Note: This book review was conducted as an audio interview of macros expert John Dukovich, by Phil Shapiro, using Audacity, the free sound recording and editing software. The review is available in ...

As functionality traditionally associated with desktop applications moves to the Web, developers are looking for new ways to handle that computational heavy lifting on the server side. But if you need ...

The real power of an OpenOffice spreadsheet comes from the time-saving and analytical abilities delivered through the use of formulas. Keeping your data consistent and predictable, however, requires ...

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 ...

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Add graphs and charts to your Apache OpenOffice documents and bring your numbers and statistics to life. You can insert the graphs directly into the Writer application, then add or make changes to ...

OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite–including tools for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows and more—with one major additional feature: it’s free. Whether OpenOffice 3—the first ...

If you think that you always get what you pay for, the just-released beta of OpenOffice 3.0 should convince you otherwise. This free, open-source software suite provides most of what anyone could want ...

OpenOffice 1.0 is a multi-platform office suite based on the StarOffice code base. It includes standard applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager and a ...