OpenOffice
Resource Sites[edit]
- The main site http://OpenOffice.org
- word processing
- spreadsheet
- documentation including the manuals
- forums
- The OASIS Focus Area at http://opendocument.xml.org
- extras
- macros
Check http://support.openoffice.org/index.html for a list of websites and free online resouces which aren't listed here
Tutorials[edit]
Learn OpenOffice[edit]
http://www.learnopenoffice.org/ has free tutorials (impress and calc as of 6/2006) and resources
From Atomic Learning[edit]
Introducing Impress
Using Impress for PowerPoint users
File Formats[edit]
OpenOffice File Formats describes how the ODF OASIS standard is employed by OpenOffice
Programming[edit]
The wikipedia site has a great list of the projects and interfaces for programmatically dealing with ODF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software
The open document fellowship website might even have a better list http://opendocumentfellowship.org/node/11 The applications page lists all the applications that can read/write ODF
Controversy and Competing Standards[edit]
Groklaw has probably the best list of the issues against EOOXML http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections
