OpenOffice templates

[Fallen Angel]

OpenOffice is lovely - it does practically everything that M$ Office does - and includes Writer (word processor), Impress (presentations - like Powerpoint), Math (mathematical function creator), Draw (vector drawing tool), Calc (spreadsheet), Base (database) - and without the hefty price-tag - it's open-source and free. And it's compatible with Office and such like. I've used it for over 6 months on my laptop now with no problems (I wasn't about to shell out for another M$ licence for it so my laptop's largely an open source zone).

What is doesn't come with though is templates like M$ Office does - here though are sources of templates for OpenOffice:

Impress
http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/downloads/simpress/index.php?tab=All - OO Extras - the OO collection of templates (some are better than others)
http://technology.chtsai.org/impress/ - some very nice templates
http://ooosupport.good-day.net/en/download/templates/ - templates for OO 1.1 (not sure if they're compatible with OO 2.x)
http://www.poweredtemplates.com/ (paid templates - they're Powerpoint templates, but compatible with OO)
http://csip.ece.gatech.edu/Information/StarOffice_Templates/index.shtml

Writer
http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm - label templates

http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/ - extremely large clipart library (not OO specific - instructions here on using them in OO)

http://www.kaaredyret.dk/openoffice.html - loads of hints and tips and stuff here
http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/ - of course there's various bits and pieces at OO Extras as well
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/ - hints and tips and "how to"'s here

[Caz]

How does base compare with Access and where does MySQL fit in?

[Fallen Angel]

I've not really used Base much, but from what I've seen it does pretty much all that Access does, as a desktop app that is - I've not done anything webbie with it so I'm not sure what capabilities it's got for web stuff.

[Fallen Angel]

Just found a major limitation in Impress (well normally it wouldn't be a limitation because it's not usually something I do much of, but as for my current project I do need to and it won't, it is!). It's not possible to embed a Flash movie in an Impress presentation in the same way you can in PowerPoint. From looking at the forums though it looks like it is something the OO team are aware of and might be looking into.