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OpenOffice

OpenOffice is a suite of applications that more-or-less duplication the functionality of M$ Office. OpenOffice is available for both Linux and Windows.

Writer

OpenOffice Writer can create html documents.

A problem with the 64-bit version of OpenOffice calc

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400151

Some of the computations return 0 in the 64-bit version, but work OK in the 32-bit version.

The fix is to make sure your are using a version >= 2.3.0.

upgrading

Upgrading is really easy. You may be able to do it through yum. Or, you can download the tarball from openoffice.org, untar it, and run the setup script.

see also

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http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL9.pdf An older howto showing M$ Access Linux work-alike with OOo and MySQL.

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