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OpenOffice.org

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OpenOffice.org is a free, multi-platform office suite. It includes key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, drawing program, and database module.

OpenOffice.org is an Open Source project and available on all major platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. At present, you can choose from more than 100 different language options.

OpenOffice.org avoids the risk of vendor lock-in because it uses a standardised, XML-based file format that makes interoperability easy and your documents future-proof.

OpenOffice.org is compatible with Microsoft Office. The latest version imports .docx files and continues to be able to read and write all the other Office formats.

Get OpenOffice.org

“OpenOffice.org is released under the LGPL licence. This means you may use it for any purpose—domestic, commercial, educational, public administration. You may install it on as many computers as you like. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees—anyone you like.”
download.openoffice.org

Contribute

Submitting Bug Reports

“Simple end users are really critical in the process of making the code better. It’s important for end users to understand how important they are in the process.” OpenOffice.org developer Florian Reuter discusses some of the issues and explains how you can take part.

Support

OpenOffice.org Forum

Interact with other OpenOffice.org users to help with your questions.
www.oooforum.org

Office 2007 to gain native ODF support early next year

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“Users will be able to set ODF as their default file formats under Office 2007, and Microsoft plans to continue support of the OOXML-ODF translator for those using older versions of Office.” Jacqui Cheng details Microsoft’s recent announcement to make Office 2007 compatible with OpenOffice.org.
Personally, I remain sceptical about Microsoft delivering on these promises. But genuine interoperability has to start from somewhere…
arstechnica.com

Users of Microsoft Office may also want to consider the Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office as an alternative solution.

Norway mandates open formats

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“In a move to ensure equal access to public information for Norwegian citizens, the government has decided to make the freely accessible document standards HTML, PDF, and ODF obligatory.” Justin Fielding reports on Norway joining countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Malaysia, Finland, France, Japan and Germany in a drive to make government documents more accessible.
techrepublic.com.com

OOo off the wall

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OpenOffice.org is a multi-platform application. These articles, written by Bruce Byfield for Linux Journal, are also applicable to OpenOffice.org installations on other platforms.

Setting up page styles in OOo Writer, Bullet proof templates, Style is everything, right?, Fonts of wisdom, Building characters, Shooting the sun, Paragraph styles, Part II, It’s numbering, but not as we know it, Getting in the frame, The outlining and the ecstasy, Macros and add-ons, Floating windows, My objects all sublime, ToCs, indexes and bibliographies in OOo Writer, Fielding questions Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4, Tabling the notion Part 1 Part 2, Recovering hidden treasures, Back to school with bibliographies, Adding AutoText to your work flow, Domesticating Autocorrect, Master documents, Find and replace, That’s your version-document control in OOo Writer, Paragraph and page spacing, Automating the creation of slide shows, Using master slides, Extensions for OOo Draw, Template collections, New add-ons for OOo Writer, Text flow in OOo Writer, Basic arithmetic and statistic functions, Creating business cards, Rounding off numbers, Pivot tables by another name, Writer’s tools, Extensions for OOo Impress’s tools, Manipulating lists in OpenOffice.org Calc