IBM has finally taken the big leap to support rival Sun's OpenOffice.org project, a move that could have significant impact on the adoption of the open source Office suite. As part of that commitment, ...

Mail merges are a means of using fields to create multiple copies of a document. They got their name because one of the most common uses for the tool is to address letters to different destinations.

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 ...