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OpenOffice 3.0 Is Here

by Brandon Tanner
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Apparently they crashed their servers this morning due to all the demand. But it looks like you can finally download it now. I've been using the 3.0 beta for a little while and it rocks - lots of cool new features, and a new "paint job" to boot!


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  • Profile picture of the author Greg Cooksley
    Hey Brandon,

    Thanks for the heads up on this....

    Just a quick question - do you use Microsoft office as well?

    Regards

    Greg
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    • Profile picture of the author tj
      Originally Posted by Greg Cooksley View Post

      Hey Brandon,

      Thanks for the heads up on this....

      Just a quick question - do you use Microsoft office as well?

      Regards

      Greg

      Just downloading the new version - till now w/o problems. I use both versions MSO and OO .

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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      Originally Posted by Greg Cooksley View Post

      Hey Brandon,

      Thanks for the heads up on this....

      Just a quick question - do you use Microsoft office as well?

      Regards

      Greg
      Microsoft Office? What's that?

      I've used it before but it's been a few years. Ever since OpenOffice added all the PDF functionality I've used it almost exclusively for writing/ebooks, etc. It has its strengths and weaknesses, but overall I like it better than M Office.
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      • Profile picture of the author imvideos
        and another thanks Brandon (cool name, is my sons)
        I love Open Office and use it nearly every day!

        Stevie
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      • Profile picture of the author Greg Cooksley
        Originally Posted by Brandon Tanner View Post

        Microsoft Office? What's that?

        I've used it before but it's been a few years. Ever since OpenOffice
        added all the PDF functionality I've used it almost exclusively
        for writing/ebooks, etc. It has its strengths and weaknesses,
        but overall I like it better than M Office.
        Thanks Brandon,

        And from a compatibility point of view, do you have any problems
        opening up MS Office documents that someone sends to you, especially
        Excel docs?

        Regards

        Greg
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        • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
          Originally Posted by Greg Cooksley View Post

          Thanks Brandon,

          And from a compatibility point of view, do you have any problems
          opening up MS Office documents that someone sends to you, especially
          Excel docs?

          Regards

          Greg
          Greg,

          I don't receive many Excel files from others, so I probably wouldn't be the best person to answer that question. I do receive a moderate amount of doc files from others though, and usually they look good, but every now and then I'll get one where the formatting will be a little off and will need a minor tweak or two.

          That's in reference to OO 2.x of course. Haven't had time to test out the compatibility of 3.0 yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author AT-Copy
    Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't heard. I used Open Office for a few years but now have gone back to Office. I wouldn't mind giving it another go though.
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    • Profile picture of the author granola
      Thanks for the heads up Brandon!

      I'm a huge fan of Open Office but I still use Microsoft Office as well.

      It's not dl'ing for me at the moment, I'll try again later.

      Charles
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  • Profile picture of the author lgibbon
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    Thanks Brandon,
    Looks like they are still having problems.
    Think I'll wait till the morning when you guys
    will be tucked up in bed.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Rogers
      Nice. If I didn't get MS Office so cheap through the MS Home Use Program, I probably wouldn't bother with it at all.

      John
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark McWilliams
    Thanks about that!

    Attempting to download it now, and so far (Touch wood!) everything seems to be going fine. Well maybe appart from the fact that I've got about 40 minutes left until it complete it's download, guess there's still a few thousand people still trying to download it!

    Thanks
    Mark
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    • Profile picture of the author Chuck Evans
      Originally Posted by Mark McWilliams View Post

      Thanks about that!

      Attempting to download it now, and so far (Touch wood!) everything seems to be going fine. Well maybe appart from the fact that I've got about 40 minutes left until it complete it's download, guess there's still a few thousand people still trying to download it!

      Thanks
      Mark

      Mark,

      40 MORE minutes, are there hamsters dragging the files through the pipe!

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      • Profile picture of the author Mark McWilliams
        Originally Posted by Chuck Evans View Post

        40 MORE minutes, are there hamsters dragging the files through the pipe!
        PMSL!

        I *think* it was because I hit run, and not save!

        Anyway though, it's up and running!

        Thanks
        Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark McWilliams
    Downloaded and installed, it looks pretty neat!...

    I'll get around to using it tomorrow me thinks, let's see how many things I can crack out of it!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
      I had to dump OO a few days ago. Wasn't playing nice with the Mac. I kept getting this time out errora and then it just stopped opening.

      I guess it was because of X11 application we got to run in order to use OO. A bit of a pain. I don't have MS Office on the mac. People give MS Office crap but I prefer it over OO. And I've been using OO for a year now on my MacBook Pro.

      I've been using Google Docs to write my new report and they made a lot of improvements. You can easily export as PDF and add images now. But I'll give OO another shot now that they have this new version. See if it works. Thanks for the heads up on this release.
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  • Profile picture of the author Louismz
    Microsoft Word 2007 does everything I need to create documents. I personally think it's easier to create professional looking ebooks with Word then Open Office. The smart art graphics along with all the templates you get with Word are awesome.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
      Okay I just installed it with the Mac and WOW! What a difference. No more freaking X11 app to run. They must have integrated it or something. Much, much better than the older version. Thanks again for the heads up.

      P.S. it took 11 minutes to install so the OSX Intel download link must not be as popular as the Windows one.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gerry Humphrey
      I have OpenOffice that you can download probably much faster that you can get it from the OO site as it stored on a S3 powered dropbox.

      If you want the link, as I will only keep it online for a day or two, please PM.

      Windows OpenOffce 3.0 English version only!

      If you would prefer to grab it from the OO site I really recommend using something like GetRight or Lightning Download as the official sites are often timing out.

      Heck, I recommend using those for just about any large download.. saves a lot of time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Talltom1
    I'm just curious - haven't been able to access the website. What features did they upgrade on this new version?
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