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What is OpenOffice?

OpenOffice is an open source suite of productivity applications that competes, more or less, with productivity suites such as Microsoft Office or Corel WordPerfect.  It includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database, graphics editor and mathematical formula editor.

News

February 22nd, 2010
OpenOffice 3.2 has released.  To be fair it released a little while ago, I'm just slow to get this update posted!  Find out what's new with the product and download it here.

May 7, 2009
OpenOffice 3.1 has released.  New features include improved sharing of files, improvements to the Comments feature, outline levels within paragraphs, improved sorting in Calc and more.  You can find more info here.

May 1, 2009
The deadline for proposals for the new UI for OpenOffice has been extended to May 11th.  More Info

Articles

5/1/2009 - Articles coming soon!

Resources

Here are some useful resources for lawyers to use for more information on OpenOffice

Sites

• OpenOffice.org - the Mothership, where you can download OpenOffice 3.2 and start using it.
• OpenOffice at Wikipedia - Information about the open source suite from Wikipedia

Last Updated: 03/09/2010