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 ...

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 ...

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 uses the Open Document Format (ODF) as its standard. That's what the app automatically saves your files as, but you can change it when saving a document.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Office is an enduring hacker target. But researchers at the French Ministry of Defense say users of the OpenOffice.org software may be at even greater risk from computer viruses.

LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source.

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.