StarOffice 8

New & Enhanced Features

• StarOffice 8 Update 10 Available Now With PDF/A Support
  The new chart engine introduced with Product Update 8 has been improved even further. For example, it is now possible to display the equations of trendlines, optimize the placing of labels, assign number formats to data labels, display each part of a data label in a separate line, reverse axes and more. In addition, StarOffice can now export to PDF/A which is a popular ISO standard for archiving read-only documents. Calc has improved DataPilot and Text to Column functionality, and Writer now has an easier way of changing the spell checking language. Not to mention the enhanced extension framework which enables extensions to automatically check for updates. Finally, Product Update 10 introduces VBA support, allowing a number of existing VBA macros to be run unmodified.

• Introducing New and Powerful Extensions for StarOffice and OpenOffice.org
  Extensions are small add-ons that provide new functionality to StarOffice and OpenOffice.org The extensions are easy to install and even easier to use.

  The following two extensions are new:

  • Sun Report Builder - Create stylish, smart-looking database reports.
  • OpenOffice.org/StarOffice eFax Extension - Send and receive faxes from within the StarOffice office suite.

  More StarOffice Extensions are available in the new Extension Repository.

• Sun ODF Plugin 1.2 for Microsoft Office Available Now as a Free Download
  The Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office gives users of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint the ability to read, edit and save to the ISO standard Open Document Format. The ODF Plugin is available as a free download from the Sun Download Center (SDLC).

  The Plugin is easy to set up and use, the conversion happens transparently, and the additional memory footprint is minimal. Microsoft Office users now can have seamless two-way conversion of Microsoft Office documents to and from Open Document. The ODF Plugin runs on Microsoft Windows and is available in 16 different languages.

• ISO standard OpenDocument (ODF) is the New Default File Format
  Now StarOffice files are saved by default in Open Document Format, an ISO-standard, specified by the OASIS OpenDocument 1.0 schema, for easier file sharing. IBM, Novell, and Red Hat also support OpenDocument. For backward compatibility, you can still open and save files in the StarOffice 6/7 XML-format. See Oasis-Open.org for more info.