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OpenOffice 3.2 Released

OpenOffice 3.2 has left the testing stage, and it’s now ready to download!

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Some important new features are:

  • It supports the option key for more Mac-like text navigation
  • Faster start-up time
  • Better support for password-protected Microsoft Word files
  • And much more!

Head over to OpenOffice.org to download it.

If you’d like to add grammar-checking to OpenOffice, check out our tutorial on how to install LanguageTool, a free grammar-checker for OpenOffice.

OpenOffice Comparison Page Updated

We’ve added a feature to our page that compares the features of OpenOffice Writer, Apple’s Pages ’09, and Microsoft’s Word 2008.

Do you want to know which of the three can save your current document as a webpage? Take a look!

Tutorial Added: Check grammar in OpenOffice with LanguageTool

We’ve just added a tutorial on how to check grammar in your OpenOffice documents using LanguageTool. Check it out!

OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft Word, and Apple Pages comparison

We’ve added a page that compares the features of Writer, Pages, and Word to give you an ideas of how good a free office suite can be.

From automatic word completion to .DOCX file support, we’ve picked out some important features that a good word processor should have.

Check it out!