The gradient tablet has been improved.New color palette that is arranged in a new scheme, offers more colors by default and makes selecting colors a simple process.Font color in tables in pptx is now supported.Īdditional changes and features have been made to OpenOffice 4.0.

Additional numbering and bullet types in Docx.

Table background color from table style in docx files is now supported.

GetPIVOTDATA in Excel is now supported.

Use-defined format code in XLS cells is now supported if the value is true or false.

Data filter function on merged cells is now supported.

Chart names are now shown through VBA API by clicking a button.

The range specified by a reference formular or name range is now supported.

Pie chart height is kept when Excel spreadsheets are opened.

Fit shape to text properties for right notched arrows now imports correctly.

The fill attribute of graphic backgrounds in tables are now displayed correctly.

Support for special tiled fill backgrounds.

Keep special numbering when saving or opening ppt presentations.

Numbering and bullets attributes determined by the paragraph end mark in MS Word.

Table of content improvements (tabs, attributes and jump).

Support for Graphic Bullets in MS Word 2003.

The release notes highlight those changes in detail and with screenshots that show how something looked in OpenOffice 3.4.1 and how it looks now in OpenOffice 4.0. Interoperability improvementsĪ second big change are interoperability improvements that the developers made in OpenOffice 4.0.

It is furthermore possible to undock the sidebar from the window so that you can move it around freely on the screen without interfering with the actual OpenOffice window underneath. You can adjust the width of the panel easily via drag and drop, and will notice that the controls will change their size accordingly up to a point.

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