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

January 26th, 2011
OpenOffice 3.3 has released and is available for download.

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.

Tip of the Moment

Want to set OpenOffice Writer as your default program to open Word files? In Windows, right-click a Word document, choose "Open With" and choose OpenOffice Writer. Be sure to check the box telling Windows to always use this program to open that type of file.

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: 01/12/2013