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The new release of TeamDrive 2.2 extension for OpenOffice.org is now available to download. The TeamDrive collaboration software enables easy and secure work over the Internet, guaranteeing that your privacy remains so. Whether you‘re working as a ...  

HAMBURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The new release of TeamDrive 2.2 extension for OpenOffice.org is now available to download. The TeamDrive collaboration software enables easy and secure work over the Internet, guaranteeing that your privacy remains so. Whether you‘re working as a team, mobile or between your home and your company: every single file and document, always up-to-date and even offline, is readily available to OpenOffice users by dint of...  

What if you were asked to add a mathematical formula into an OpenOffice.org document? How would you do that? This article will demonstrate how OpenOffice.org Math can let you do this with ease.  

I’m happy to announce that updated OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 packages in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:STABLE project.  It includes many useful fixes. See also the original announce for more details about the 3.1.1 release. Also you might try the OOo-3.2-beta build that is available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project. See the 3.2-beta3 announce for more details. The beta4 build should be available in the middle of the fillowing...  

GullFOSS: "I know some of you read the title and thought “Oh cool! I'm dying for a new user interface (UI). When will it finally be ready?” At the same time, some of you thought “Nooooooo! I like the UI already, even if there are a few little things here and there that annoy me. I wish they would stop this talk of a new UI.”"  

As part of the Build Environment Effort we did a proof-of-concept reimplementation of the current build system. There was a plethora of reasons for this: Our current build system is handling parallelization in a very cumbersome way: Both build.pl and dmake can do parallelization, but they do not know of each other, and thus a build -P4 -- -P4 might happily run 16 processes in parallel. Our current build system does not support...  

Computeractive Staff, Computeractive, Friday 4 December 2009 at 10:00:00 Stop Openoffice Calc from displaying sheet and page numbers Q I use the Openoffice Calc spreadsheet to type lists. When I print these lists, the page always prints with the words 'Sheet 1' at the top and 'Page 1'...  

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m66 which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (see i107355) is available for download. If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. Please use the following link:http://download.openoffice.org/next Release Notes:http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html MD5 checksums:http://download.openoffice.org/next...  

One of OpenOffice.org's greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time.  

For those users of Microsoft Office looking to migrate to a more cost-effective, less-limiting office suite, you have made the right choice. And for those users who actually want to take advantage of more than the basics of the tools, there are plenty there for you to enjoy.  

If you've ever created a presentation you know how much can be done with these outstanding tools.  Of course many users only take advantage of a mere portion of the the features available. Why is this? For most people it is a simple fact of not knowing the feature exist.  

No, this is no April fools joke—at least, we don't think so. OpenOffice.org now has its own pointing device thanks to WarMouse, a little-known firm that's announced an 18-button monstrosity geared for the multi-platform productivity suite. Behold: Yes, the OOMouse has 18 buttons (all...  

Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. This suite of tools serve as the open source equivalent to Microsoft Office and does so with ease and full functionality. OpenOffice.org Writer works very similarly to Microsoft Word.  

Currently, when the user closes his Gnome session and has still unsaved OpenOffice.org documents, OpenOffice.org is forced to close without asking if the unsaved documents should be saved. The result is that the user has to go thru the restoring proces... Task: i105172 Spec: - Mail: Mikhail.Voytenko@Sun.COM  

One of OpenOffice.org's greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Yet even those who are used to styles in Writer tend to overlook the styles used in other applications. That is especially true of graphic styles. read more  

Greetings everyone, My name is Tommy, Based on the tutorial codes written by hol.sten (http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3490=45), i've tried to write similar codes for the same purposes, but with an added complexity. I encounter quite a problem when i tried to...  

I’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.2 beta3 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project and include many upstream and Go-oo fixes. See also overview of integrated features and enhancements. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page. The package is a beta version and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are not intended for data-critical usage. A...  

Complex file formats, such as those used for office documents, inevitably lead to differences in interpretation by application developers. If a user sends a document to someone else who views it in a different application or version, chances are that the output shows some subtle differences or, by bad luck, that the formatting is completely munged. These problems are not tied to proprietary file formats: open standards such as ODF (Open...  

Linux.com: "For many people the mere thought of having to create or use a database sends shivers down the spines of many users. But it doesn't have to. Creating a database and adding data to that database is actually a simple task in OpenOffice.org Base."  

I quote a Press Announcement from Nov-10 OpenOffice.org Clarifies Status of the "OpenOffice Mouse The OpenOffice.org Community and WarMouse today issued the following statement to clarify the relationship between the two organisations (PRWEB) November 10, 2009 -- Contrary to recent press reports, the OpenOffice.org Community has no plans to ship a multi-button office application mouse by February next year. The "OpenOffice Mouse...  

Stop!: "OOo4Kids is a special version of OpenOffice.org (the popular, free and easy to use alternative to Microsoft Office) which is very interesting and useful not only for schools, but also for many adult users."  

Vincent Spiewak has finished his OpenOffice.org extension for converting ODF text documents to DAISY Digital Talking Books - you can find the press release here. The extension not only creates XML content, but also can make use of different text to speech engines, so you will have fully featured talking books. I recommend this extension for everybody who wants to create DAISY books. Binaries and source files are available on sourceforge...  

I’ve spent the last week in the city of Orvieto, perched atop a hill in Umbria, Italy.  Monday and Tuesday I particpated in the second ODF Plugfest, and then Wednesday through Friday I attended OOoCon, the annual OpenOffice.org conference.  I gave a presentation on Wednesday about Office’s approach to interoperability with OpenOffice.org, which you can find on the OOoCon presentation page, and you can find the presentations from the plugfest...  

1. Why I Dumped Microsoft Office – epmonthly.com, 11/11 The blogger has been using OpenOffice 3.2 beta for a week and said, “this program rocks...the developers of OpenOffice have really made a lot of great improvements.” He said the OpenOffice suite has “a good 90% of the functionality of Office 2003,” and pointed out that “there is a low learning curve for the transition between Microsoft Office and...  

If you haven't downloaded OpenOffice.org 3 yet, you may be missing something. Since OpenOffice.org 3 was released a year ago, it has been downloaded some 100 million times. Read more...OpenOffice.org 3 Downloaded 100 Million Times in one Year originally appeared on About.com Focus on Linux on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 22:31:21.Permalink | Comment | Email this  

No matter what kind of startup you're launching, you'll need at least some basic computer software to create invoices, write letters, and develop spreadsheets to track inventory or accounts payable. There are plenty of commercial software suites that offer the applications you need, but they're typically pretty pricey. is a great, and free, alternative. OpenOffice.org, or OOo as it is also known, comes bundled with several...  

Do not miss your opportunity to enter Christoph's time machine, if you could not attend this years OOoCon in Orvieto. Even if you have attended, it gives you the possibility to see the conference from a non-developers point of view. Enjoy! Best regards, Frank  

Linux Journal: "Here are three of the ones I've been test-driving recently: History Master, VisibleBookmarks, and Writer's Tools. All of them are installed in the usual way, by downloading them to your system, adding them through Tools -> Extension Manager, then restarting OpenOffice.org, although Writer's Tools does require some additional setup."  

In samenwerking met de makers van OpenOffice.org is WarMouse met een nieuwe muis op de proppen gekomen. Een muis, volledig gericht op het werken met OpenOffice.org. De muis wisselt voor ongeveer vijftig euro van eigenaar. OpenOffice.org is een bekende gratis office-suite. De office-versie, die hevig concurreert met Microsoft Office, biedt eigenlijk dezelfde functionaliteit als de office-versie ....  

Yesterday Vincent Spiewak announced the availability of the odt2daisy add-on to OpenOffice.org that will create full DAISY talking books for the blind and others with print impairments. Combined with the free and multi-platform OpenOffice.org office suite, the odt2daisy add-on enables for the first time completely free creation of digital audio talking books for the blind and print impaired - in both DAISY 3.0, and ANSI/NISO Z39.86 formats...  

Orvieto, Italy, November 6, 2009: In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support ... (Read on Source)  

Some words regarding the QA Camp last Thursday at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Orvieto, Italy: Last Thursday many interested people met in Orvieto to talk about QA related topics. People came from all around the world. Just to mention some of them: Takamichi Akyiama [known as Tora] (OOo, Japan)Shinji Enoki (OOo, Japan)Makoto Takizawa (OOo, Japan)André Schnabel (OOo, Germany)Jaqueline Rahemipour (OOo, Germany)Sophie Gautier (OOo...  

A mouse from OpenOffice.org and WarMouse, retailing for $75, offers 18 programmable buttons and default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications. - A computer mouse designed by WarMouse, in collaboration with OpenOffice.org, will feature 18 programmable buttons and is designed for a variety of software applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and OpenOffice. In addition the mouse...  

The OpenOffice.org Community is celebrating one hundred million recorded downloads for the latest version of its software, launched barely one year ago. A week of celebrations will peak at the Community's annual conference, opening in Orvieto, Italy on November 4th next week.......Continue Reading Filed under: Software Updates | Software News | Business | | | | | | | | |  

Is not a Joke, OpenofficeMouse is available, OOMouse is the first multi-button application mouse designed for a wide variety of software applications. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands  

VirtualBox VirtualBox received exuberant praise in both trade publications and on top blogs this week. InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy said VirtualBox “delivers tremendous virtualization power” and also noted that it “installs quickly, requires very little study, and includes all the essentials.” Ken Hess from Linux Magazine stated: “Yes, VirtualBox is all that and a bag of computer chips,” while Larry...  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CLARA, CA - 27 October 2009 - NeoOffice.org is pleased to announce the release of NeoOffice 3.0.1. NeoOffice 3.0.1 is available for all users from the NeoOffice download page. NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can...  

fuck that. where is the 19th button i asked for? John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead at OpenOffice.org, welcomed the announcement: “The OpenOffice Mouse is a really cool addition to the desk of any keen OpenOffice.org user. The Mouse team have worked closely with experts from the OpenOffice.org User Experience project to deliver the full benefits of the world’s leading open-source office software to the fingertips of users. The prototypes...  

Ever had to add up the columns in a table with mixed KB, MB and GB quantities like this: In Out Total 0.10KB 0.34KB 0.45KB 0.33MB 0.40MB 0.73MB 0.33KB 0.41KB 0.74KB 0.69GB 0.12GB 0.82GB Using...  

Slovenska slovarja za preverjanje črkovanja in deljenje besed. Slovenian spelling and hyphenation dictionaries. Uradna izdaja projekta sl.openoffice.org, ki je vključena tudi v vse slovenske različice paketa OpenOffice.org. Avtorji in zaslužni so podrobno navedeni v vsebovanih dokumentih in licencah. Če želite dopolniti slovarje s slovarjem sopomenk, posebej naložite razširitev OdprtiTezaver; slednja je še v razvojni fazi in bo vključena v ta...  

blogs.sun.com: The current setup of websites for downloading OpenOffice.org installation sets provides builds for several languages and operating systems. But nowadays a lot more are built. Unfortunately they are not that easy to find as they are on mirror servers. Advertisement: read more  

Did you know that OOo has its own YouTube channel? Check out the interesting and informative new videos available for your viewing and listening pleasure: Clayton Cornell live in  "OpenOffice.org - How to Contribute - Documentation Project" Rafaella Braconi in "OpenOffice.org - How to Contribute - L10n Project" Or even better...get on the fan page in Facebook and upload a video of yourself...  

"OpenOffice will be cheaper to maintain and will run better than Microsoft's proprietary alternative", expects Lars Roark, IT manager at the Danish municipality of Rødovre, according to reports in Danish media. According to Business DK, the Rødovre municipality has kept its move to OpenOffice under wraps, fearing criticism from Microsoft. According to the news site, the company is trying to get fired a colleague of Roark in the municipality...  

Congratulations to OpenOffice which hit a milestone 100 million downloads this week since the launch of version 3.0! The total download number is impressive because it only counts direct Internet downloads from the OpenOffice.org Web site and does not include installations included with various Linux distributions, copies distributed on CDs or other mirror sites. Project developer Joost Andrae announced on October 28th that the one hundred...  

Just over one year after the release of OpenOffice 3.0, OpenOffice.org (OOo) project developer Joost Andrae has announced that the free office suite has been downloaded more than one hundred million times since the launch of version 3.0. OpenOffice is an open source office suite from Sun Microsystems for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. The download total doesn't include, for example, installations included with various Linux distributions...  

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Friday 13 November 2009 at 09:30:00 It’s quick and easy to customise and personalise your correspondence and templates using Openoffice ­ we show you how Openoffice Writer is a great word processor and we often recommend it as an alternative to Microsoft Word if all you need to do is create simple documents....  

NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.......Continue Reading Filed under: Software Updates | Software News | Writing/Publishing |  

1. Countdown to OpenOffice 3.2 – Writer -– togsolutions.com, 11/4 The blogger is writing a multi-part series looking at the new and upgraded features coming in the 3.2 release of OpenOffice. He focused on changes to Writer in this post, saying they “should prove to be very useful” highlighting upgrades to the word correct-auto complete, alternative text for writer objects, and apply style shortcut functions...  

The OpenOffice.org conference will start in a few days. Two cappuccino and one espresso, per favore :-) The OOo User Experience Team will give two presentations and two workshops: Wednesday: (11-04) 12:15 PM: Project Renaissance - Designing a new user interface for OpenOffice.org; Building; Palazzo dei Sette; Room: Sette 3; (Andreas Bartel, Frank Loehmann) Thursday:  (11-05) 11:15 AM: Getting usagetracking...  

The OpenOffice.org Community and WarMouse today issued the following statement to clarify the relationship between the two organisations.......Continue Reading Filed under: News | | | | | | | | |  

I’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.2 beta2 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project and include many upstream and Go-oo fixes. See also overview of integrated features and enhancements. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page. The package is a beta version and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are not intended for data-critical usage. A...  

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m5 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded. If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. Please use the following link:http://download.openoffice.org/next Release Notes:http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m5_snapshot.html MD5 checksums:http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m5_md5sums.txt  

I’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.2 beta1 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project and include many upstream and Go-oo fixes. See also overview of integrated features and enhancements. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page. The package is the first beta version and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are not intended for data-critical...  

New-style service constructors in OpenOffice.org Basic Starting with OpenOffice.org 3.2 OpenOffice.org Basic allows to use UNO new-style service constructors (for more details please see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Services). To achieve this UNO services are now mapped to OpenOffice.org Basic objects. They have to be addressed by using the complete UNO namespace path. Let's take the example from...  

This is a reminder of the Education Project ClassRoom agenda : today, starting 17:00 CET (Paris Hamburg hour)and we are proud to receive Heiner Rechtien, Release Engineer à Sun Microsystems who will present us the OpenOffice.org migration to MercurialThis is an IRC ClassRoom Channel is #education.openoffice.org Server is irc.freenode.netEverybody interested is welcome. For the newcomers, we use to let the speaker explain everything and keep...  

Changes in Snow Leopard broke all previous versions of NeoOffice, the Mac-friendly version of the OpenOffice.org open source office suite. Version 3.0.1 provides compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6, along...  

An interesting piece of research came my way today courtesy of Computer Weekly magazine. They asked their tame panel questions about open-source versus commercial software, and published their findings here. The section of interest to OpenOffice.org enthusiasts states: The majority of panellists have not trialled or reviewed any office/desktop productivity software, although around a third (35%) have looked at Open Office. Those working in...  

This would make a utterly fascinating bar chart or pie chart or simple graph. Alas, I am incapable of making such a graph using OpenOffice. I used to be a whiz at making such things using Microsoft Excel. But I use Excel so little, I let the license lapse and went for the freebie. OpenOffice. (Bill [...]  

Spent an intense last week in Orvieto, Italy. First two days had the 2nd odf plugfest; glad to see so many enthusiastic people from the odf universe again, or for the first time in person – and of course witnessing big corporation representatives like Doug and Rob sitting on the table, striving for better odf interop. Following that had three days of OpenOffice.org conference, with many interesting talks (including those from my excellent...  

It was also good today to see a report on Oracle’s plans for OpenOffice.org. Sun Microsystems is OpenOffice.org’s founding and principle sponsor, so the news that Sun was to be acquired by Oracle had set hearts fluttering in the open-source world. It’s worth quoting the relevant section in full: What is Oracle’s plan for OpenOffice? Oracle has a history of developing complete, integrated, and open products, making integration quicker and less...  

At http://twitter.com/ooocon we've just set up a Twitter bot for the OpenOffice.org Conference. It checks Twitter every five minutes for posts with the tag #ooocon and retweets them automatically.It seems to take up to 30 minutes until the search gives new results, so postings are a little bit delayed, but please make use of it. :-) For everything OOoCon-related you twitter, simply add #ooocon and get listed!  

Some weeks ago I announced that our current build system is on trial. Starting with what you are reading now members of the team will report about some of our findings in the next days and weeks. I want to start with the topic “split build”. Why should we think about it? Currently there are only three ways to build OpenOffice.org: build single modules one by one build a single...  

Those of you who keep an eye on the download counter on the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet will have noticed we have been inexorably moving towards another significant milestone. When the latest figures appear tomorrow, we expect them to show that sometime today, the One Hundred Millionth (100,000,000) person clicked on the Download OpenOffice.org button since we released version 3 just over a year ago. Expect some pretty heavy celebrations...  

OO Pinyin Guide is a Java extension for OpenOffice 3 or higher. It automatically adds pinyin transliteration over chinese characters inside a text document. This tool can be useful for people learning or teaching chinese. It is basically an extended version of the "Asian Phonetic Guide" available in the OpenOffice Chinese extension. The improvement is that OO Pinyin Guide will automatically fill in the pinyin part instead and doesn't require...  

In a few days the OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 take place in Orvieto. I'll give there two presentations. On 4. November I speak about OpenOffice.org Portable and a new built enviroment for this special version of OpenOffice.org. This environment will make it very easy to create a new portable version.  

Think it's only gamers that require mice with more buttons than a scientific calculator? Then you've probably not met a die hard OpenOffice user, who now finally have a mouse to call their own in the form of the OpenOfficeMouse. Developed by WarMouse in partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, this corded point-and-clicker packs no less than 18 programmable buttons (each with double-click functionality), along with support for up to 63...  

When looking at the download counter more than 100.000.000 people downloaded OpenOffice.org since version 3.0 was released about a year ago. I think this is something we need to celebrate next week at the OpenOffice.org conference in Orvieto, Italy.  

With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org ...