[Getting the most our of open source] OpenOffice.org Extensions for Business Users
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Productivity News via: DMITRI POPOV - worldlabel
There are a surprisingly large number of extensions available for OpenOffice. Beyond the ones listed in this article are:
- Sun Connector for SharePoint Server
- Writer’s Tools
- Sun Weblog Publisher
- Sun Wiki Publisher
The list goes on, and on. Checkout the full list
OpenOffice.org is an excellent all-around productivity suite as it is, but you can add a few useful features using extensions to make it better suited for use in a business environment. Here are a handful of extensions worth considering if you are using OpenOffice.org as a business tool.
OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs
Right from the start, Google Docs has been a useful complement to OpenOffice.org. Since this web-based office suite supports the OpenDocument format, you can send documents back and forth between OpenOffice.org and Google Docs. While this works fine when you have to upload or download documents every now and then, transferring dozens of documents between OpenOffice.org and Google Docs can quickly become a nuisance. The OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs (ooo2gd) extension solves the problem by allowing you to easily upload OpenOffice.org documents to Google Docs as well as open existing Docs files in Writer. The upload feature supports not only ODT documents, but also SXW, DOC, and RTF. Moreover, ooo2gd can send spreadsheets in ODS, XLS, and CVS formats as well as PPT and PPS presentations. The download part of the ooo2gd extension is still in the experimental stage, and for now, you can only open Google Docs documents in Writer as plain text files…..
