Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The Writer's Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an ...

One of the perqs of being a journalist is that I often hear about software and events before most people. A case in point is Writer's Tools, an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer being developed by ...

I'm sure that most people hardly think about page options in OpenOffice.org Writer. The average person may change the paper orientation from portrait to landscape, or narrow the margins to squeeze ...

OpenOffice.org Writer beta handled the first two documents just fine with hardly any format differences (nothing that mattered at any rate). The third document was a different matter. The formatting ...

Using the free and open-source productivity suite OpenOffice.org can be a godsend for those that don’t want to hand over more money to Microsoft. Its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and ...

Staying productive and competitive in the digital age often requires finding faster ways to do things. Saving OpenOffice Writer files may be one repetitive task that you perform frequently. Because ...

The OpenOffice.org development team has released the second beta of the forthcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite. The latest beta includes a number of new features that will make the wait for 3.0 ...

OpenOffice.org Writer gives you two ways to change the indentation in your documents: visually or numerically. Either method allows you to alter left, right and first-line indentation. Click the ...

The OpenOffice.org productivity suite will ditch the need for Mac users to run the X11 windowing system with Version 3.0. The update, now with a Beta Version in release, will offer limited VBA support ...

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Becoming the Next Mozilla Firefox? Upon reviewing the news of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 launch, I ran across an interesting opinion on OSDir about the Mozillarization of OpenOffice.org ...

OpenZone has announced PlusOffice Mac, a productivity software package for the Mac expected to be released in January, 2009 for Intel-based Macs. PlusOffice Mac is open-source software, and it shares ...