OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. OpenOffice.org is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, which is the primary contributor of code to the Project. Over 180,000 people from every nearly every curve of the globe have joined this Project with the idea of creating the best possible office suite that all can use. They do so under the auspices of... Read Full Story
OpenOffice.Org is a very good, open source alternative to proprietary office suites, and is available free of cost just like any other open source application. OpenOffice 2.3 was scheduled to be released on September 17, 2007 but it has been made available a day earlier on some download mirrors. OpenOffice 2.3 Features OpenOffice 2.3 boasts of some improved features, that include the following: New chart wizard, with support for 3D Charts Revamped Toolbars Export documents as Wiki pages on... Read Full Story
L'Associazione PLIO, Progetto Linguistico Italiano OOo, dà il benvenuto a Microsoft Office 2007 tra i software che supportano in modo... Read Full Story
The ODF Alliance ’s monthly newsletter has been released for January 2009. (The newsletter is distributed as a PDF, but Boycott Novell’s website shares an HTML version for in-browser reading .)
It was a newsworthy month and year–the 2008 annual report is cited several times, including:
Government adoptions… grew steadily and now include 16 national and 8 provincial governments that have formally recommended or required the use of ODF; a dramatic improvement in both the quality of... Read Full Story
According to the latest ODF Alliance Newsletter , the UK and Latvia have made moves in support of OpenDocument Format (ODF).
The CIO’s office in the UK has created a new page called Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan . The ODF Alliance summarizes the UK CIO’s position as follows:
The United Kingdom has joined the growing ranks of governments that have now endorsed the use of ODF. Under the “Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan” the UK... Read Full Story
Mirroring the OpenOffice Extension repository , the project has recently set up a centralized OpenOffice template repository . It’s an easy way for non-programmers to get involved in the OOo project:
This Template Repository is a place for the submission of new templates made by you, the community!
You created a nice template? Submit it, get feedback and help others to be more productive!
Tying the suite in to more online services will continue to make it more and more web-native, and... Read Full Story
Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard file format OpenOffice.org and others use. You may have come across file extensions like .odt(text), .ods(spreadsheets)and .odp(presentation). Microsoft Office,by default, does not recognise these file formats. You can open these files by installing a plugin from Sun Microsystem. Users of Office 2003, simply download and install the Sun ODF plugin. Users 0f office 2007 need to first install SP1 for MS office 2007, install the plugin. Then open... Read Full Story
PCWorld reports on the good year ODF had in 2008 . Competing against Microsoft’s MSOOXML format, ODF (OpenDocument Format) seems to be extending its lead:
ODF has now been approved as a technology standard for document exchange in 16 countries, including Brazil, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Russia, and Germany, according to the report. In the Netherlands, government agencies must select ODF-supported products in technology purchases of €50,000 (US$69,920) or more, and in Brazil... Read Full Story
OpenOffice is a free, Open Source alternative to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation software and drawing program and also allows to save to PDF file. In addition, OpenOffice offers enhanced printing capabilities and options for direct connection with external email programs as well as form-letter management to send letters to addresses from a database. Free OpenOffice.org For Windows 3.0.0 Final Read Full Story
A few weeks ago, Project Renaissance was officially launched.
Frank Loehmann explains: “Project Renaissance, to rethink the graphical user interface (GUI) and interaction of OpenOffice.org, was announced on OOoCon 2008 and has been officially launched this week. Renaissance is a long running project and will start from scratch, so please do not expect to see something in OOo 3.1.”
The project’s mission statement reveals its ambition and reflects its importance: “Create a User interface... Read Full Story
