One of the reasons that users stick to MS Office is because of the Macro capability.

I have just read over on Life Hacker that there is a FREE plugin available that, once installed, will allow you to record and run Macros in OpenOffice.

Check out the article on Groovy at LifeHacker.

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I have created a calendar template in Calc for a client.

The dates are automatically calculated. You only need to amend the first Sunday to achieve the date range that you need.

Download the file FREE from the following link:

A Calendar Template File for OpenOffice 2.0

There are a number of good how-to guides out there which detail explicit instructions and information on how to create different projects in OpenOffice.

I include a list of some of them here:

How to Write a Thesis in OpenOffice [PDF]
This is not only good for a thesis, but for any general writing (especially for academic [...]

I have a number of clients who initially have problems understanding the page breaks within OpenOffice. In Microsoft Word we usually insert and then delete using the delete key or backspace.

Page breaks in OpenOffice do require a little bit more fiddling, but once you understand how pagebreaks work, then, in my opinion, you will find [...]

One of the main attractions of MS Office is the templates that are available. MS Office templates do mostly work in OpenOffice, however sometimes we do get some disappointing results, and often we don”t want to have to worry about trying to fit a MS template into an OpenOffice program in a short period of [...]