OpenOffice 3.0.0

[struct]

This appears to be the full 3.0.0. The main site still lists RC4 as the latest build. No changelog yet that I could find.

Download (mirror)

[Pheee]

My Beta version hasnt prompted for an update, will go to download. Need Mac Version.

[fix-this!]

it's not the final release yet.

[Rappy Veteran]

I just got the notification from File Hippo so I'll download :)

[Quillz]

Whatever happened to doing a native version of OpenOffice for the Mac?

[Raa]

Whatever happened to doing a native version of OpenOffice for the Mac?

What do you mean? I had a customer install it only last week and it's Carbonised now and works natively :|

Edit : Yep, V3.0.0 Final is out! Aussie Mirror : http://openoffice.mirror.aussiehq.net.au/stable/3.0.0/

[Xerxes]

Cool thanks :) Hopefully this version will actually install on my machine, RC4 even when installed as Administrator refused to install and complained it didn't have sufficient access rights :huh: . If this does it again, then I'm ditching OpenOffice and looking for something else.

EDIT: It did more then fail to install, it removed OpenOffice completely! then when it was about to install it encountered the error....bugger, I get all the luck :(

EDIT2: Good news, is at least this version installed without a hitch :)

Edited October 11, 2008 by Xerxes

[Quillz]

What do you mean? I had a customer install it only last week and it's Carbonised now and works natively :|

Edit : Yep, V3.0.0 Final is out! Aussie Mirror : http://openoffice.mirror.aussiehq.net.au/stable/3.0.0/

There was talk of making a native version that used Aqua widgets. Whatever happened to it? The problem with NeoOffice is that it's always a version behind.

[giga Veteran]

There was talk of making a native version that used Aqua widgets. Whatever happened to it? The problem with NeoOffice is that it's always a version behind.

Well it's native in that it's a standard cocoa app and uses aqua widgets but it still has a long way to go before getting a mac ui. Just looks like a windows app right now.

Compared to Pages:

[Dazog]

Well it's native in that it's a standard cocoa app and uses aqua widget but it still has a long way to go before getting a mac ui. Just looks like a windows app right now.

Compared to Pages:

Free program VS pay program?

I think they deserve alot of credit for coming this far from 2

[giga Veteran]

Free program VS pay program?

I think they deserve alot of credit for coming this far from 2

Well i'm not knocking them for having a bad UI--just outlining the shortcomings in the UI that Quillz was talking about.. It's great that they've made such a large suite native. Certainly not an easy task.

[Denholm]

Been waiting for the final. Good product, great price ;)

[NEVER85]

Just upgraded, works great. :yes:

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

I thought they were doing .docx support on 3.0? My lady has 3.0 RC3 installed and that doesn't have .docx as a save option. Does the final have it?

[Raa]

To save? No. But opening all Office 2007 documents now works.

Just save them as 2003 versions, as O2k7 will open them.

If you really want the ability to save o2k7 files, you'd need to install the o2k7 file converters, save a doc, then convert it to docx.

But option 1 sounds easier :p

[Crazysah]

Thanks for the update. I shall install it!

[sharp65]

You can open docx files but be prepared to have a pretty screwed up document if you have more than just text. I tried opening a docx file with a couple charts that were copied from excel and none of them were their. The tables that were made from within word that their formatting removed.

[Nelsinho]

thanks for the updade dude (Y)

[Evolution]

I've found that opening up docx files work perfectly fine, however exporting as doc files don't always turn out.

[primexx]

what's new in 3.0?

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

OpenOffice.org 3.0 has now been officially released.

• Announcement
  
• New features in OpenOffice.org 3.0
  
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[ViperAFK]

Well it's native in that it's a standard cocoa app and uses aqua widgets but it still has a long way to go before getting a mac ui. Just looks like a windows app right now.

Compared to Pages:

looks hell of a lot better than the windows and linux versions...

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

looks hell of a lot better than the windows and linux versions...

Perhaps. But: It does not really look like a native Mac app.

On the other hand Mac users shouldn't complain too much. OO.org is a very capable office suite after all, at an unbeatable price point of 0.00 ?.

[quotHi, I'm a Mac. I'd rather pay a lot of money for a proprietary closed source piece of software used to make a document, than to download a free piece of software (and hopefully donate a few bucks) that can make an equally good document, because if the software interface I use to make documents does not exactly and precisely match the look of my environment, I am incapable, and even paralyzed, at even the thought of making such documents with such an unfashionable looking interface.i>

-- as seen on Slashdot.

[ViperAFK]

LOL. That quote is exactly what I was thinking.

[hagjohn]

hmmm... their server is overloaded.