After spending two weeks using OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office, Dan Farber shares his initial impressions of the free office suite.

Fortunately, OpenOffice.org Base makes setting up a database easy, giving you a more efficient way of handling data than a spreadsheet. Setting up a basic database in Base consists of two parts: ...

Let's face it, databases are only minimally human-readable. Or, at least, that's the case in OpenOffice.org Base, regardless of whether you view a database's tables directly or filter them through a ...

OpenOffice.org has released the latest version of its office productivity suite, promising enhanced security and access to more extensions. OpenOffice.org 2.3, which was made available for ...

The OpenOffice.org 3.0 desktop database application offers new features that make it better than previous versions, but it still lags behind what Microsoft Access offers. Among the key concerns is ...

After going premium and suffering some community fragmentation, the OpenOffice.org open source office suite is being taken in a new direction by a company named Ulteo. A brainchild of Gael Duval ...

OpenOffice.org A wonderful resource for OpenOffice.org templates, tips, and tutorials is Kaaredyret's all-purpose site. Monday: customize Windows' context (right-click) menu.

Overall, OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta feels like a solid evolutionary update with a handful of new features that will be useful to various niche user groups.

Then getthe latest version of OpenOffice.Org, a full-blown office suitethat includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program,database, drawing program, and math program.

In their words, "Due to the massive confusion about OpenOffice.org producing the mouse and the numerous questions about the mouse working with programs other than OpenOffice.org, we have mutually ...