Yay my favourite office suite just got an update (hence it’s included in MY lovely gadgets). Version 2.4 brings quite fixes and new features, such as:

• Chart improvements
• 3D slide transitions
• Rectangular selection
• More powerful regular expressions
• Easier selection of language for spell checking
• Insert picture as slide background
• Convert text to columns
• Enhanced formula input
• Enhanced data input
• Extensions
• Custom Word properties
• Move cells using drag and drop
• Localization

To read them in more detail, visit the OpenOffice New features page.

Source: Slashdot