OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost all ...

With OpenOffice Writer you can create a great variety of text documents, whether you need to write a paper for school or produce a professional report for your place of business. In some cases, you ...

When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of the biggest challenges was the lack of a decent productivity suite of the sort to which every Windows user is accustomed. The ...

Apache OpenOffice is an open-source software suite that includes a word processor, a spreadsheet program and a presentation application. OpenOffice is a free alternative to the well-known Microsoft ...

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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 ...

Shortcut keys section where you will see the list of all assigned and empty shortcut keys. You can use only those key combinations that are present in this section Functions section that lets you ...

Microsoft’s Office may be the go-to productivity suite in the business world, but there’s apparently plenty of room out there for challengers to thrive: On Thursday, the Apache Software Foundation ...

OpenOffice, once the premier open source alternative to Microsoft Office, could be shut down because there aren’t enough developers to update the office suite. Project leaders are particularly worried ...

Far from a project that is fading into oblivion, OpenOffice.org is still thriving under the support of a vibrant developer community and plans for further performance improvements, says its primary ...

OpenOffice.org extensions are a quick way to add functionality. Writable in a variety of languages, including Java, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org Basic, Python, and C++, they allow developers to ...

Most users interact with OpenOffice.org on the desktop. But what if you need to do a selective restore on the files that store custom gradients or colors? Troubleshoot why an extension won't install?