OpenOffice.org's (OOo) word processor, called Writer, has an embedded calculating facility similar to a spreadsheet. This article shows how to use it by building an invoice template with account aging ...

You can convert OpenOffice.org text documents to Excel with the text import tool. Save the text document with the .txt file extension, open it in Excel and save it as an Excel spreadsheet.

How to Count Characters in Your OpenOffice Documents. Character count in text can be an important number, especially when dealing with design and formatting for newsletters or product copy. It may ...

Lincoln Mullen talks about Pandoc - a command line tool that converts your text into many different formats.

The blog Writer for Writers describes how to e-mail yourself a backup copy of any active OpenOffice.org document.All you need is Email Backup, a new O ...

hii just installed openoffice.org 1.0 last night from their debian unstable packages (the woody ones weren't working for some reason). anyway, it went fine, but when i open up Writer (didn't try ...