OpenOffice has several modules to help you draft clean, grammatically valid text documents. You can activate automatic spellchecking, access a thesaurus, or add non-standard dictionaries.

Select Microsoft Word &#151 the de facto standard for business documents &#151 and feel safe knowing that now anyone can read the documents you send. Your printer will also thank you for selecting ...

The extension, OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs, will export OpenOffice documents to both Google Docs and Zoho. It will import them from both services as well.

On Monday, Upstartle said that users can also upload OpenOffice documents onto Writely. OpenOffice is an open-source desktop productivity suite that uses the OpenDocument document formats.

OpenOffice 2.0.1 now comes on a flash drive--but an analyst claims that at 144MB, the software's too bloated to be truly portable. The latest version of Portable OpenOffice.org, an edition of the ...

OpenOffice can run on all major operating systems. Further, it can open files created in practically all versions of Microsoft’s Office—even some earlier ones that Office 2007 finds incompatible.

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 ...

OpenOffice.org has released a patch for three security vulnerabilities in its popular open-source office software suite. Maliciously crafted Java applets can break out of the sandbox (the security ...

Microsoft Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.