Hi Louis - Thanks for this update. I had recently very enthusiastically downloaded the "then" latest version of open office suite of products - fully aware that I will have to spend time to reorient myself away from MS Office suite of products. However, I was disappointed to find out that some simple features, for example, pivot tables were missing and this forced me back to MS Office.
When do we expect to have these functionalities built in? With warm regards Lovesh Muscat, Oman -----Original Message----- From: Louis Suarez-Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:25 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 2.1 Is Here 2006-12-12 All, The OpenOffice.org Community are proud to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.1, the latest version of the leading open-source office suite. There are a number of important new features for users in this release. The presentations application, Impress, now supports multiple monitors, with the presenter choosing where to display the presentation. The Calc spreadsheet has an improved HTML export capability, using styles to better recreate in a browser the appearance of the original spreadsheet. The database application, Base, has a number of enhancements, including improved support for Microsoft's Access product. The popular Quickstarter is now available for GNU/Linux users as a GTK application. OpenOffice.org's impressive language support is enhanced with five more localisations. However, OpenOffice.org is not simply a great productivity suite for end users. OpenOffice.org software technology is also available for developers, systems integrators, and others to use in their own applications. OpenOffice.org 2.1 extends support for version control to extensions, simplifying the management of packages for those developing extensions. Version 2.1 is the third release of OpenOffice.org in 2006, and reflects the Community's commitment to making new features available to users every few months. To help make this as smooth as possible, OpenOffice.org 2.1 also includes an improved on-line notifier, which checks regularly and informs users if a new version is available (users may choose to disable this option at any time). OpenOffice.org 2.1 is now available for download free of charge. * <http://download.openoffice.org/2.1/> If the download servers are busy, there is an alternative legal peer- to-peer (P2P) system. * <http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2/> Alternatively, OpenOffice.org Community Distributors supply the software on CD-ROM in many countries. * <http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/? OpenOffice.org's Native Language project can advise on the availability of translations. * <http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html> About OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.orgR. OpenOffice.org's leading edge software technology (UNO) is also available for developers, systems integrators, etc to use in OpenOffice.org extensions or in their own applications. OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 70 languages. OpenOffice.org software is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial. The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor. Further information about OpenOffice.org products: The OpenOffice.org office suite for users:< http://www.openoffice.org/ product/> OpenOffice.org Universal Network Objects (UNO) for developers:< http://udk.openoffice.org/> OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers: <http:// api.openoffice.org/> Press Contacts Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 John McCreesh (UTC +0h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Worldwide Marketing Contacts <http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
