Once, whenever you referred to the free productivity suite that competes with Microsoft Office, people knew exactly which program you were talking about. Lately, though, OpenOffice — formerly of ...

More details have emerged about the forthcoming cloud-based version of Apache OpenOffice (AOO). A cloud version of OpenOffice writer, AOO's document editor, was shown at a presentation at the ...

Now OpenOffice has its first major update since 2011, Apache OpenOffice 4.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. It promises hundreds of bug fixes, better compatibility with Microsoft Office documents, support ...

As I reported on May 31st, 2011, Oracle has, with IBM's encouragement, given the open-source OpenOffice office suite to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). IBM's Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of Collaboration ...

Microsoft’s Office may be the go-to productivity suite in the business world, but there’s apparently plenty of room out there for challengers to thrive: On Thursday, the Apache Software Foundation ...

Apache's OpenOffice suite supports almost three dozen languages through the installation of separate language packs. After you install a particular language, you can ...

OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost all ...

If you have an image that is sideways or in any other angle besides the desired one in OpenOffice Writer, you may find that you cannot rotate an image directly within the program. As a work-around, ...