I’ve long preferred OpenOffice for my presentations. It has functionality (like the ability to enter a group of objects I’ve grouped and edit just one of them) that I simply can’t get in Microsoft Office, and the performance is quite good. I’m therefore happy to see version 2.4 hit public release. The good just got better, as The Register reports:
The OpenOffice.org 2.4 database, Base, now supports MS-Access 2007, while abilities for MySQL, Oracle JDBC and native HSQL databases have been improved.
PDF handling has been improved with five export options, and Writer has been rounded out with improved “find and replace”, new keyboard short cuts, and the ability to set options for printing hidden or place-holder text and for following hyperlinks.
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