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 ...

Give your Writer documents, Calc spreadsheets, and Impress presentations more impact by using the great add-ons for the productivity suite. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources... Enter your password. Go to the second tab, "Third-Party Software," click on the "Add" button, and paste the line below for your Ubuntu ...

Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don't know what they are talking about. As a large desktop ...

Now 15 years old, the open source productivity suite is still gaining fans and improving compatibility with its chief rival, Microsoft Office. Readers weigh in on version 3 of the suite. Although ...

Microsoft is getting ready to ship Office 2010, but a lot of small businesses realize they don’t need all the features (or licensing costs) that come with Microsoft Office. The front-runners for ...

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Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the best, cheapest alternative to ...

FOREST HILL, Md., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Earlier this year the OpenOffice.org code base was donated to The Apache Software Foundation. The resulting project, Apache OpenOffice ...

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) released an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer that enables users to save documents as Braille or to send them directly to a Braille embosser.

Although Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite is now being targeted by hackers, researchers at the French Ministry of Defense say users of the OpenOffice.org software may be at even greater risk from ...

A vote was put to the members of the Apache Software Foundation last week to accept Oracle's source code contribution to Openoffice.org. Fears apparently exist among the dissenters that free open ...