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 ...

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.

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 ...

Linux only: Expand OpenOffice.org's document opening, saving, and conversion powers to Office 2007 documents with the Open XML Translator, a free plug-in intended for Ubuntu systems (although ...

One of the least understood features of OpenOffice.org is graphics text. People understand vaguely that it differs from regular text, but exactly how it differs or why anyone should care is mostly ...

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 ...