Bull Migrates Desktops to OpenOffice.org, Munich Succeeds With Migration as Well

Summary: More migrations to Free software are seen in Germany and setbacks are spotted elsewhere in Europe
OpenOffice.org continues to evolve under Oracle’s guard, which is good news. According to the following article, OpenOffice.org also continues to gain greater adoption in Germany. Here is Bull speaking about its migrations to OpenOffice.org
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How To install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How To install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu
This tutorial will explain how to install latest version of openoffice in ubuntu
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OpenOffice 3.2: more stability, more speed

The OpenOffice team have made version 3.2 of the open source office suite for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris available to download. It offers numerous enhancements over its predecessor which offer both stability and speed benefits. Writer and Calc, for example, should now start twice as fast as in version 3.1.1.
Improved Microsoft Office filters [...]

OpenOffice.org 3.2 is now available for download

At the start of its tenth anniversary year, and with over three hundred million downloads recorded in total, the OpenOffice.org Community today announced the release of the latest version of its personal productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 3.2 gets to work faster, offers new and improved functions, offers better compatibility with other office [...]

The Small Picture: More OpenOffice.org Extensions

Every few weeks, I like to browse the OpenOffice.org Extensions site to see what is available, and what people are using.
New extensions that are both useful and well-designed seem to be getting few and far between. However, if you search patiently, you can still find extensions worth trying.
Below, in no particular order, are the extensions [...]

Study: > 21% of German PCs run OpenOffice

According to Webmasterpro.de, a German IT service provider, the open source OpenOffice suite and its derivatives, such as StarOffice or IBM’s Lotus Symphony, are installed on more than 21% of German PCs. A sample of over one million German-speaking Internet users showed that 72% of users preferred Microsoft Office, while 2.7% preferred Corel’s WordPerfect, 1.4% [...]

OpenOffice.org Extensions for Business Users

OpenOffice.org is an excellent all-around productivity suite as it is, but you can add a few useful features using extensions to make it better suited for use in a business environment. Here are a handful of extensions worth considering if you are using OpenOffice.org as a business tool.
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OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (build OOO320_m9) available

OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available on the download website.
If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org’s bug tracking system IssueTracker:
Download website:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html
Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.2.0rc2.html
MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.2.0rc2_md5sums.txt

OpenOffice.org announces “end-of-life” for version 2.x of its productivity suite

A few weeks before the upcoming release of OpenOffice.org 3.2, the OpenOffice.org Community is formally announcing “end-of-life” status for the legacy version 2.x series of its productivity suite.
With each new release, users are strongly encouraged to upgrade, to benefit from new features, bug fixes and security improvements. After a new major [...]

Graphic styles in OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress

One of OpenOffice.org’s greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Yet even those who are used to styles in Writer tend to overlook the styles used in other [...]

DK: Rødovre municipality: OpenOffice will be cheaper to maintain

“OpenOffice will be cheaper to maintain and will run better than Microsoft’s proprietary alternative”, expects Lars Roark, IT manager at the Danish municipality of Rødovre, according to reports in Danish media.
The municipality on Friday announced it will this week start to use OpenOffice, alongside Microsoft’s proprietary alternative. However the municipality plans to eventually [...]

Openoffice.org present their own mouse- OOMouse

Is not a Joke, OpenofficeMouse is available, OOMouse is the first multi-button application mouse designed for a wide variety of software applications. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands. the OOMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user [...]

Get rid of OpenOffice.org’s logo in Linux

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Get rid of OpenOffice.org’s logo in Linux
If you for whatever reason dislike OpenOffice.org’s logo or want to gain an extra few seconds of speed while the application loads, you can disable OO.o’s logo by editing the
/etc/openoffice/sofficerc
file and modifying the
Logo=1
value into
Logo=0

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One hundred million downloads of OOo 3

Yesterday, Wednesday 28th., the one hundred millionth person clicked on the “Download OpenOffice.org” button since version 3 of the software was announced just over one year ago.
What makes the statistics impressive is that we only record downloads via the OpenOffice.org website, and exclude for example large numbers of Linux users who [...]

OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta Release available

The OpenOffice.org Community is proud to announce the availability of a beta release of its upcoming 3.2 version. This first preview is for everyone interested in the new features and enhancements of the final 3.2 release, expected in December.
A list of all changes is available at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.2 and the actual [...]

OpenOffice boom in Belgium

Ben van den Brande, a representative of the agency spoke in February last year at the ODF Workshop organised by NOiV, the Dutch resource centre on open source and open standards. Talking about the backend integration, Van den Brande said: “We immediately recognised the advantages of ODF.”
A second recent example is the administration of the [...]

New Chart features in OpenOffice.org 3.2

Interested in the new Chart features that will be available in OOo 3.2? Have a look:
Bubble Charts
The Bubble Chart is available as new chart type now. Bubble Charts are similar to the XY Charts, but in addition to the x-and y-value for each data point a third value is used to influence the size of [...]

OpenOffice.org Newsletter – 09/2009

OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
09/2009
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We are asking for your opinion how the next OO.o Newsletter should look
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change it to an improved and, in our opinion, easier readable layout
This is how the newsletter [...]

Schools start to move to OpenOffice

The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk is installing OpenOffice on some 1700 school desktop PCs, the administration announced yesterday. The first school where OpenOffice will be installed is the Lindegård school. At the school earlier today mayor Rolf Aagaard-Svendsen showed the first desktop running the open source suite of productivity tools. According to [...]

7 Steps to Better Tables of Contents in OpenOffice.org Writer

Like other word processes, OpenOffice.org Writer makes creating tables of contents (ToCs) quick and easy. Unfortunately, it also works with unaesthetic defaults and allows you to make choices that complicate your work flow rather than improving it.
Fortunately, Writer is also flexible enough to allow you to produce useful, aesthetic ToCs if you follow a few [...]