OpenOffice.org Down Under!

One of the problems that many people have when first starting to use OpenOffice.org is that often it starts in Writer by default and people have trouble working out how to start with Calc or another module of OpenOffice.org. The reason for this is that OpenOffice.org is an application rather than a suite like other office applications which offer separate programs each able to run independently.

I have finally had a chance to download the latest beta version of the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Mac OS X Aqua. First thing to address is that some people believe that it is only available for the newer Intel based machines, but that is not so as I am running it on my iBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.4 system. I obtained the beta version from the good site that supports PowerPC compilations at: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0beta/ This site has many different locales available, but I am looking at the en_GB based version at the moment.