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Copy of AOO 4.0 Release Notes Page added by ChriStef Translations available for: Asturianu (ast) | Bulgarian (bg) | Deutsch (de) | Ελληνικά (el) | Español (es) | Galego (gl) | Italiano (it) | Bahasa Indonesia (id) | Nederlands (nl) | Русский (ru) | 简体中文 (zh-CN) | 正體中文 (zh-TW) Contents General Remarks Community Open Source New Features and Enhancements Additional Language Support Improved Quality Management Tools Changes that Impact Backwards Compatibility Bug Fixes Known Issues Stay informed about Apache OpenOffice General Remarks Unable to render embedded object: File (logo.png) not found. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is now available for download from our official download page. Building upon the great success of the OpenOffice 3.4 release, which has seen over 57 million downloads, this major update brings exciting new features, enhancements and bug fixes. OpenOffice 4.0 features an innovative new Sidebar user interface, additional language support for 22 languages (including 3 new languages), 500 bug fixes, improvements in Microsoft Office interoperability, enhancements to drawing/graphics, performance improvements, etc. You can read the details of these later in these Release Notes. One other thing that you will notice immediately, on this page, our website and in other places, is our new logo. The new logo is the result of many design iterations, collaboration among talented designers and a contest where 40 logos were rated by over 50,000 users. We wish to give a special "hello" to our upgrading users. We hope you like the new features, especially the Sidebar UI. This feature was based on code contributed by IBM, from their Lotus Symphony product. We adapted that code, and based on several rounds of feedback from users like you, improved it and integrated it into OpenOffice. And for new users, welcome to the community! We hope you enjoy using Apache OpenOffice, the leading free and open office productivity suite. As always we welcome your feedback: Support questions are best directed to our community support forums. Bug reports (but not support questions) should go to to our Bugzilla issue tracking system. General questions can also be sent to our public users mailing list. You can also find us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Community Open Source At Apache we work transparently as an open community of volunteers. We develop open source software to benefit the public. We're not going to beg you for monetary contributions. But if you are interested in joining us, to help us make the next great version of OpenOffice, then we want to hear from you. We're not only programmers, but are a community of testers, UI designers, web designers, technical writers, accessibility experts, translators, social media experts, etc. Volunteers in all areas are welcome. More information can be found on our Get Involved page. New Features and Enhancements New Sidebar The Sidebar is a major new feature of the user interface in all of the OpenOffice applications. The Sidebar makes better use of today's widescreen displays than traditional toolbars. The 'Properties' deck is context-sensitive and shows panels with the document properties that are most frequently used for the current editing task. Click on these images for a more detailed view: Unable to render embedded object: File (screenshot-writer-context-text.png) not found. Unable to render embedded object: File (screenshot-writer-context-bitmap.png) not found. Unable to render embedded object: File (screenshot-writer-context-shape.png) not found. Screenshots of Writer with contexts for text, bitmap, and shapes (from left to right). The new OpenOffice logo has been pasted as bitmap (center) and editable outlines (right). If you find that you don't use a particular panel very often, just click on its title and it will collapse to a single line of text. A small + or - at the left side of the panel title indicates whether the panels is collapsed or expanded. Unable to render embedded object: File (expand-and-collapse.png) not found. Different panels expanded or collapsed Eleven property panels have been migrated from IBM Lotus Symphony: Alignment, Area, Cell Appearance, Graphic, Line, Number Format, Page, Paragraph, Position and Size, Text and Wrap. Seven panels come from the old Impress tool panel: Available for Use, Custom Animation, Layouts, Recently Used, Slide Transition, Table Design, Used in This Presentation. Four are non-modal (ie non locking) dialogs: Functions, Gallery, Navigator, Syles and Formatting. One is new: Insert. Unable to render embedded object: File (sidebar-panels.png) not found. Panels from Symphony, the old Impress task pane, OpenOffice dialogs (from left to right). The width of the Sidebar can be adjusted. The controls adapt their size accordingly. If you need more space then it can be undocked — and poss
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