Plan-B for OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org 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.org 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. WRITER is OpenOffice.org's word processor: use it for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book with embedded illustrations, cross-references, tables of contents, indexes, bibliographies... Auto-complete, auto-format, and real-time spelling check ... Read Full Story

By freesoft | Aug 25, 2009 OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, community-developed, multiplatform office-productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft´s. Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Additional ports, such as for FreeBSD, IRIX, and Mac OS X, are in various stages of completion. ... Read Full Story

We have now borrowed the term “surf” the Web of hypertext documents, since it is the only way to fully understand how you can scroll in all its parts, a document created with a text editor. But, while a network in the navigation is obvious, as you can navigate a document offline in order to find the parts that interest, if the document is very long? Well, OpenOffice.org offers a tool for this purpose: the “Navigator”. The term indicates exactly its main function: to move between different parts of the document, depending on the research set. The browser opens on clicking on an intuitive ... Read Full Story

Microsoft Office Word has a signature field that you can use to sign the document by hand. We employed the same argument also talking about OneNote, and now we have come to OpenOffice.org Writer. The latter has a quality that facilitates this task: the drawing tools are integrated in the text and easily accessible in the process of writing. Once edited the document, choose where to insert the signature and, if possible, to give ourselves a tablet pen. The mouse can go well, but useless to deny that the handwriting is not perfect as with the tablet. However, click the “See the drawing function, ... Read Full Story

The text editor now have decorative elements that can be used to customize or improve the look and feel of the document or enrich the sound effects and video. OpenOffice.org Writer is no exception and, in the latest version, has raised a host of additional factors of the text, collect them all into a gallery. To access this, simply click on the icon that represents a small part, as shown in the picture. Otherwise, it is also accessible from the menu “Tools | Gallery. Once you open the tunnel, a “showcase” in the formatting toolbar will show all items collected by category. This order ... Read Full Story