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 ...

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If you took my advice (and you always do, right?) and dumped Microsoft Office in favor of OpenOffice 3.0, here's a cool way to juice it up: The Writer's Tools extension for OpenOffice lets you back up ...

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 ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The Writer's Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an ...

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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OpenOffice has been an open-source project for nearly six years now, and the project has grown and matured considerably during that time. Originally based on the code from StarOffice, a creaky ...

Apache OpenOffice is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. Apache OpenOffice is a full suite of office applications: word processor, database, spreadsheet, presentation, and graphics. Each of them ...

More details have emerged about the forthcoming cloud-based version of Apache OpenOffice (AOO). A cloud version of OpenOffice writer, AOO's document editor, was shown at a presentation at the ...