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