I've written an excel sheet for generating RPG characters for a friend RPG. Since many users in this community are not using windows machines (Macs and Linux), I wanted to try my sheet on OpenOffice.

In last week's shootout, where I matched Microsoft Excel against OpenOffice.org Calc, OpenOffice.org came out on the short end of the stick in my benchmark tests. The tests not only showed Excel to ...

For productivity software, Microsoft Office is not the only game in town. You can download a free copy of OpenOffice and get equivalent programs: a word processor ...