I've seen spreadsheets that are basically interactive tutorials, and many more loaded with what Edward Tufte refers to as "chartjunk" -- embellishments that do nothing to make the presentation of ...

In addition to opening its own native .ODF file format, OpenOffice Calc can also open worksheets from other spreadsheet software such as Excel. According to Apache, when working with an Excel sheet in ...

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A consortium of companies and organizations have banded together to form the "ODF Alliance," a group dedicated to promoting the office software file format first implemented by OpenOffice.org. The ...

Even as its pushes the OpenDocument Format, OpenOffice.org -- and new member IBM -- are trying to deliver better compatibility with Microsoft Office. Good idea. This week, as its annual conference ...

In a press release today, Sun Microsystems announced it will deliver on demand network services to convert documents from native proprietary formats such as Microsoft Office into the Open Document ...

OpenOffice 3.0 is hot off the presses and now, for the first time, includes a native Mac OS X version of the popular, free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office. The new release also has the ...