I edited a document from a client with some highlights then later decided to remove the highlights for comments instead. For whatever reason, the document highlighted a number of bullet poin...

Background OpenOffice Writer lacks the ability to link to an ASCII text source file, apply syntax highlighting, wrap it in a frame, and update the frame contents whenever the source file changes. ...

Using XComponentContext xContext = Bootstrap.bootstrap(), I am trying to get the Get the remote office component context of OpenOffice through Java.But its raising exception no office executable f...

I'm generating a docx file with apache-poi. In the wordfile, I add tables, whose columns have a width I would like to see fixed. Currently, I use the technique described here: http://apache-poi.10...

We occasionally see revision-suggestions for documents (usually from our attorneys) where removed content gets color coded and has a strike through it. Added content also gets its own color coding....

I have a .txt file whose memory is more than 2 GB. The problem is I cannot open it with Notepad, Notepad++ or any other editor programs. Any solutions?

People that send content to my website use Word, so I get a lot of Word documents to convert to HTML. I want to conserve only the basic formatting - headings, lists and emphasis - no images. When ...

I have two documents, one in Spanish and one in English (the English is a translated version of the original in Spanish). I am creating a third document from the two, which includes the Spanish on ...

I'm attempting to copy the formatting of a table from one OpenOffice Writer file to another... I can tell that I'm writing the name of the style to the second document, but not the style data. I s...

I'm trying to script my OpenOffice document (Writer in my case) to do some simple things with widgets. Namely I'd like to copy text from widget to widget. For this I want to get one component and t...

I want to (preferably on Windows) start Open Office on a particular document, search for a fixed string and replace it with another string selected by my program. How do I do that, from an externa...

I am looking for a library which will allow me to render text and graphics output onto a PDF document. (Cairo is certainly an option.) I would like to know how OpenOffice writes PDF files to see if...

I am looking for a small linux tool that would be able to extract text from odt file. It just needs to be human-readable and it can have problems with complicated objects etc. It's almost a dupli...