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Taking a closer look at OpenOffice.org 2.0
Why all the open suites don' have an equivalent of OutlookHow long do we have to wait for an equivalent of outlook in open office 2.0RE: Taking a closer look at OpenOffice.org 2.0I am impressed. Being as though my main freelance function is automation solutions for all types of...
Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, jbenacerraf@..., OpenOffice.org 2.0, OpenOffice.org
Discussion threads 2007-09-11
Performing common PowerPoint tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Impress
Point By Point comparisonI would have appreciated a summery with point-by-point comparison and detail explanation.
Tags: OpenOffice.org 2.0, Impress, Performing, powerpoint, openoffice, Point, hulyalkar@..., Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org
Discussion threads 2006-06-20
Performing common Word tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Writer
Many folks may be a bit apprehensive about making the switchfrom Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org because of the learning curve. Sure thecost difference, several hundred bucks vs. free, is very, very attractive! Butis that savings going to be eaten away by training costs and lost productivity?Fortunately, the answer is no!...
Tags: Greg Shultz, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Writer
Technical articles 2006-06-06
Performing common PowerPoint tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Impress
When you need to present information to a group of people, OpenOffice.org2.0's Impress makes it very easy for you to create professional slide shows. Infact, you'll discover that Impress contains almost as many fancy bells andwhistles as PowerPoint. To achieve this feat Impress provides you with accessto a host of...
Tags: animation, Greg Shultz, Impress, Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org
Technical articles 2006-06-08
Deploying and installing OpenOffice.org 2.0
In addition to being free, OpenOffice.org 2.0 is verycompatible other office suites such that it's extremely easy to convert andcontinue to work with all documents created with other packages, thus making itan ideal way to move your small or medium sized business up to the next levelwithout all the hassle...
Tags: Greg Shultz, Java, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice.org 2.0
Technical articles 2006-05-24
Performing common Excel tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Calc
Many folks may be a bit apprehensive about making the switchfrom Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org because of the learning curve. Sure thecost difference, several hundred bucks verses free, is very, very attractive!But is that savings going to be eaten away by training costs and lostproductivity? Fortunately, the answer is no!...
Tags: Calc, DataPilot, Greg Shultz, Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice.org 2.0, spreadsheet
Technical articles 2006-05-25
Taking a closer look at OpenOffice.org 2.0
If you're like most IT folks, you've been using the mainMicrosoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) for as long asyou can remember. After all Microsoft Office has come pre-installed on new PCsfor years and many companies have standardized on it. Having been stuck in theMicrosoft Office world for...
Tags: OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Greg Shultz, StarOffice
Technical articles 2006-04-13
Upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0
Suse desktop 10 Download freeSuse Desktop 10 Ships with open office 2.0Download Free athttp://www.opensuse.org/DownloadDocumentation athttp://www.opensuse.org/DocumentationFeatures * Firefox 1.0 * OpenOffice.org 2.0 * Beagle * Photo tools * VoIP * Easy wireless networking...
Tags: hardware, now suse desktop easy to get, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice.org 2.0, richard@..., shipped with suse 10, SuSE, SuSE Linux
Discussion threads 2005-12-06

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Upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0
Vincent Danen tells you why OpenOffice.org 2.0 is worth the immediate upgrade and the easiest way to install it. OpenOffice.org is the freely available and freely developed successor to Sun's StarOffice and is a full office suite available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Recently, the...
Tags: OpenOffice.org, Vincent Danen, OpenOffice, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Linux Tips Newsletter, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems
Technical articles 2005-12-02
Performing common Access tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Base
While OpenOffice.org has always provided database front endtools it never really contained its own database application. With 2.0,OpenOffice.org now comes with Base, which still provides an easy-to-usedatabase manager but also provides fully integrated HSQL database engine, whichstores data in XML files. Now you can create and modify tables, forms, queries,and...
Tags: Base, database, Greg Shultz, Microsoft Access, OpenOffice.org
Technical articles 2006-06-12
What's new in OpenOffice.org 3.0
He is correct.For those of us on Winders, its posted twice.JamesOOXMLThank the Lord! I've been wanting this for a while now. Everyone saves their files from Word in those formats around campus and I stuck using a trial version of Office to open them. I'm happy they've included it :)I...
Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Version 3, OpenOffice.org, SoftMaker Office, OpenOffice, Java
Discussion threads 2008-11-24
Openoffice.org 2.0 installing file
I need the installing file of the old version of openoffice 2.0 for recovering purpose.Where can I find it or may be someone can send it to me through the forum or by email?You can download it herehttp://download.openoffice.org/Look lower under 'other versions'
Tags: OpenOffice, meir-ul@..., OpenOffice.org
Discussion threads 2009-02-05
Performing common Access tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Base
If you want to put together an adhoc database to track information in your organization, you may not want to shell out the money necessary to buy a copy of Microsoft Access or upgrade your copy of Microsoft Office to include Access. That's where OpenOffice 2.0's Base comes in. Greg...
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Database, Microsoft Access, OpenOffice.org, Greg Shultz, screenshots, OpenOffice, Databases, Microsoft Office, Storage, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware
Image galleries 2007-05-18
OOSearch 0.2.1 (Mac)
OOSearch is a full text search program for OpenOffice.org files. It opens all OpenOffice.org files in a specified directory or volume and searches for a given keyword. The found files can be opened via OOSearch directly. OOSearch is a Cocoa Application written in Java and runs on Mac OS X...
Tags: Apple Macintosh, OpenOffice.org, OOSearch, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies
Software downloads 2005-06-25
Installing OpenOffice2.0
Need to install OpenOffice 2.0. New to this process. I have the file *tar.gz which has been extracted to several folders, some containing rpm files. I know an rpm is an installable file, but how do I get this to run? There are several *core files...
Tags: BarryVG
Q&A 2006-01-05
Performing common Excel tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Calc
Calc serves as the spreadsheet component of OpenOffice. If you're a long-time Excel user, you may be wary of doing things in Calc. Greg Shultz shows how to perform common Excel tasks inside this open source alternative. by Greg Shultz
Tags: screenshots, TechRepublic Inc., OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Excel, Calc, Greg Shultz
Image galleries 2007-09-18
Performing common Word tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Writer
Switching from one word processor can mean learning a whole new set of commands and ways of doing things. The creators of OpenOffice tried hard to make Writer work and act just like Microsoft Word. Greg Shultz shows how it works. by Greg Shultz
Tags: screenshots, TechRepublic Inc., OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Greg Shultz
Image galleries 2007-09-19
MS Office 2007 versus Open Office 2.2 shootout
After yesterdays blog about the relevance of feature bloat, I figured that I would follow up with some quantitative analysis on the performance characteristics to measure resource bloat. This isnt the first time Ive measured Office CPU and Memory consumption of Microsoft Office and Open Office, I had a...
Tags: News, Microsoft, Desktop
Blog posts 2007-04-27
OpenOffice Blah Blah Blah
Open OfficeHello, I hope someone can help me. A friend gave me an old computer of hers last fall and the platform is Windows 2000 Professional. The software is Open Office. I also have another computer with Windows 95 and Microsoft Office 2000 for the software. My question is: Is...
Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Word, OOo, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Office
Discussion threads 2008-01-16
Cross-platform OpenOffice bug discovered
In a somber reminder that security vulnerabilities can strike anywhere, security experts have discovered a cross-platform vulnerability in OpenOffice.org that could allow remote code execution on Windows, Linux, and MacOS-based computers. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers in iDefense, who found that OpenOffice version 2.0.4 and earlier...
Tags: Vulnerability, OpenOffice, Open Source, Security, Office Suites, Software, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-09-28
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