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Difference between Libre Office and Open Office [closed]

What's the difference between Libre Office and Open Office. Ubuntu 12.04 is shipped with Libre Office and before that all versions 10, 9, 8 were shipped with Open Office. If Libre Office is better ...
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1answer
875 views

How do I determine the version of OpenOffice from the command line in Ubuntu and OS X

How can I determine which version of open office is installed? I'd like to be able to issue this command on an Ubuntu machine as well as a Mac OS X machine.
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Alternative to Abiword, LibreOffice or Open Office under Linux

Actually I'm looking for a word processor with the folllowing features : Base Formatting Lightweight Stable & bugfree It should work for common office work on quite old machines. EDIT : It's ...
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1answer
221 views

What are the Compatibility issues between MS-OFFICE 2007(Windows) to Open Office on linux?

I would like to know the compatibility issues between MS-Office 2007 on windows and Open Office on Linux? Please anybody having thoughts abt this problem,kindly let me know... Thanks & Regards, ...
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2answers
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Open office ruined my CSV file - (how to save CSV on Linux with Open Office)?

I am running Open Office 3.2 on Linux Ubuntu. I had a CSV (comma separated value) file which I had manually created. I opened it in Open Office and entered about 1 hundered items (to make use of ...
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2answers
345 views

How to set a Ctrl+Alt shortcut in OpenOffice?

I'm using Open Office 3.1.1 on Ubuntu 9.10. I want to change the shortcut for "Save As" to (the more logical) Ctrl+Alt+S instead of the default Ctrl+Shift+S. I think I've finally got my head round ...
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3answers
8k views

How to open Mac Keynote presentations on Ubuntu?

How to open Mac Keynote presentations on Ubuntu? Can it be imported to Impress?
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2answers
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Opentype fonts in OpenOffice

How to get opentype fonts in .otf format working on Ubuntu and OpenOffice 3.2? It would be great if I could use opentype features in OOo, but I'll be glad enough if I could use them even converted to ...
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3answers
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how to upgrade to openoffice 3.1.1 on ubuntu jaunty

I need to read some .docx files and the standard 3.0.1 version of OpenOffice writer that comes with Unbuntu 9.04 just ain't handling it. I tried the instructions from the following site: ...
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4answers
8k views

Is there anything to open .docx documents on Linux (Ubuntu)?

My mother has some serious issues using Windows (viruses, spywares, and so on) and I seriously think about setting up Ubuntu as a replacement. (That would ease my "job" as well) The only concern I ...
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1answer
81 views

How do I print a bunch of OpenOffice.org documents at once?

With Microsoft Word on Windows, I can select a bunch of documents, right-click, and select "print". There doesn't seem to be any such option for OpenOffice.org running on Ubuntu 9.10. I have a folder ...
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1answer
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linux: dual monitors for presentation

I'd like to setup dual monitors so that one monitor is a projector and the other is my laptop's screen. Then I'd like to show a full screen presentation (openoffice) on the projector and the same ...
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2answers
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open office (from krusader) can't open remote files

I use ubuntu and have an samba share. From file browser I can open files from samba with open office but from krusader it makes a local copy in /tmp and open that temp file instead of original file. ...
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2answers
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OpenOffice.org Defective JRE

I installed the ODT to LaTex converter for OpenOffice under Ubuntu 9.04 because I wanted to convert my basic document template and even though it found the proper Sun JRE (Version is 1.6.0_14, ...