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The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the general
availability of OpenOffice.org 3.1, a significant upgrade to the world’s
leading open-source office productivity suite. Since OpenOffice.org 3.0
was launched last October, over 60 million downloads have been recorded
from the OpenOffice.org website alone. Released in more than 90 languages
and available as a free download on all major computing platforms,
OpenOffice.org 3.1 looks set to break these records.

New core features include:

Writer (word processing)
* Improvements to comments: reply feature now supports ‘conversations’
* Further grammar checker integration
* Outline levels within paragraphs for complex documents

Calc (spreadsheet)
* Hot hints for formulae, with new and improved formulae available
* Improved sorting
* More performance bottlenecks removed
* The zoom slider added to the status bar
* Rename sheets with a double-click

Chart (graphics engine)
* Flexible positioning of axes for scientific and educational users
* Flexible handling of “missing” data points

Impress (presentation)
* Font size buttons

Base (database)
* SQL syntax highlighting
* Easier deployment of macro applications

Internationalization and Localization
* Improved support for bidirectional scripts
* New locale support

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