Open Office 3.0 is now available for download. Open Office 3.0 comes after a three year of development. Open Office 3.0 now supports the collaborative features so that multiple users can now view and edit the same document. Open Office 3.0 also solved it’s interoperability with OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 file format and Office 2007 OOXML. One of the features that I liked most about the Open Office 3.0 is the ability to read Microsoft Office 2007 or 2008 in .docx, .xlsx, .pptx or other new formats. OpenOffice 3.0 can also read and write documents in standardized OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2.

Open Office 3.0 comes with a lot of enhancements including word processing, presentation, spreadsheets, graphics, databases and other applications, reliability and performance improvements. Open Office 3.0 now can display multiple pages while editing this feature help it’s users to utilize the complete size of their screens. Open Office 3.0 workbooks now supports 1024 columns in each spreadsheet and sharing options makes it really make it more useful for it’s users to easily collaborate on same spreadsheet.

The Mac version of Open Office 3.0 partially supports Visual Basic for writing customs code and macros. With this new version of Open Office 3.0, it becomes a complete native OS X application unlike it’s previous version where Open Office relied on OS X’s X11 graphical environment for UNIX applications that resulted in relatively slow performance and had a non-standard user interface. Integrated Aqua make it a complete Mac Application.

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