The first few times I worked on Word files in the OpenOffice.org Writer program, I was satisfied if the documents opened at all. That's a long way from being able to trust the open-source app with ...

How to Open Open Office Documents in Word. OpenOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software suite. Using OpenOffice may save your business money, but if your company ...

Apache OpenOffice – Free Open-Source Office Software Apache OpenOffice is one of the leading open-source office productivity software for word processing.

Patrick Marshall answers readers' tech questions. This week's topics cover Word, Defender and security, and emails disappearing from a phone.

We test drove OpenOffice on a PC running Windows 7 Release Candidate and couldn't find any compatibility issues. Likewise, complex Word documents opened with formatting essentially intact.

If you use the Apache OpenOffice suite for your word processing needs, OpenOffice Writer includes a handy word count analysis tool that also displays the number of characters in the document or a ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, rivals Microsoft and OpenOffice.org both released toolkits that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites. OpenOffice’s toolkit ...