And yes did I forget to mention that you won’t have to uninstall you previous version. I would strongly suggest you to keep the old version running along with Open Office 3 just to let the new version settle.

Now let’s quickly get down to business and see how to install Open Office 3. Follow the simple steps below:

1. Download the Open Office deb from Open Office site.
2. Double click the downloaded tar.gz file and extract the folder on your desktop.
3. Now move the extracted folders using the following command in a terminal window.

cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS

4. Just type the following command to finish the installation

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Creating a custom Application launcher.

1. Right click on your panel and click Add to Panel.

2. Double click Custom Application Launcher

3. Add the following information

Name: OO3

Command: /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

That’s it you are all set to launch your Open Office 3.

We hope you’ll enjoy this new version of office. You can check what’s new in Open Office here.