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After one day of The world’s first Document Freedom Day, 26 March 2008 open office 2.4 was released which has minor bug fixes and new features, i chose some of them.

General

• Custom icons for toolbars are imported
• Control password-storing with a master password
• Warning if document is from a newer ODF
• PDF documents: relative links, document references, PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1) supported, and cross-document link behavior options
• DejaVu font is now default instead of BitStream Vera

Localisation

• Entries for 10 languages added

Base / DBA

• Support for Access 2007 (.accdb files)

Calc

• Convert text to columns: with this feature CSV data inside cells can be transformed into columns directly
• Columns and rows in spreadsheet can be moved with drag and drop
• Enter key returns to the column where the input started, one row below
• Formula input: “+” and “-” can also be used to start

Chart

• Reverse axes possible
• Bars on different axes displayed next to each other
• Data point label: display both value and percentage
• Data label: display each part in a separate line
• Labels on pie segments: avoiding overlapping

Draw

• Navigation (tab) order of page objects
• PDF export: page names as bookmark

Impress

• Navigation (tab) order of page objects
• Thrilling 3D effects in slide transitions
• Export slide names as PDF bookmarks
• Easier to insert background picture

Writer

• Selecting rectangular region of text
• Spell checking: easier selecting of the language
• Insert&Insert Object toolbar redesign – Writer
• Printing of hidden text can be turned on
• Shortcuts added for paragraph style Heading 4, Heading 5 and Textbody

Open Office is a cross platform Office suite which support multi documents formats the open ones, and the Microsoft ones. As of the 2.0.3 release, OpenOffice.org changed its release cycle from 18-months to releasing updates, feature enhancements and bug fixes every three months, to download this new release go here.