OpenOffice.org is crap is it? by Lasse Have

Responding to a report [located here http://ur1.ca/k94v] on a number of students opinions on OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Office 2007 Word and OpenOffice .org Impress vs. Microsoft Office 2007 Powerpoint, whose conclusion is down-right depressing to those of us, who would prefer to see open source

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Big Cool Text With OOo Fontwork

Today we will look at how to use the Fontwork feature in Openoffice.org to really jazz up the text on your slides. Fontwork can easily create text for banners, title blocks, or just about any kind of large, colorful, 3-D, custom text style. Best of all, Fontwork functions equally well in Impress, Writer, Calc, or Draw.

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OpenOffice 'Writer's Tools' Extensions

Writer’s Tools is an all-around tool designed to help OpenOffice.org users perform a wide range of tasks. It makes it easier to back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, and keep tabs on document statistics.

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OpenOffice is a Joke

After more than half a decade of complaints, OpenOffice Writer still can't provide basic functionality that's been a standard word processing feature for more than 20 years. Will it take another half decade before OpenOffice stops being incurable crippleware?

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