Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress now allow users to preview their work inside the browser before exporting it to html-format. There is also a one click link to a new extensions repository. Several new features are available to developers of extensions. Language support has been improved for a further fourteen languages, building on 's already impressive language support. The popular 'move along curve' animation feature was re-introduced, despite all the claims that its over-use would create sea-sickness to sensitive part of the audience. There is a greater support for keyboard shortcuts throughout Base.ĭraw was made more accessible (numerous new features were added) including the improved support for 'png'-images that now can be inserted to 'html'-documents The Report Builder, available as extension on, now has additional facilities for expert users. Besides, 'workarounds' for cotangent functions supported in Calc are not yet supported by Microsoft Excel.īase continues to evolve as a fully-fledged application in its own right, with its windows all having their own size, position, etc settings. Compatibility with Microsoft Excel was improved.

Manging error bars was made more user-friendly.

Summation was made more powerful and more intuitive. The new version of 'Calc' now supports inline matrix/array constants in formulas. The developers modified the 'page preview' mode and added a new filter that exports documents to MediaWiki ('Wikipedia') format In 'Charts', the developers improved the built-in data editor that now allows editing the chart data within other programs (e.g. They added few new chart types such as '3D exploded pies' and 'exploded donuts' (watch out Homer Simpson). It also became easier to create new 3-D charts. Appearance of 3D-Charts was greatly improved. Scaling of axes was changed to get a better data representation.

The default chart appearance was also improved with a new colour palette. The developers added some new features, made 'charts' simpler and improved their logic. The Chart component of underwent a major revamp for 2.3. Note - this list is based on the full list in Feature_Freeze_Testing_2.3

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