Apache's OpenOffice Writer is a versatile program, with one of its strengths being the ability to open and read document formats from other word processors, such as Microsoft Word and the .doc and ...

OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software suite. Using OpenOffice may save your business money, but if your company has already installed Microsoft Office, you can ...

With a few settings tweaks and cautious formatting, you can keep from losing features when moving files between the two word processors. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

Windows warrior Dennis O'Reilly takes a look at making Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org's Writer app play nice together—as nice as possible, anyway—for those dual-booting, rocking OO.org without Word ...

If you think that you always get what you pay for, the just-released beta of OpenOffice 3.0 should convince you otherwise. This free, open-source software suite provides most of what anyone could want ...

Irene, meet the readers. Readers, this is Irene. For the next three months, she'll be going where few PAs have ventured before. She's exploring an alternative to MS Word, and Hands on will report her ...

Apache OpenOffice is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. Apache OpenOffice is a full suite of office applications: word processor, database, spreadsheet, presentation, and graphics. Each of them ...

A conservative, we once read, is a person who wants tomorrow to be much like today, only a little better. If so, then this correspondent is a word-processing Tory. We remember grinning in the 1990s ...

If you think that you always get what you pay for, the just-released beta of OpenOffice 3.0 should convince you otherwise. This free, open-source software suite provides most of what anyone could want ...

Beta of the open source office suite brings a new Start Centre and some added features that provide a serious, free alternative to Microsoft Office If you think that you always get what you pay for, ...