One of the perqs of being a journalist is that I often hear about software and events before most people. A case in point is Writer's Tools, an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer being developed by ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The Writer's Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an ...

Indexes and tables is the phrase that OpenOffice.org Writer uses for tables of contents (ToCs), indexes and bibliographies. The term also covers ToC variants, such as lists of illustrations or tables.

OpenOffice.org Writer beta handled the first two documents just fine with hardly any format differences (nothing that mattered at any rate). The third document was a different matter. The formatting ...

OpenOffice.org Writer gives you two ways to change the indentation in your documents: visually or numerically. Either method allows you to alter left, right and first-line indentation. Click the ...

We’re back again with more tips and tricks on transitioning to OpenOffice.org (OOo). We’ve covered a lot of ground already; we’ve added features, figured out how to do things in OOo that differ from ...

The open-source office application suite, a free alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office, is nearing final release on version 2.4. With OpenOffice.org on track to launch version 3.0 later this ...

Using the free and open-source productivity suite OpenOffice.org can be a godsend for those that don’t want to hand over more money to Microsoft. Its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and ...