New Char Tool in the OpenOffice 2.3.0 Version

The latest OpenOffice release, 2.3 is announced to be released later this fall and it will also change its release cycle from 18-months to releasing updates, feature enhancements and bug fixes every three months. This release will also bring some interesting new features and functionalities, among many bug-fixes and enhancements.

For example, there are some estimations made on: updates of the SDK and of its Release Notes and update of redirect page, upload of solver tarballs, notification of mirrors, press release/alert, press kit update, update of P2P page, update of Bittorrents, possibility to track Status of localized builds, some setup guides a.s.o.

Also, one of the hottest things featured by this new version would be the new OpenOffice.org Charting Tool. The Chart Tool benefited from numerous improvements and it is already available as a developer version only.

Highlights in the development version:

- simplified charts creation through a new wizard with live preview
- flexible Source Ranges
- data ranges can be chosen for single parts of single series separately; one can select different x-values for different series
- easier settings for 3D charts
- only one dialog for 3D settings, containing easier access to simple look and simplified perspective settings
- enhance logarithmic scales
- minimum, maximum and major intervals as you like for the logarithmic axis
- pie segment offset for 3D charts
- possibility to drag out single 3D pie segments and donut segments also
- improved im-/export from/to excel
- enhanced automatic scaling
- improved automatic minimum and maximum values for axis
- improved automatic axes label layout
- improved selection handling
- more default colors
- improved performance for charts with many data points
- regression curves also available for 2D line charts, 2D bar and column charts and 2D area charts
- additional sub chart types: 2D Lines subtype 'points only', 2D net subtype 'points only', 3D XY, 3D smooth lines, 3D.