The office suite. Ah the importance you hold over the PC user. You help our business to flow, you help us to draft our papers and novels, and you help us communicate. But what of those users who previously were using Microsoft Office or any other office suite? How does one gain any sort of [...]

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Open Office 3.2.0 Final has been released and is currently distributed to mirror ftp servers worldwide to ensure a smooth delivery once the release notifications will be added to the project’s homepage. Five release candidates and numerous betas have made available before the developer’s of Open Office decided to release the final version of the [...]

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The release of Open Office 3.2 RC1 offers speed improvements, a handful of other features and lots of bug fixes that might make it worth for some users to switch to this version before the final version of Open Office 3.2 is released. The Open Office developers have created a features page for the first [...]

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The idea behind Open Office 4 Kids is to provide a version of Open Office for children between the age of 7 and 12. The project is in its early stages with version 0.5 recently released to the public. The main difference between Open Office and Open Office 4 Kids are the missing features in [...]

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Open Office 3.2 Beta has been released yesterday which gives users and developers a preview of the final Open Office 3.2 release which is slated for a December release. A list of changes and additions to this version of the Open Source Microsoft Office alternative has been posted at the official website. The list format [...]

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If you need to create a presentation but do not have access to Microsoft Power Point you can either use another software program like Open Office to create the presentations or use an online service like 280 Slides to create them. The benefit of using an online solution is that it can be used without [...]

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I get this a lot “How can I open and edit PDF files without having to purchase a costly application like QarkXPress”? Before OpenOffice extensions came about my answer to that would be “Not easily”. But now, thanks to a very useful tool created by Sun, editing a PDF file is as simple as adding [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Just about fifteen minutes ago I was working on an article for Linux.com when I thought I was going to lose a ton of work. I was writing my last paragraph on a 1,600+ word article (entering the article in their web-based system). I was going back to OpenOffice to copy and paste all of [...]

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There are quite a few ways of opening Microsoft Excel spreadsheets if Microsoft Excel is not installed on the computer system. The article will outline several popular ways of opening Excel spreadsheets so that the contents can be at least read and printed. Several of the methods even allow to work with the contents of [...]

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