OO released a beta (test version) of Open Office 3.3. It promises a bunch of new features you can find out which ones by clicking here to go to their website. One of the biggest complaints that I hear about Open Office is that it doesn’t come with any wizards.. it’s got more of a blank slate feel to it. You can always download there templates at their website, but it would be neat if a bunch of them were included.. or if someone would package them in a easy to use installer. The Goodwill website actually offers free training on Open Office which comes standard on all of their computers they sell. You can get access to those free classes here.
Unless I missed it I do not see a notice of Open Office being able to use the new office format files yet. As soon as it comes out of Beta I plan on checking to see if it can open the new MS Office files. Sometimes they slip in things like this and don’t list it in the feature set.
Be patient I’ll post a review as soon as the new Open Office comes out.