There are several good resources to help answer your questions. The Student’s
Guide to OpenOffice Writer is a very good resource for the basic information to
answer your questions:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/01/Ooo_for_students.pdf
OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide has more detail
On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 11:35:51 -0400
S Friedman wrote:
> I am a poet, writer, trying to make basic, editorial changes on a document;
> the system appears to be quite user unfriendly even though my needs are
> very simple and basic. These are some of the issues:
>
> 1. will not change double space t
I am a poet, writer, trying to make basic, editorial changes on a document;
the system appears to be quite user unfriendly even though my needs are
very simple and basic. These are some of the issues:
1. will not change double space to single space
2. cannot insert page number; the page number con
Severity: low
Description:
While working on Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 a developer discovered that the DEB
package did not install using root, but instead used a userid and groupid of
500. This both caused issues with desktop integration and could allow a crafted
attack on files owned by that use
Severity: medium
Description:
Apache OpenOffice has a dependency on expat software. Versions prior to 2.1.0
were subject to CVE-2013-0340 a "Billion Laughs" entity expansion denial of
service attack and exploit via crafted XML files. ODF files consist of a set of
XML files.
All versions of Ap
Severity: high
Description:
Apache OpenOffice opens dBase/DBF documents and shows the contents as
spreadsheets. DBF are database files with data organized in fields. When
reading DBF data the size of certain fields is not checked: the data is just
copied into local variables. A carefully cra
