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* OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1151013,00.html Part 1] and [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1151015,00.html Part 2], SearchOpenSource.com
 
* OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1151013,00.html Part 1] and [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1151015,00.html Part 2], SearchOpenSource.com
 
* OpenOffice 2.0 Base: Getting the right views, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1149900,00.html SearchOpenSource.com]
 
* OpenOffice 2.0 Base: Getting the right views, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1149900,00.html SearchOpenSource.com]
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* How to use OpenOffice 2.0's database tool, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1148271,00.html Part 1] and [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1148277,00.html Part 2], SearchOpe
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* How to use OpenOffice 2.0's database tool, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1148271,00.html Part 1] and [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1148277,00.html Part 2], SearchOpenSource.com
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* OpenOffice tip: Everything about envelopes, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1146815,00.html SearchOpenSource.com]
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* Interview with Michael Meeks: a GNOME hacker working on OpenOffice.org speed — [http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=18 Linux Format Interview archive]
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* NewsForge presents free OpenOffice.org training videos (in Macromedia Flash format) — [http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/2044220 Newsforge staff]
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* OpenOffice.org 2.0 Review, by Jem Matzan — [http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/176/41/ The Jem Report]
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* Toolbars in OpenOffice.org 2.0, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1135474,00.html Part 1] and [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1135488,00.html Part 2], SearchOpenSource.com
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* '''MadPenguin interview series''' over the launch of OpenOffice.org 2.0, by Christian Einfeldt
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** [http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5297 Part 1]: Sun Microsystems' Florian Reuter: will the real XML please stand up!
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** [http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5304 Part 2]: Gary Edwards: OpenOffice.org 2.0 leaping over legacy lockdown with clean XML
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** [http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5370 Part 3]: OpenOffice.org 2.0: An Office Suite With No Horizons
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* '''Improving OpenOffice.org''': articles by Jono Bacon at [http://www.oreillynet.com Oreilly Network]
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** [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7834 Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org]
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** [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8136 Mozillarization of OpenOffice.org]
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** [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8266 All hail the speed demons] — covering hackers' effort on improving OOo performance
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* Follow the expert: Making an OpenOffice.org 2.0 presentation, by Solveig Haugland — [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1131010,00.html SearchOpenSource.com]
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* An introduction to OpenOffice.org Basic, by Mark Alexander Bain — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/20/1840248 Newsforge.com]
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* Writing a Program to Control OpenOffice.org, by Franco Pingiori — [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8550 Part 1] and [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8608 Part 2], Linux Journal
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* Creating an invoicing system with OpenOffice.org, by Dmitri Popov — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/01/152212 Newsforge.com]
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* FOSS word processors compared: OOo Writer, AbiWord, and KWord, by Bruce Byfield — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/2038242 Newsforge.com]
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* Sharing files between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office, by Bruce Byfield — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/21/1834257 Newsforge.com]
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* OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Word, by Bruce Byfield — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/14/2137222 Newsforge.com]
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* FOSS spreadsheet hands-on comparison, by Bruce Byfield — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/05/1538249 Newsforge.com]
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==2004==
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* Building a map application with Calc, by Dmitri Popov — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1622209 Newsforge.com]
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* Microsoft PowerPoint versus OpenOffice.org Impress, by Bruce Byfield — [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/1544200 Newsforge.com]
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* Create a Letterhead Using OpenOffice.org Writer, by Jean Weber — [http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/12/14/write_letterhead.html WindowsDevCenter.com]
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* Getting the most from OpenOffice.org Writer fields, by [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1899 Jean Weber] — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/14/1452253 Newsforge.com]
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* Excerpt from the book ''OpenOffice.org Macros Explained'', by Andrew Pitonyak
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** Getting started with OpenOffice.org macro — [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/14/1450239 Newsforge.com]
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** OpenOffice.org's integrated development environment — [http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/14/1452253 Newsforge.com]
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* Review: Using OpenOffice.org, by Peter H. Salus —  [http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9455/ur0412i/ Unix Review]
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* OpenOffice.org is four years old today; community manager Louis Suarez-Potts talks about the changes, by Bruce Byfield — [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/13/1323239 Newsforge.com]
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* Replacing FrameMaker with OOo Writer, by Bruce Byfield — [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/04/150207 Newsforge.com]
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* Technical Writing Using OpenOffice.org Writer, by [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1899 Jean Weber] — [http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/24/openofficewriter.html WindowsDevCenter.com]
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* Text Formatting with OpenOffice.org Writer, by Christian Paratschek — [http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8225 OSNews.com]
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* Eleven Tips for Moving to OpenOffice.org, by Bruce Byfield — [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7158 Linux Journal]
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== Blogs on OpenOffice.org ==
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* [http://www.libervis.com/blogs/5/charles/preparing_the_2007_battles Preparing the (Office) 2007 battles] — Charles-H.Schulz, with information on bug report statistics, Intel sending engineers to help optimize OpenOffice.org, etc.
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* [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/01/odf_in_firefox.html ODF in Firefox] — Gervase Markham, a new extension for reading ODF document inside Firefox
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*:''Note:'' The [[Firefox ODFReader extension]] since then was further developed by Alex Hudson[http://www.alcoholicsunanimous.com/odfreader/]<br>and is now hosted at the official Mozilla Update[https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1888] extension database.
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* [http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/001143.html Google Supports OpenOffice, But Not (Yet) ODF] — Stephen O'Grady, Google has started to support reading *.SXW (OpenOffice.org 1.x file format) by converting it to HTML and hence viewable by most web browsers out there. Similar support is also provided for G-Mail users to view SXW document attachment[http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=30719&hl=en].
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== Other sources for news on OpenOffice.org ==
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<div style="background-color: #ffffcc; margin: 0 1em; padding: 0 10px; border: 1px dotted #c00;">
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: '''Some suggestions'''<br>
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:: In order to create a ''one-stop central location'' for finding news, articles and reviews on OpenOffice.org, I recommend that links to relevant articles on OpenOffice.org from the following news source (and possibly other source) to be archived and re-posted on this Wiki page. What do you think? Feel free to speak up your mind in the [[Talk:Press_coverage_on_OpenOffice.org|Talk page]]. Your input is truly appreciated.--[[User:Zero0w|Wily Yuen]] Feb 14, 2006
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* Newsforge: [http://www.newsforge.com/search.pl?tid=93 Office Software newsfeed]
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* LinuxJournal: [http://www.linuxjournal.com/user/800902/track OOo Off the Wall column] (also [http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/resources/ooo_off_the_wall listed in OOoAuthors]) by [http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/journal.html Bruce Byfield]
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* Some articles and blogs on XML and OpenOffice.org from [http://www.oreillynet.com/ Oreilly Network]
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* [http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/ The OpenOffice.org Newsletter]
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* [http://openoffice.blogs.com/ OpenOffice.org Blog] by Solveig Haugland:
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** Especially author's articles in [http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/techtarget_articles/index.html SearchOpenSource.com] ''(All archived)''
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* [http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html Product Reviews] and [http://www.openoffice.org/product/studies.html Case Studies] section from the official page
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* OOoForum.org: [http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=13217 OpenOffice.org in the news], with many members contributing news links
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* Result for "OpenOffice.org" in the social bookmarking portal: [http://del.icio.us/search/?all=OpenOffice.org del.icio.us]
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For news report on major deployment of OpenOffice.org inside governments, universities and other large instituitions and organizations, please see Major OpenOffice.org Deployments.

2006

  • Why technical writers aren't using FOSS, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • OpenOffice aims to boost lagging performance, by Tom Sanders — vnunet.com
  • The mystery of the missing mail merge, by Solveig Haugland — SearchOpenSource.com
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 Includes More KDE Features, by Jan Holesovsky — KDE.News
  • Finding hidden treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Charting Wizard, by Solveig Haugland — SearchOpenSource.com
  • 'Is OpenOffice.org really ten years behind MS Office?', by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols — DesktopLinux.com
  • 'StarOffice 8: Office Killer?', by Martin C. Brown — LinuxPlanet
  • OpenOffice.org Writer, Does More Than Just Word Processing, by Kevin Shockey — TUX, Issue number 11: March 2006
  • How-to: Working wonders with OpenOffice 2.0's Web Wizard, by Solveig Haugland — SearchOpenSource.com
  • Desktop publishing with (OpenOffice.org) Writer and Scribus, by Dmitri Popov — Linux.com
  • Step-by-step how-to: OpenOffice 2.0's new mail merge tools, by Solveig Haugland — Part 1 and Part 2, SearchOpenSource.com
  • How to get reports on OpenOffice 2.0 Base, by Solveig Haugland — Part 1 and Part 2, SearchOpenSource.com
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0 Impress: the Confusing Duckling Becomes a User-Friendly Swan, by Solveig L. Haugland — TUX, Issue number 10: February 2006
  • OpenOffice.org Base, by Kevin Shockey — TUX, Issue number 10: February 2006
  • Hacking OpenOffice.org dictionaries, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • OpenOffice 2.0 - The latest OpenOffice comes with new file formats and many new features, by Michael Bona — Linux Magazine, Issue 63: February 2006
  • Publishing with OOo Writer and DokuWiki, by Dmitri Popov — Newsforge.com
  • WorldLabel.com release reflects growing use of OpenOffice.org, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • Connecting to existing databases in OpenOffice.org 2.0, by Solveig Haugland — SearchOpenSource.com

2005

  • "Is there life without Microsoft Office?" by Allison Linn — MSNBC.com
  • OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms, by Solveig Haugland — Part 1 and Part 2, SearchOpenSource.com
  • OpenOffice 2.0 Base: Getting the right views, by Solveig Haugland — SearchOpenSource.com
  • How to use OpenOffice 2.0's database tool, by Solveig Haugland — Part 1 and Part 2, SearchOpenSource.com
  • OpenOffice tip: Everything about envelopes, by Solveig Haugland — SearchOpenSource.com
  • Interview with Michael Meeks: a GNOME hacker working on OpenOffice.org speed — Linux Format Interview archive
  • NewsForge presents free OpenOffice.org training videos (in Macromedia Flash format) — Newsforge staff
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0 Review, by Jem Matzan — The Jem Report
  • Toolbars in OpenOffice.org 2.0, by Solveig Haugland — Part 1 and Part 2, SearchOpenSource.com
  • MadPenguin interview series over the launch of OpenOffice.org 2.0, by Christian Einfeldt
    • Part 1: Sun Microsystems' Florian Reuter: will the real XML please stand up!
    • Part 2: Gary Edwards: OpenOffice.org 2.0 leaping over legacy lockdown with clean XML
    • Part 3: OpenOffice.org 2.0: An Office Suite With No Horizons
  • Follow the expert: Making an OpenOffice.org 2.0 presentation, by Solveig Haugland — SearchOpenSource.com
  • An introduction to OpenOffice.org Basic, by Mark Alexander Bain — Newsforge.com
  • Writing a Program to Control OpenOffice.org, by Franco Pingiori — Part 1 and Part 2, Linux Journal
  • Creating an invoicing system with OpenOffice.org, by Dmitri Popov — Newsforge.com
  • FOSS word processors compared: OOo Writer, AbiWord, and KWord, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • Sharing files between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Word, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • FOSS spreadsheet hands-on comparison, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com

2004

  • Building a map application with Calc, by Dmitri Popov — Newsforge.com
  • Microsoft PowerPoint versus OpenOffice.org Impress, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • Create a Letterhead Using OpenOffice.org Writer, by Jean Weber — WindowsDevCenter.com
  • Getting the most from OpenOffice.org Writer fields, by Jean Weber — Newsforge.com
  • Excerpt from the book OpenOffice.org Macros Explained, by Andrew Pitonyak
    • Getting started with OpenOffice.org macro — Newsforge.com
    • OpenOffice.org's integrated development environment — Newsforge.com
  • Review: Using OpenOffice.org, by Peter H. Salus — Unix Review
  • OpenOffice.org is four years old today; community manager Louis Suarez-Potts talks about the changes, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • Replacing FrameMaker with OOo Writer, by Bruce Byfield — Newsforge.com
  • Technical Writing Using OpenOffice.org Writer, by Jean Weber — WindowsDevCenter.com
  • Text Formatting with OpenOffice.org Writer, by Christian Paratschek — OSNews.com
  • Eleven Tips for Moving to OpenOffice.org, by Bruce Byfield — Linux Journal

Blogs on OpenOffice.org

  • Preparing the (Office) 2007 battles — Charles-H.Schulz, with information on bug report statistics, Intel sending engineers to help optimize OpenOffice.org, etc.
  • ODF in Firefox — Gervase Markham, a new extension for reading ODF document inside Firefox
    Note: The Firefox ODFReader extension since then was further developed by Alex Hudson[1]
    and is now hosted at the official Mozilla Update[2] extension database.
  • Google Supports OpenOffice, But Not (Yet) ODF — Stephen O'Grady, Google has started to support reading *.SXW (OpenOffice.org 1.x file format) by converting it to HTML and hence viewable by most web browsers out there. Similar support is also provided for G-Mail users to view SXW document attachment[3].

Other sources for news on OpenOffice.org

Some suggestions
In order to create a one-stop central location for finding news, articles and reviews on OpenOffice.org, I recommend that links to relevant articles on OpenOffice.org from the following news source (and possibly other source) to be archived and re-posted on this Wiki page. What do you think? Feel free to speak up your mind in the Talk page. Your input is truly appreciated.--Wily Yuen Feb 14, 2006


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