Warnings When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.

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I use OpenOffice 3, and I tested a lot of macros on both the Windows version and the Ubuntu version, and other than a few dialogue box differences, this book is quite applicable to version 3.