OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office suite. Designed to compete with software such as Microsoft Office and Corel's WordPerfect Office, it includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation ...

Give your Writer documents, Calc spreadsheets, and Impress presentations more impact by using the great add-ons for the productivity suite. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

In last week's shootout, where I matched Microsoft Excel against OpenOffice.org Calc, OpenOffice.org came out on the short end of the stick in my benchmark tests. The tests not only showed Excel to ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. This enterprise-level open-source Microsoft Office ...

How does OpenOffice.org (OOo) compare with Microsoft Office (MSO)? The question is harder to answer than you might expect. Few users have the experience or patience to do a thorough comparison. Too ...

OpenOffice Calc is a highly popular program thanks to its possibilities to create graphs, formulas, edit spreadsheets and perform complicated calculations. The software is also very customizable: you ...

Programmers release a major overhaul to the open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

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Some developers of the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite announced a break from Oracle on Tuesday, introducing a new name for the project and establishing a new foundation to guide its future.