With a few settings tweaks and cautious formatting, you can keep from losing features when moving files between the two word processors. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

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Like other OpenOffice.org applications, Writer has dozens of options available from Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer. These options allow you to adjust both the general settings of Writer and ...

One of the perqs of being a journalist is that I often hear about software and events before most people. A case in point is Writer's Tools, an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer being developed by ...

Staying productive and competitive in the digital age often requires finding faster ways to do things. Saving OpenOffice Writer files may be one repetitive task that you perform frequently. Because ...

Working with files in a range of formats is an age-old problem in the office, but more often than not, the open source suite of applications offered by OpenOffice can handle any file. One situation ...

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OpenOffice.org is an office package by Sun Microsystems. The package was initially introduced for *nix OSes and Sun OS machines, and was later compiled for Windows ...

Microsoft Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. are loaded with features; but, practically getting used to all of them would take weeks of training. Then there’s one feature that most of us ...

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 ...