Open Office
Your free MS Office Replacement
OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.0 RELEASED
A new splash screen upon launch
Support for sharing Excel workbooks
Support for Excel sheets with up to 1024 columns
A solver component for solving optimization problems
Better polished crop and drawing tools
The display of multiple Writer pages while editing
Inclusion of Office commenting / change tracking in the document margin
Some support for Visual Basic macros
Enhanced support for [...]
30 Similarities between Microsoft Office PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress
by Solveig Haugland, June 2008
This is another article in my series showing the similarities
between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office (pre-Office 2007).
Using a new product requires some re-learning. That’s unavoidable. But you rarely have to learn an entirely new set of skills – it’s just that the new stuff sticks out at us. This article is to [...]
Exceptional Linux programs for Kids
There’s nothing worse than hearing how an entire school district is switching operating systems from Mac to Windows (or vice versa) because that’s what the “business” world relies on or some other blather. The costs associated with the transition are enormous and the whole ‘to do’ is unnecessary, because features on applications mimic one another. [...]
