The 'Properties' deck is context-sensitive and shows panels with the document properties that are most frequently used for the current editing task.Ĭlick on these images for a more detailed view: The Sidebar makes better use of today's widescreen displays than traditional toolbars. The Sidebar is a major new feature of the user interface in all of the OpenOffice applications. New Features and Enhancements New Sidebar More information can be found on our Get Involved page. We're not only programmers, but are a community of testers, UI designers, web designers, technical writers, accessibility experts, translators, social media experts, etc. But if you are interested in joining us, to help us make the next great version of OpenOffice, then we want to hear from you.

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We adapted that code, and based on several rounds of feedback from users like you, improved it and integrated it into OpenOffice.Īnd for new users, welcome to the community! We hope you enjoy using Apache OpenOffice, the leading free and open office productivity suite.

This feature was based on code contributed by IBM, from their Lotus Symphony product. We hope you like the new features, especially the Sidebar UI. We wish to give a special 'hello' to our upgrading users. The new logo is the result of many design iterations, collaboration among talented designers and a contest where 40 logos were rated by over 50,000 users. One other thing that you will notice immediately, on this page, our website and in other places, is our new logo. You can read the details of these later in these Release Notes. OpenOffice 4.0 features an innovative new Sidebar user interface, additional language support for 22 languages (including 3 new languages), 500 bug fixes, improvements in Microsoft Office interoperability, enhancements to drawing/graphics, performance improvements, etc. Building upon the great success of the OpenOffice 3.4 release, which has seen over 57 million downloads, this major update brings exciting new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is now available for download from our official download page.

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