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Here you can see, at a glance, what Go-oo has to offer in addition to the features you expect in up-stream OpenOffice.org. Subscribe to the announcement list for news about Go-oo!
Go-oo provides a powerful and interoperable fields implementation with nesting, in-place editing, multiple fonts & nested conditionals. (sample)
Go-oo’s Calc supports 1 million rows. Major performance issues associated with the row limit increase have been worked out to ensure usability
(read more).
Go-oo can run in the background
for a lightning second start.
(Tools → Options → Memory)
Go-oo’s Calc allows sheet tabs to be colored, and provides a quick way to insert new sheets.
Go-oo has improved interoperability with Excel, such as the ability to implicitly convert strings to numbers as context demands. (sample; reference)
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Go-oo provides VBA macro and Userform support for OpenOffice.org (sample).
Userform (sample)
Go-oo allows UNO automation with Mono, permitting automation from many languages such as C#, Boo, and more! (instructions; source)
Go-oo on Linux supports multimedia content using the GStreamer multimedia framework.
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Go-oo renders Chinese much more pleasantly, using a familiar text grid. (sample)
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Go-oo renders EMF+ content, giving a far better view of embedded drawings.
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Go-oo imports graphics in the WordPerfect WPG format which supplements Go-oo’s WordPerfect importer. (sample)
Go-oo already bundles the most useful OpenOffice.org extensions, like presenter console, pdfimport, or presentation minimizer:
Go-oo can open DBF files faster (read more).
Go-oo Writer navigator is improved to allow folding the headings for better usability.
Of course, there are many other fixes and features included, too numerous to mention.