Convert OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheets into a Microsoft Excel file to take advantage of Excel's built-in tools. OpenOffice.org spreadsheets default to a .xsc file extension, which certain versions ...

In the free open-source office suite Apache OpenOffice, Calc is the spreadsheet equivalent to Microsoft Excel. Calc allows you to open and edit files originally saved in other programs and formats, ...

Note: This book review was conducted as an audio interview of macros expert John Dukovich, by Phil Shapiro, using Audacity, the free sound recording and editing ...

DataPilots are OpenOffice.org Calc's equivalent of what MS Excel and other spreadsheets call pivot tables. Under any name, they are a tool for extracting and summarizing the information contained in ...

Making the switch from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice can save you a lot of money on licensing fees, and it isn’t difficult &#151 most people get used to the changes quickly. But if you’ve been using ...

In my last blog, where I did a high-level technical evaluation of Microsoft Office 2003 and OpenOffice.org 2.0, I showed that OpenOffice was a memory and resource hog. Contrary to popular belief ...

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An improvement on OpenOffice 3.0 and good for a free product, but some people will find it awkward to use Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you ...

The features in question have been around in the app for quite some time, but if you’re new to it, then chances are you’ve never heard of it before, and that’s fine. The features we will cover are: ...