How to Read Microsoft Word From OpenOffice. Apache's OpenOffice Writer is a versatile program, with one of its strengths being the ability to open and read document formats from other word ...

How to Open Publisher Files With OpenOffice. Although Apache's OpenOffice is compatible with the rest of the Microsoft Office suite, it cannot convert Microsoft Publisher files.

Select these options in OpenOffice.org Writer to preserve Word features the open-source word processor doesn't support. To make Word's .doc file format the default in OOo Writer, click General ...

Content: OpenOffice Writer is a good alternative to Microsoft Word for scientific work. It can be downloaded free of charge from the Internet and is in no way inferior to other word processing ...

OpenOffice.org already has a note tool, of course, but, in its current incarnation, it is difficult to read (that will change in September, though, when OpenOffice.org 3.0 is due for release). By ...

OpenOffice.org has the tools you need, but improving the text flow is as much about knowing the conventions of text flow (what you might think of as the typographical grammar) as the settings ...