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Syntext, Inc. (http://www.syntext.com) is happy to announce the release of Serna Free Open Source XML Editor! Serna is a powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG XML editor based on open standards, which works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris/SPARC (http://syntext.com/products/serna-free/).

Feng Office team has just released version 1.3 of online office OpenGoo, with new features that improve business management and communication.

I've long been an admirer of OpenOffice.org, the free, open-source office suite that's a serious alternative to pricey products such as Microsoft Office. It strikes me as a no-brainer to at least try it when you're in the market for an updated productivity suite, because it costs you nothing but your time.

We're back again with more tips and tricks on transitioning to OpenOffice.org (OOo). We've covered a lot of ground already; we've added features, figured out how to do things in OOo that differ from MS Office, and tried to make you more comfortable during your transition.

The ability to save user settings can come in handy if you want to make your OpenOffice.org solutions more flexible, efficient, and user-friendly. In this article, we take a look at how to save user settings in a plain text file and then retrieve them from there.

Once I installed this extension, it took me about six seconds to create a presentation based on a directory of graphics, one slide for each graphic.

The Malaysian government has unveiled plans to roll out OpenOffice.org in schools across the nation--a move that will affect some 300,000 PCs.

Chris "Chain Man" Cheney has put out a call for testing for OpenOffice 3.0. Chris was just mentioning to me the other day how he doesn't have nearly enough bugs assigned to him and how he would love to have the community flood him with 3.0 bugs. I was shocked that he would be such a sacrificial lamb, but history is full of daring men and women who have taken one for the team.