In addition, in the Calc spreadsheet, the dialog for creating datapilots (Calc’s equivalent of MS Excel’s Pivot Tables) has been enhanced with a sub-dialog for sorting. In much the same way, the thesaurus dialog window has been simplified, with a longer list of synonyms visible immediately. The dialog also benefits from a single page preview that, while too small to be legible, is enough to see the general design and, with any luck, to identify each page without needing to close the dialog and returning to the document. After relying for years on sub-windows and pull-down lists, the printing dialog is now tabbed, with enough room on the General tab to display at least half a dozen printers without the need of opening the list or scrolling. Perhaps the most noticeable is the printing dialog.
So far as I can see, 3.3 contains no new features that LibreOffice 3.3 lacks while, by contrast, 3.3 has a number of features that 3.3 does not have, including improved language support, new import filters, and several changes that allow for more flexibility for spreadsheet users.īoth new releases include some redesigned interfaces - an improvement that has been needed for many releases. However, a point-by-point comparison shows that while the new releases have numerous improvements over version 3.2 of the code, the advantage seems to lie with LibreOffice. Just as importantly, although both and LibreOffice issued lists of new features, the lists are structured and worded differently, and emphasize different features. For one thing, while the improvements over the previous common release 3.2 are numerous, few are major. Unfortunately, tracking the differences is not easy.
However, it was only last week that the two rivals released their 3.3 versions, and users had the chance to see whether the differences in the culture of the projects made any difference in the code. In the weeks since then, there have been promises of innovation and change from LibreOffice, and an attempt at dignified silence from. On September 28, 2010, LibreOffice was announced as a fork of the office suite.
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