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… ...

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 ...

Depending on the OpenOffice program you are using, such as Writer or Calc, the method to insert a border differs.

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 ...

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 ...

While, officially, OpenOffice isn't dead yet, for all practical purposes it's been a dead program running for years now. It started when Oracle, then OpenOffice's sponsor, kicked out the ...

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

Q: My OpenOffice program freezes whenever I try to change the format of a file, even if the change is only switching from portrait (vertical) to landscape (horizontal) view.

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

OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost ...

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

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 ...