Some OOo 2.0 improvements (which you’ll see in the latest milestone releases that crop up):
- MS Office (Word) has a Format Painter that people love, and the Stylist really does have a workaround. But the birth of the Format Paintbrush will make OOo 2.0 more MSOffice like.
- A new OASIS Open Office XML file format will also be out. This will make OOo 100% compatible with the OASIS XML file format. Its still under review, though the recommendation is to change the file format name currently (I don’t quite like this – think of MIME type changes elsewhere). Option 1 seems sane, but backward compatibility is an issue.
Now all we need is the DocBook XSLT filter to just work so that we have a useful editor for things like Fedora Docs.
Might as well add that there’s now an OpenOffice.org 1.1 Competitive Guide SMB targetted at the SMB market. There’s some COSPA OpenOffice.org Training Materials available for download; and Anthony Long (longtime OOo contributor) has got a support program ready.