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OpenOffice is much more than a simple alternative to Microsoft Office... Here, we’ll show you some simple tips and tricks so that you can use OpenOffice in the easiest and most efficient way possible

We’ve talked up OpenOffice before in other articles, but the software is worth a closer look since more and more companies are beginning to dole it out to employees. OpenOffice is much more than a simple alternative to Microsoft Office. This administrative tool includes word processing, spreadsheets, a multimedia presentation program, a drawing tool, a database manager and a math program. Whew! Here, we’ll show you some simple tips and tricks so that you can use OpenOffice in the easiest and most efficient way possible. All the information that we’ve included works just as well on OpenOffice 2 as it does on the new beta 3 version. It’s straightforward and easy — we promise.

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Comments (4)

rijelkentaurus ·
...so they can show 20 pages of ads for this article. He lost me at page three...pointless drivel up to then touting basic functionality. Yes, OOo 3 has great potential and is going to be a very nice office suite...but this is just blatantly designed for ad revenue.
tracyanne ·
OO.o 3 Beta does a great job of opening and saving OfficeXML files. Text doesn't quite match the MS Office formattting, but Calc looks exactly the same as the MS Office spreadsheet version.
jdixon ·
> OO.o 3 Beta does a great job of opening and saving OfficeXML files.

An unsolicited testimonial:

I downloaded the Windows version of beta 2 at work today. We have a user who cannot save any changes to an Excel spreadsheet. She can open it and make the changes with no problems, but as soon as she tries to save it Excel crashes. I opened the file in Open Office and resaved it in Excel format. Now she can open, save, and change it with no problems.

Some of our locations are on Office 2003 while this one is still on Office 2000. I suspect some subtle differences in the file formats between the two versions are causing these problems, as this is the second one of this nature I've encountered in the past few weeks.

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