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OSD600 20102 OpenOffice.org

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OpenOffice Extension

Extensions in OpenOffice extends the capability of the OpenOffice program. Extension can be for OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Presentation, Database or for the core OpenOffice. For OpenOffice writer, there may be extensions that extends the dictionary feature of OpenOffice so that user can use a French dictionary. Similarly there may be extensions that adds extra grammar features. An extension for Calc might do a complex calculation like mortgage calculation or filter data in certain way.

A popular extension might become part of the core program in a future release.

Extensions for OpenOffice can downloaded at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org

Installing an Extension

To install an extension

  • Then open OpenOffice Writer or Calc. On the top menu, click Tools->Extension Manager...
 
caption Installing an Extension
  • Click Add... and select the .oxt file (extension file) you downloaded.
 
caption Installing an Extension

Since extension can do different things, you might not see any button or menu item. Some extension might only appear and work on context menu. So if you cannot find it, check the extension's read-me file or manual.

Intellectual Property

Resources

OSD

General

Students List

Availability Timetable

Weekly Logs

Extensions

General

openoffice wiki

OpenOffice.org Extensions

OpenOffice Extensions

Checklist for Writing Extensions

Java

Java NetBeans Integration

Mailing lists

We can subscribe to OpenOffice Dev mailing by sending an empty email to dev-subscribe@openoffice.org and we can ask our questions from dev@openoffice.orgasa

This mailing list also sends all email questions asked by other people and their responses too. So, even if we don't have any questions to ask, we still get useful information.

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