How to Count Characters in Your OpenOffice Documents. Character count in text can be an important number, especially when dealing with design and formatting for newsletters or product copy. It may ...

You can convert OpenOffice.org text documents to Excel with the text import tool. Save the text document with the .txt file extension, open it in Excel and save it as an Excel spreadsheet.

OpenOffice.org's (OOo) word processor, called Writer, has an embedded calculating facility similar to a spreadsheet. This article shows how to use it by building an invoice template with account aging ...