Character count in text can be an important number, especially when dealing with design and formatting for newsletters or product copy. It may be especially important to keep an eye on character count ...

OpenOffice by Apache is an open-source alternative to the Microsoft Office software suite. The suite includes components for text documents, spreadsheets, images and databases. Depending on the ...

OpenOffice.org's (OOo) word processor, called Writer, has an embedded calculating facility similar to a spreadsheet. This article shows how to use it by building an invoice template with account aging ...