Windows warrior Dennis O'Reilly takes a look at making Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org's Writer app play nice together—as nice as possible, anyway—for those dual-booting, rocking OO.org ...

All in all, OpenOffice 3.0 shows that you don’t have to pay a bundle for a great office suite — in fact, you don’t even have to pay a penny. Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.

Select these options in OpenOffice.org Writer to preserve Word features the open-source word processor doesn't support. To make Word's .doc file format the default in OOo Writer, click General ...

OpenOffice 3.0 only has the bare minimum (of course, this is a beta release, so this may change). That shouldn’t surprise anyone, considering that OpenOffice is free and without the backing of a ...

How to Open Open Office Documents in Word. OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software suite. Using OpenOffice may save your business money, but if your company ...

OpenOffice offers Writer (i.e.: Word), Calc (like Excel), Impress (like PowerPoint) and other open-source document software at openoffice.org.

OpenOffice.org, the free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office has released a beta preview of version 3.0. Among the changes in the new version are support for the Open Document Format v1.2 ...

By January, Novell said, users of the OpenOffice word processor will be able to read documents saved in the Office Open XML format, the default setting for Microsoft's recently released Office ...

Select "Word," and then click "Next." Enter a name for the document, and then click "Export." Launch OpenOffice Writer, select "File," click "Open," and then select the document you exported from ...

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 ...

OpenOffice 3.0 only has the bare minimum (of course, this is a beta release, so this may change). That shouldn’t surprise anyone, considering that OpenOffice is free and without the backing of a ...

Novell said Monday it is participating in an open-source project designed to bridge rival document formats and thus enable its OpenOffice.org customers to work with Microsoft Office documents ...