OpenOffice, has a mouse designed for it. WarMouse, a company in Orvieto, Italy recently release OOmouse on November 6, 2009. It has 18 buttons and an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands & is Designed by a gamer.

Here are a list of the applications that can take advantage of the 18 button mouse.

• The Gimp
• 3D Studio Max
• Intuit Quicken
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Outlook
• Adobe Photoshop
• Intuit Quickbooks
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Office 2007: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• OpenOffice.org 3.1: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base

The Game list that uses OOmouse includes:

• Starcraft
• Poker Stars
• The Sims 3
• Battle for Wesnoth
• World of Warcraft
• Counterstrike: Source
• Unreal Tournament 3
• Call of Duty: World at War
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• OOmouse Intellivision Emulator

Joystick is used as a substitute for arrow keys and used for navigation in spreadsheet cells in Calc or Excel.Macros can be recorded and assigned to single button clicks, or double-clicks, even joystick movements, not to mention scroll wheel positions.You can assign a single button click function to perform any task as well.The cost is $ 74.99 from WarMouse