Working with files in a range of formats is an age-old problem in the office, but more often than not, the open source suite of applications offered by OpenOffice can handle any file. One situation ...

If your computer crashes or locks up while you are working on a document in OpenOffice.org, your work may not be lost permanently if you have enabled the OpenOffice AutoRecovery feature. This feature ...

OpenOffice.org's (OOo) word processor, called Writer, has an embedded calculating facility similar to a spreadsheet. This article shows how to use it by building an invoice template with account aging ...

The blog Writer for Writers describes how to e-mail yourself a backup copy of any active OpenOffice.org document. All you need is Email Backup, a new OpenOffice extension. Once it's installed, you ...

An improvement on OpenOffice 3.0 and good for a free product, but some people will find it awkward to use Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you ...

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