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2eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – Native OS X Version
3eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – OpenDocument 1.2
4eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – Office 2007 Format Support
5eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – PDF Import
6eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – Solver
OpenOffice.org’s Calc spreadsheet app now ships with Solver, a tool for analyzing multivariable solutions that’s been available for a while in Excel as a standard add-in. With the exception of a difference in the way the two applications defined noncontiguous fields in their respective solver tools, both Excel’s and Calc’s solver tools performed the same.
7eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – More Columns
Also on the feature parity and file compatibility front, the version of Calc that comes with OpenOffice.org 3.0 now supports custom error bars in charts, and a boost in the number of columns a sheet can hold from 256 to 1,024. To compare, Microsoft raised its column limit in Excel 2007 from 256 to 16,384.
8eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – Spreadsheet Collaboration
9eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – Writer Notes
10eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – What About E-mail?
11eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – The Trouble with Lightning
The big problem with Thunderbird as an Outlook replacement is the absence of the MAPI protocol through which Outlook talks to Exchange. Lightning does support remote calendars exposed through iCal, CalDAV or Sun’s Java System Calendar Server, but the Exchange omission will be problematic for many businesses.