OpenOffice has been an open-source project for nearly six years now, and the project has grown and matured considerably during that time. Originally based on the code from StarOffice, a creaky ...

When it comes to open source office suites, most people choose OpenOffice or LibreOffice, and they both look suspiciously similar. That isn’t surprising since they both started with exactly t… ...

In Part 1, we studied the fundamental concepts of OpenOffice.org's software development kit (SDK) and how the SDK can be used to communicate with the OOo programs. We now are ready to write an ...

To automatically open Word files in OpenOffice, change the default program to OpenOffice on either Windows 8 or Windows 7 workstations.

How to Flip Things in OpenOffice. Business graphics don't have to be bland and boring when you have the ability to manipulate them in a variety of creative ways. OpenOffice, the free office ...

If you should choose to use the OpenOffice program to open the newer Microsoft Office Open XML documents, be aware that OpenOffice cannot save documents in the Open XML format. It can, however ...

You can add fonts, templates, extensions, and other features to ease the adjustment to OpenOffice.org's suite of productivity applications.

Patrick Marshall answers readers' tech questions. This week's topics cover Word, Defender and security, and emails disappearing from a phone.

Microsoft Corp. is expanding a program to give government organizations access to some of its tightly guarded software blueprints amid growing competition from rivals who make such source code ...

The Apache OpenOffice program may be in trouble -- is LibreOffice the future of open source office suites?

They are located in OpenOffice directory /program. regmerge can merge them in one registry file that later can be processed by cppumaker. Doing it this way gives us a registry bigger than we need, but ...

The Apache OpenOffice program may be in trouble -- is LibreOffice the future of open source office suites?