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Archive for the ‘OpenOffice’ Category

July 5th, 2008

Go-OO: Your Office Suite

Go-OO is an OpenOffice.org fork that features faster load and response times, and several features not included in the standard version of the program. Go-OO’s user interface is more familiar, with lots of small pieces of polish. Go-OO has built in OpenXML import filters and it will import your Microsoft Works files. It has better […]

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June 13th, 2008

OpenOffice.org Free Support via Forum

OpenOffice.org, an alternative tool to Microsoft Office, brings free support via their community forum. The open-source office productivity suite recently added language support to its forum, catering larger audiences across the web. Initially launched with English, they now have Hungarian, French and Japanese language support enabling global sharing of knowledge and serves a venue […]

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May 31st, 2008

OOoLatex For Your OpenOffice

Yet another OpenOffice.org extension for you to try:
OOoLatex is a set marcos designed to provide latex support into OpenOffice. The extension contains two mains modules allowing to insert equations as emf or png images, the latex code is saved into the image attribute allowing reedition while simpler equations are expanded into symbol characters and then […]

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May 30th, 2008

NeoOffice Event at Milan Today!

FreeSMUG.org is hosting today NeoOfficeCon 2008 in Milan, Italy until tomorrow. The event is free where no registration is required. And it will be at @Work - an Apple Premium Reseller - in Milano, Italy. @Work is located at the following address:
via Carducci angolo Galleria Borella 3
20123 Milano
Patrick Luby and Ed Peterlin, NeoOffice […]

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May 29th, 2008

OpenDocument To DAISY Format

If you are using OpenDocuments, you can turn your text into audio formats. Try using this OpenOffice.org extension to convert your text to DAISY DBT Format. Digital Talking Book (DBT) is a multimedia representation of a print publication. In both instances the rendering of the audio is in human voice.

This extension allow users to export […]

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May 7th, 2008

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta for Testing!

Yes! OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta has been released for testing already. If you want to try it, download it here. The open source office suite now released a more enhanced product; of course just an upgrade of its later version. It is packed with lots of features which include Mac OS X Support, ODF 1.2 support […]

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April 18th, 2008

Trying out O3Spaces Workplace

If you want full collaboration among office suites, try O3Spaces Workplace which claims to be a web 2.0 enterprise extension of OpenOffice.org. If you are having problem on managing your documents and sharing them across a team, O3Spaces Workplace gives the solution for that dilemma.

O3Spaces Workplace brings document management and document collaboration features to OpenOffice.org […]

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March 30th, 2008

OpenOffice.org 2.4 officially released!

If you’re an OpenOffice.org user, please update it now to 2.4:
The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the leading open source office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.4 includes many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to all its core components. OpenOffice.org 2.4 is available for immediate download […]

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March 27th, 2008

Sun’s Weblog Publisher

Believe it or not you can post a blog entry using OpenOffice.org Writer or StarOffice 8. With Sun’s Weblog Publisher, you can easily create a post or edit and publish your entries to some supported blogging platform including Roller, WordPress, Generic ATOM and Generic MetaWeblog.
This tool is an extension available to make use of the […]

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March 23rd, 2008

Tips & Tricks: Mail Merge in Microsoft Word & OpenOffice

Learn how to merge data records for a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel:

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