Solveig Haugland ataca de nuevo ahora con su blog con un super interesante
articulo sobre OpenOffice.org 2.3 aqui:
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2007/10/summary-of-new-.html
Es un resumen de las nuevas cosas que trae OpenOffice.org 2.3, algo
interesante para mostrar a los clientes.
Subject: Summary of new features in OpenOffice.org 2.3
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:54:31 -0500
Here’s a summary of the features from the 2.3 new features list that I
considered the most useful or important to write about. This page
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/New_Features_2.3
about the new features is an excellent guide, as well.
General
This is convenient for anyone who prints to multiple printers, all over the
world. You can load or ignore the printer settings for your documents. This
means you don’t end up accidentally printing to the printer in building 4
which
is on the opposite side of the country, just because you were on a
business trip
there last week and that’s where you last printed your document.
If your document isn’t wider than the OpenOffice.org window, then it will
be
centered in the window, not left-aligned.
Lots of locale information was added, for locations such as Tagalog,
Frisian,
and Hausa.
Writer and Web
The HTML editor now has a preview feature. Choose File > Preview in Web
Browser
and the document opens in the default browser.
I love this feature. You know how when you get a hyperlink but then want to
retype it or reformat it, but clicking on it takes you to the target of
the link?
No more. You can select hyperlinked text all you want; you now have to Ctrl
Click to open a link. This is very nice.
The notes say that there is a new compatibility option on Tools > Options >
OpenOffice.org Writer > Compatibility: Do Not Justify Alignment in Lines
Ending
With Manual Line Break. However, I’m mentioning this because I couldn’t
see it.
The illustration shows the compatibility options that are there.
When you open the Styles and Formatting window (Format > Styles and
Formatting),
you can set what kinds of styles you wanted to see: Applied, Custom,
Automatic,
etc. Previously, you had to reset this every time you opened a new
document or
re-opened OpenOffice.org. Now, thankfully, that category will stick. The
setting
is saved per application. However, the choice you make for Paragraph,
Character,
Frame, List, or Page doesn’t stick.
When you right-click on text, you used to see Default as one of the
options. Now
you see Default Formatting, which is clearer. (Default Formatting is a
great way
to just clear out any extraneous formatting and apply the default style to
the
selected item.) This is a very nice feature regardless of the text; for one
thing, it’s the best way to remove the hotlink from a URL.
A new export filter lets you export to MediaWiki format. Choose File >
Export
and select MediaWiki in the file format list.
Calc
This is a very, very smart change. By default, the print options for Calc
are
now set to Print Only Selected Sheets and Suppress Output of Empty Pages.
If the
Print Only Selected Sheets option is enabled, the Calc page preview shows
only
the displayed sheet and the message “There is nothing to print.” To change
these
options, choose Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Calc > Print, or choose
File >
Print and click the Options button.
Here’s another very smart change that will screw up all my documentation.
:) The
SUM icon on the main Calc toolbar has changed. Now you can select the
range of
numbers to add, click the SUM icon, and get the total in the first cell
below
the selected range. Phew. But if you liked it the old way, it still works
that
way, too.
Graphics can be linked to macros. This should help with Excel
compatibility.
The Excel export filter now handles the cotangent functions COT, ACOT,
COTH, and
ACOTH.
Calc now supports inline matrix/array constants in formulas. An inline
array is
surrounded by curly braces '{' and '}'. Elements can be each a number
(including
negatives), a logical constant (TRUE, FALSE) or a literal string. See this
link
for more detail.
http://sc.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=230
You can now use dynamic ranges, rather than absolute ranges defined with
$, in
lists in Data Validity. Choose Data > Validity, and under the Criteria tab
select Cell Range from the list.
The GETPIVOTDATA function returns a result value from a DataPilot table,
so it
can be used in a cell formula.
Mail Merge, Databases, and Forms
The infamous checkbox on the print message when you print a mail merge
document,
Do Not Show Warning Again, is gone. Phew! See this blog
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/10/how_to_get_the_.html
for why that caused problems.
This is nice. When you choose File > Print with a mail merge document, in
the
Mail Merge window, you can choose to save the document as separate
documents or
as one document.
Unfortunately, in Base there is still no File > Export or File > Import
feature.
File > Export does appear, but it’s dimmed.
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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