If you run a business, finding an efficient system for managing invoices is critical for sustaining a positive cash flow. Here's how you can create an easy invoicing solution using OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc.

OOoAuthors is a volunteer group writing documentation for OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress and Base. If you wish to read documentation, see our published chapters.

Is OpenOffice.org (OOo), the popular free office application, "a profoundly sick project," as developer Michael Meeks alleges? Or are his comments a poorly concealed effort to promote Go-OO, Novell's version of OOo, as the anti-Novell lobby suggests?

OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 -- Beijing, China -- 05 Nov 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the launch of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Toolkit Union, a new open-source software community project organized to make document software more innovative, versatile and useful for business.

For the sake of free software, please help defend Taiwan from Microsoft's docx file format invasion. Please help odf plugin for firefox more than you do with the docx plugin. Otherwise, you could be hurting open file format as you contribute to one controversial piece of free software, and ultimately hurt the entire FS landscape as a whole.

The OpenDocument format (ODF) is a file format for electronic office documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. While the specifications were originally developed by Sun, the standard was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium and based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite (see OpenOffice.org XML). In addition to being a free and open OASIS standard, it is published (in one of its version 1.0 manifestations) as an ISO/IEC international standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0.[2] Published ODF standards meet the common definitions of an open standard, meaning they are freely available and implementable.

Microsoft has published documentation on how it plans to implement support of the OASIS Open Document Format Version 1.1 in Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 when it becomes available in 2009.

Microsoft plans to open Office to other file formats, a move the company hopes will placate government and business concerns about document interoperability. Describing this as a step to foster greater transparency, Microsoft intends to document how it incorporated Open Document Format support into Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is still in beta. That product is expected to ship sometime in the first half of 2009.

O3Spaces Workplace brings document management & collaboration functionality directly to your Office suite of choice. Whether you use OpenOffice.org, StarOffice or Microsoft Office O3Spaces Workplace provides plug-ins that allow you to collaborate on documents with your peers directly from your office suite. With O3Spaces Workplace automated document versioning, retention and security mechanisms become an integrated part of your office suite's basic functionality, so that you have all the documents management benefits at your fingertips without additional actions or procedures. The Open & Cross Platform Sharepoint Alternative O3Spaces Workplace is the open & flexible Sharepoint alternative, bringing you the key document management and collaboration features found in Sharepoint in a user friendly and economic setting. Read more about the key features here.

The Creative Commons Licensing extension provides the ability to select and embed a Creative Commons license in Writer, Calc and Impress documents. In addition to embedding the license in the document metadata it provides a visible notice in your document.