Project areas of apache openoffice

OpenOffice in Native Languages

The Native Language websites offer information, resources, and much more in a user’s native language.

We rely exclusively on volunteers to provide native language releases of Apache OpenOffice. We can always use more help even for languages where we already have maintainers. Please visit the Native Language Information area of the Apache OpenOffice project to find out more about native language support specifically, and please see Getting Involved for additional information on getting involved in Apache OpenOffice.

Please see:

• The download page for a list of officially released languages.
• Pootle for an overview of the current localization status.
• The OpenOffice source code for a full list of available languages, including those that are not yet on Pootle and those for which we have no website available (for example, many of the African localizations are not listed below).

In the following table, the status definitions for the Website column are:

(Legacy information for the Native Language Confederation, not accurate for Apache OpenOffice.)

Product Development

About ports and distributions

Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is a productivity suite which is already
officially available for the following platforms:

• Windows — XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (32-bit)
• Linux — RPM / DEB-based (32-bit and 64-bit)
• MacOS X (Intel) — 10.4 (Tiger) up to 10.15 (Catalina)

What is a port?

When making AOO available for another operating system or CPU architecture, then this is called «porting or a port».
Usually this is done on the source code level.
More general information here.

What is a distribution?

When taking an already available AOO installation and package it in a different way to make it ready to run directly,
e.g., from a USB stick resp. CD/DVD or on another Linux OS, then this is called «distribution or distro».
More general information here.

ODF Support

Open Document Format (ODF) standards, as promulgated by the Organization
for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), set international compatibility
criteria for the electronic/digital storage of documents.

These standards recognize the importance of interoperability and
intelligent information exchange and seek, for example, to ensure that
office documents created today on any given computer system will be
readable by other computer systems everywhere, including the technology of
tomorrow.

OpenOffice.org 3.2 has made further strides in compliance with ODF 1.2,
including closer conformance to OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula specifications.

• As OpenOffice.org 3.2 currently requires a superset of the ODF 1.2
  specification, the software now warns users when ODF 1.2 Extended
  features have been used.
• The document integrity check now proves whether an ODF document
  conforms to the ODF specification (this mainly affects ODF 1.2
  documents). If an inconsistency is found, the document is treated as a
  broken one, and OpenOffice.org offers to repair the document.

Ports and distributions available now

• X-ApacheOpenOffice by winPenPack

  (Apache OpenOffice Portable version for Windows)
  

  Apache OpenOffice re-packaged as a live/portable program by the winPenPack team, allowing execution without further
  installation, from a USB Flash Drive or Hard Disk.

• Apache OpenOffice Portable, by PortableApps.com

  (Apache OpenOffice Portable version for Windows)
  

  Apache OpenOffice re-packaged as a live/portable program by the PortableApps.com team, allowing execution without further
  installation, from a USB Flash Drive or Hard Disk.

• AndrOpen Office

  (Android port of Apache OpenOffice)
  

  AndrOpen Office is the world’s first port of OpenOffice for Android, It is made available on Google Play by the AndrOpen
  Office team and it requires Android 4.0.3 or later.

• A package repository by Marcelo Santana containing the same Debian packages as the official version, to provide an
  easier way for installation of Apache OpenOffice on Debian and derivatives. For usage in Ubuntu, a

  step-by-step guide

  (with commentary in Portuguese) is available too.

• A port to OS/2 by
  Yuri Dario and bww bitwise works GmbH.

• ProOO-Box

  (German only)
  

  A collection of open source applications for the office area, created by German community members. The core of the
  collection is Apache OpenOffice.

Enhancements to statistical functions

• NORMDIST’s 4th parameter is now optional.

  • 0 or FALSE calculates the probability density function. Any other
    value or TRUE or omitted calculates the cumulative distribution
    function.
  • If omitted, 1 is written to files for backwards
    compatibility.

• LOGNORMDIST’s 2nd and 3rd parameters are now optional, an optional
  4th parameter has been added.

  • The 2nd, mean, parameter has the default value 0 if omitted.
  • If omitted, 0 is written to files for backwards
    compatibility.
  • The 3rd, standard deviation, parameter has the default value 1 if
    omitted. If omitted, 1 is written to files for backwards
    compatibility.
  • The 4th, cumulative, parameter is defined as — 0 or FALSE
    calculates the probability density function. Any other value or TRUE
    or omitted calculates the cumulative distribution function. — If a
    value was given, earlier releases reading the file cannot interpret
    the function and return an error.

OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula specification

Proprietary File Support

OpenOffice.org 3.2 provides improved support for other common office
document types.

• Password protected Microsoft Office XML files (supported
  document types: MS Word 2007 documents (*.docx, *.docm); MS Word 2007
  templates (*.dotx, *.dotm); MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsm); MS
  Excel 2007 binary documents (*.xlsb); MS Excel 2007 templates (*.xltx,
  *.xltm); MS Powerpoint 2007 documents (*.pptx, *.pptm); MS Powerpoint
  2007 templates (*.potx, *.potm)).
• OLE objects, form controls and pivot tables can now be read from
  MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsb).
• Encryption support within the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP
  filter allows password protected Microsoft Word documents to be saved
  (using the Microsoft Office standard RC4 algorithm).
• Filters for AportisDoc and PocketWord now support
  type detection based on DocType. As a result, files in these formats can
  be loaded without explicitly selecting the document type in the file
  picker.
• When writing string data to SYLK files, embedded double
  quotes are no longer escaped by doubling; semicolons are now escaped by
  doubling. This improves compatibility with files created by other
  applications.

Extension Development