Note: This is the fourth in a multi-part series on OpenOffice Wednesday that will focus on some of the new and upgraded features that will appear in OpenOffice.org 3.2, which is slated to be released December 14, 2009.
Part One – The Countdown Begins
Part Two – Writer
Part Three – Calc
Of each of the OpenOffice. org programs, Impress, OOo’s 
answer to Microsoft PowerPoint, will have the least amount of new and modified features that will be available in version 3.2. Also noteworthy is the the new features for Impress are the same as Draw, OpenOffice.org’s graphics component.
- Page Count - Previous editions of Impress and Draw did not allow for the page count to be added as a text field, even though is has been available for Writer. OpenOffice 3.2 has fixed that issue, carrying the Writer feature into Impress and Draw, giving users the ability to finally add a page count.
- Collaboration - Like most productivity software, OpenOffice.org has long been used by multiple users to collaborate on various projects. The problem has been, though, that with Impress and Draw, users were unable to add comments into the document for others to see.For OOo 3.2, users will now have two options to add comments. First, comments can be added from the Menu bar (It will be located at Menu>Insert>Comments). Alternatively, the OOo team has created a new Comments toolbar that can be activated and utilized in collaborations.
Next week: We will take a look at the new features in Base.
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