Open Office

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.  

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  

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...  

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

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...  

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...  

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...  

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...  

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...  

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 ....  

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...  

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  

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...  

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."