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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people are content to let their word processor determine hyphenation and text breaks for them. And, most of the time, the result is acceptable if they do. However, just as the default ...

OpenOffice.org is an office package by Sun Microsystems. The package was initially introduced for *nix OSes and Sun OS machines, and was later compiled for Windows. It’s free, and is probably the best ...

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 ...

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, ...