The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default—but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...

Sun's OpenDocument conversion plugin for Microsoft Office is now available for download. Released with little fanfare earlier this week, the plugin provides support for reading and writing ODF files ...

Google has released a trio of updates for Drive including support for importing Open Document Format (ODF) files, searching for Drive files from its Search app, and a way to share non-Google files as ...

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The U.K. is moving to a system where citizens can exchange information with the government digitally by default — but in choosing the file formats to use for that exchange, it must balance corporate ...

IBM has announced an upgrade to Lotus Notes that will include access to office productivity applications and support for the OpenDocument format. The new version of Lotus Notes, codenamed "Hannover," ...