

You think it took long to figure out, well let me just ask this, how long did it take you to figure out MS Office? Just a question and I’ve had no problems, its the best free office suite available in my opinion. Of course its not as good for writing essays and stuff, but its just as good, if not better for certain other things, say science pracs for example. Just what I think…

By: pandu

pandu — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:04:44 +0000

I already download OO 3.0 beta, and also do : sudo dpkg -i *.deb at my ubuntu Hardy Heron, normally the shortcut of my OO will placed at my menu but it don’t, so what should i do to add the shortcut to menu?

By: nissi

nissi — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:08:52 +0000

I have open office 3 beta (file JAR) how to install in windowx.

By: runbei

runbei — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:54:46 +0000

I used OpenOffice 2 to format a 300-page book, and I can tell you, it was hell. The OO user interface is a flawless example of design by committee. I believe the underlying engine is just fine – I’ve experienced few crashes with OO, but it’s deeply flawed for production formatting work. I spent countless hours merely finding out HOW to do simple formatting (add headers, format them for facing pages, create page styles, blah blah). If I were a company or an end user billing for time, I would never, ever use or recommend OO. Just check the keyboard customization page – it looks like it was thrown together by enterprise IT techies who had far more pressing things to do. OO – yuck. My next book will be formatted with LaTeX!

By: missingmanila

missingmanila — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:52:34 +0000

great review dude.

By: IP

IP — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:03:25 +0000

Really interesting. IMO, “import files from Microsoft Office 2007″ is the most relevant feature. However there are some things i think should be corrected about importing .doc files (not talking about .docx as it is not yet ready). Being able to work with .doc files the same way as Micro$oft does I think is the best way to bring those users to the OpenOffice world. For this reason i think it is important the look of open office too (I don’t care about it but most users do).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:14:38 +0000

I have used OOo 3 beta in spanish and have no problems so far. Actually it is great that the language of each section can be different and it is noted on the information bar. Double clicking allows to change the language to use the right spellchecker. Maybe is OK because I set the default as spanish, but I have worked with documents in english and had no problem either.

By: sileNT

sileNT — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:54:44 +0000

@Hans: When writing in Polish or German, spell checking works just fine. What’s so different in Spanish or French that makes them impossible to work with in OpenOffice?

By: Danilo

Danilo — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:41:34 +0000

But, don’t you like the new features that are coming out soon on the next stable release? It is their first beta from what I can tell.

Unfortunately I haven’t tested much in other languages (although my native language is Portuguese).