As functionality traditionally associated with desktop applications moves to the Web, developers are looking for new ways to handle that computational heavy lifting on the server side. But if you need ...

OpenOffice.org's (OOo) word processor, called Writer, has an embedded calculating facility similar to a spreadsheet. This article shows how to use it by building an invoice template with account aging ...

Glide, the suite of Web 2.0 apps for the desktop and mobile device, adds a spreadsheet tool Wednesday and support for OpenOffice.org on Thursday. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and Commerce, ...

Located at the top of each column in your OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet are the letters of the alphabet. These headings differentiate between the columns, and allow you to sort and manipulate the data ...

I've seen spreadsheets that are basically interactive tutorials, and many more loaded with what Edward Tufte refers to as "chartjunk" -- embellishments that do nothing to make the presentation of ...

While Microsoft Office is the industry standard in terms of , integrated applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database management, email and desktop publishing. However, it’s ...

The impressive open-source office software suite, OpenOffice, a free alternative to Microsoft’s office desktop software, has reported over 300 million people have downloaded the application since its ...

A group of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new standard to handle desktop application documents. Members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured ...