I don’t know why, but, occasionally, people may have to do minimal or even considerable statistical calculations using Calc, the OpenOffice.org’s spreadsheet part of the Office Productivity Suite. Although, I wouldn’t recommend doing so since there are other, better software packages to complete simple and complex statistical analyses, such as R, a statistical...
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Image via Wikipedia <Update> Soon after I hit the PUBLISH button, I received via email, the OpenOffice.org newsletter, with an extensive list of openoffice.org related blogs.</Update> Although there is an abundance of information available at the official openoffice.org site regarding the usability and how to make openoffice.org, the free open productivity suite, work better for your...
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With the new release of the OpenOffice.org free application suite, the use of extensions enhancing the capabilities of the suite is easier than ever. As a matter of fact, the use of extensions is almost required in version 3.0 as the dictionaries and other linguistic aspects of the suite are handled via extensions. ...
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By now, most of the world knows that the new version of Openoffice.org, the free office application suite, is out. Earlier, servers at openoffice.org were busy serving the various choices for win, linux, and Mac OS X (and at some point, they were so slow with incoming traffic). This is the first openoffice version...
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Image via Wikipedia From the pages of this blog I have written about how to open a docx (office 2007) file in openoffice. This happens frequently with a client, a customer, a colleague who just updated (or was forced to update) to the newest version of Microsoft’s Office suite. And many readers...
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An experimental extension to edit pdf documents in open office is now available at the extensions repository. It is only available for the beta version of openoffice (ie, it will not work with openoffice 2.x) and is fine if you want to manipulate small pieces of the pdf text (and the source...
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As reported in the gullfoss a new development snapshot for the upcoming open office 3 has become available through the usual channels. In past postings, I have also mentioned that upcoming releases will be available for the amd64 platform, too, and this release is no exception. Go ahead and download and of course enjoy! I. Powered by ScribeFire.
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It has just been reported at gullfoss, that there is a new dev build release of openoffice 3 (this would be developer snapshot build DEV300_m16). In addition to bringing us one step closer to the much expected OOo version 3, this dev build can be installed side by side to the “regular” OOo release, for...
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Image via Wikipedia The following links may be useful to the many users of OpenOffice.org, the free, open source Office Productivity Suite. To say more about the suite itself would be an exercise in futility. I urge interested readers to visit and to explore the huge openoffice site to find out more about...
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Image via Wikipedia From the pages of this blog, I wrote in the past about the ability of openoffice to open and save in the notorious docx (and xlsx and pptx) format the new MS Office 2007 introduced. My focus at the time was (and still is) how this can be done in various...
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