How to Transfer Excel Sheets to Open Office. In addition to opening its own native .ODF file format, OpenOffice Calc can also open worksheets from other spreadsheet software such as Excel.

OpenOffice is an office suite built on open source. Like Excel, this toolkit can be used on computer systems using Windows or Linux operating systems.

Likewise, Writer receives a new commenting system and better file locking so that it plays better in a mixed OpenOffice/Microsoft Office network environment.

Making good on an earlier promise, Novell has posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, adding Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source ...