Co-Create Office Features List
We have made more than 400 improvements on original OpenOffice. The new features can be organized as 4 categories:
- Dual native file format
- Performance improvement
- UI and usability improvement
- Bug fix and add new features
Dual native file format:
- Cut down some features that can't support dual native file format.
- Change native file format to MS Office file format(doc, xls and ppt), user can change back to OpenDocument file format(select Tools>Options>Load/Save/General, in Default file format region).
- Support "compatibility option" (In MS Word, select "Tools">"Options">"Compatibility"), so MS Office will open Co-Create Office saved doc file correctly.
- Improve the layout algorithm when "Document Grid" is exist. This cause the compatibility when opening CJK doc files are dramatically improved.
- Improve "punctuation compression", "pair kerning", etc. algorithm to make document layout almost the same as in MS Office.
- Support "Document Grid" when saved in MS doc file format.
- Improve "line height", "line space" and "paragraph space" compatibility.
- Improve "page size / header & footer" position compatibility.
- Improve "page break" compatibility.
- Import number format in presentation.
- Using "character" and "line" as the unit of paragraph.
- Import/Export tab position correctly.
- Import/Export "Autosize" property of frame (which is extensively used in page number feature).
Performance improvement:
- Asynchronous open Doc file, much faster than before especially for large size document.
- Asynchronous open Ppt file, 2 ~ 10 times faster than before.
- New design of quick start under Windows.
- Improve speed when load remote image.
UI and usability improvement:
- Rearrange menus and toolbars to make them easy to use.
- Add some new toolbar button to make office easy to use.
- Modify some dialogs to make them easy to use.
- Much improved document Header/Footer support, better look & feel, easy to use.
- Improve the look & feel of pull down menu to make them beautiful.
- Modify some default properties.
- Improve error message display in spreadsheet.
- Remember "zoom factor" in document and display correctly.
- Automatic set default filename for new documents(select some characters at document beginning as default file name).
- Modify increase/decrease step for spin field.
- Select lines by click beside left document border.
- Multi-master page support in presentation (Now user can use presentation template with more than one master page just like MS Office).
- Move document position to center of Window.
- Sometimes don't change toolbar for different object(in presentation), to avoid "unstable" feeling.
- Double click to change spreadsheet name.
- Change the look & feel of gray button to make them more beautiful.
- Increase control size to make them show clearly under Linux.
Bug fix and add new features:
- Support "View">"Grid" to assist document edit.
- Add some new table operation in writer (in "Table" pull down menu).
- Add "Insert number", "Insert Date", "Insert Symbol" functions.
- Add "Character Direction" dialog.
- Add "Section Break" support.
- Improve autocorrect to support CJK characters.
- Add "Insert Page Number" function.
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