OpenOffice 2.0 preview released (With Access clone)

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OpenOffice 2.0 preview released

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20293

Preview Pre-Review King of OSS Suites adds Access-clone


By Fernando Cassia: Sunday 19 December 2004, 10:43 "What a great time for
another hairball release from Microsoft. Most places have no budget for
training or anything else, yet we are all supposed to stop and wonder in
amazement at another worthless Office release" -Reader's comment on
Microsoft's "Office System 2003".

THE SUN-SPONSORED OpenOffice.org project based on open sourced StarOffice
code has released a preview of the upcoming OpenOffice 2.0 product. This
version touts better MS-Office loading and parsing, strict XML compliant
output, a new database program that mimics Microsoft's Access, and much
more. It's available for 32-bit Windows, Linux (x86), Sun Solaris x86, and
the traditional Solaris for Sparc. We used this opportunity to take this
pre-release "version 1.9.65", which will end up being 2.0, for a quick
spin.................................... more

Regards
Gordon
 
OpenOffice 2.0 preview released

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20293

Preview Pre-Review King of OSS Suites adds Access-clone


By Fernando Cassia: Sunday 19 December 2004, 10:43 "What a great time for
another hairball release from Microsoft. Most places have no budget for
training or anything else, yet we are all supposed to stop and wonder in
amazement at another worthless Office release" -Reader's comment on
Microsoft's "Office System 2003".

THE SUN-SPONSORED OpenOffice.org project based on open sourced StarOffice
code has released a preview of the upcoming OpenOffice 2.0 product. This
version touts better MS-Office loading and parsing, strict XML compliant
output, a new database program that mimics Microsoft's Access, and much
more. It's available for 32-bit Windows, Linux (x86), Sun Solaris x86, and
the traditional Solaris for Sparc. We used this opportunity to take this
pre-release "version 1.9.65", which will end up being 2.0, for a quick
spin.................................... more
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For more information on this build and where to file issues,
see the OpenOffice.org 2.0 codeline
[http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OpenOffice_org_trunk.html].

A Guide to New Features
[http://marketing.openoffice.org/2.0/featureguide.html] is
available in the marketing project.

Release Notes.
See http://development.openoffice.org/releases/1.9.m65_snapshot.html

Gordon
 
Gordon said:
OpenOffice 2.0 preview released

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20293
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I came across OpenOfficeConvert
<http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?s=0067b555d8f0679cf0f6d8e5c
bdbe3b4&showtopic=6635>

"If you are like me and have been using the Beta builds of openoffice
v2.0 you will be thrilled and excited to know that they have changed the
format a little bit. Soooo in light of this I have built a converter.
Give it a shot if you download the newest build of openoffice."
 
Gordon said:
OpenOffice 2.0 preview released

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20293

Preview Pre-Review King of OSS Suites adds Access-clone


By Fernando Cassia: Sunday 19 December 2004, 10:43 "What a great time for
another hairball release from Microsoft. Most places have no budget for
training or anything else, yet we are all supposed to stop and wonder in
amazement at another worthless Office release" -Reader's comment on
Microsoft's "Office System 2003".

THE SUN-SPONSORED OpenOffice.org project based on open sourced StarOffice
code has released a preview of the upcoming OpenOffice 2.0 product. This
version touts better MS-Office loading and parsing, strict XML compliant
output, a new database program that mimics Microsoft's Access, and much
more. It's available for 32-bit Windows, Linux (x86), Sun Solaris x86, and
the traditional Solaris for Sparc. We used this opportunity to take this
pre-release "version 1.9.65", which will end up being 2.0, for a quick
spin.................................... more

Regards
Gordon
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THANKYOU Gordon!
The only reason I kept Office97 pro installed on my pc was for Access.
So itching to get rid of it.
 
THANKYOU Gordon!
The only reason I kept Office97 pro installed on my pc was for Access.
So itching to get rid of it.
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I've got a number of friends who are in the same position. An Access
"clone" is the one thing they need to be able to dump Microsoft completely.

Gordon
 
WebWalker said:
Sound promising.
Anyone know the release date for the version 2.0 (final)?
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Sometime in late January to early February if all stays according to
plan....
 
WebWalker said:
Sound promising.
Anyone know the release date for the version 2.0 (final)?
Click to expand...

Sometime in late January to early February if all stays according to
plan....
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WOOHOOO
 
Gordon Darling said:
I've got a number of friends who are in the same position. An Access
"clone" is the one thing they need to be able to dump Microsoft
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completely.

I need one more thing: I have used the WordStar keyboard layout for 20
years. I cannot change and still keep up my facility on the keyboard. Is
there anyway to enable 2-key sequences in OpenOffice? Like Ctrl-Q+Ctrl-S for
cursor left.

If anybody can help on this I will be most grateful.

Bruce
 
Bruce Hoyt said:
completely.

I need one more thing: I have used the WordStar keyboard layout for 20
years. I cannot change and still keep up my facility on the keyboard. Is
there anyway to enable 2-key sequences in OpenOffice? Like Ctrl-Q+Ctrl-S
for
cursor left.

If anybody can help on this I will be most grateful.

Bruce
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does anyone know what I can get a fast server? All the servers that I tried
via are very slow :-(
 
This is Gordon Darling for forever:
I've got a number of friends who are in the same position. An Access
"clone" is the one thing they need to be able to dump Microsoft completely.
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Things I still miss on OpenOffice:

- Solver tool for spreadsheet
- More "add-ons" like Excel has

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2. HLT - does nothing, doesn't increase PC
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This is Gordon Darling for forever:


Things I still miss on OpenOffice:

- Solver tool for spreadsheet
- More "add-ons" like Excel has
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Have to agree. Whilst the core functions of OpenOffice are advancing
rapidly there is still a lack of the "bells & whistles" that come with MS
Office. Extra fonts, templates, clip art, etc , etc.

Regards
Gordon
 
I need one more thing: I have used the WordStar keyboard layout for 20
years. I cannot change and still keep up my facility on the keyboard. Is
there anyway to enable 2-key sequences in OpenOffice? Like Ctrl-Q+Ctrl-S for
cursor left.

If anybody can help on this I will be most grateful.
Click to expand...

I think you need some sort hotkey program such as AutoHotkey to remap
your keyboard layout.
OR move with the time, adopt the new keyboard layout.
 
I went to the OOo website and was very impressed by the new 2.0, but I
don't understand the whole quick-start option. Does that mean the program
is running and therefore the individual pieces (writer, calc) start faster?
Doesn't that tie up resources?

And in this version, can you start writer without starting the whole suite?

Sorry if this is an inappropriate place to ask these questions, but I
didn't find the answers on OOo.


Chakolate
 
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