

Some defaults have been changed as well such as larger size, larger font size, no black borders, better 3D look, and more. Insert Drawing Objects - Users can now insert objects such as lines, rectangles, cubes, symbols, flowcharts, etc. Million Rows & Tab Colors - Calc now supports 1,048,576 rows instead of 65,536 and users can assign colors to their tabs. With this you might allow one group of workers to modify files while another can only read them. Writer and Calc can also now support two password settings: the familiar read protection and the new write protection. Password protection - A new dialog was added that supports setting passwords to protect Word 97, Excel 97, and ODF documents.

In addition, standard PDF fonts that were previously only embedded in PDF/A files are now available to any PDF document. While the loss of the German team is unlikely to affect this release, one has to wonder what the future holds for .įonts - Oracle has contributed a narrow font to the Liberation font families making more compatible with Arial Narrow font commonly used in Microsoft Office. This comes when as many as 33 developers are handing in their resignations. 3.3 Release Candidate 3 was released on November 1 with many updates and new features that have been in development for the last six months or more. Will Oracle and IBM Help Java Move Forward?.Does OpenOffice Really Threaten Microsoft Office?.
