Although I use OpenOffice.org Writer for all of my writings, most publishers I write for require plain text files with a dash of markup formatting.

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A conversion calculator can save you a lot of time and unnecessary mouse clicks when you need to convert values in a document from the imperial to the metric system (or vice versa). Although OpenOffice.org doesn't have a built-in calculator, you can easily create your own one using OpenOffice.org Basic.

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