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Discovering OpenOffice

http://openoffice.ozlady.com

To assist those that are starting to use office productivity suites, and those who are converting from MS Office, in being able to quickly and easily ensure that they can achieve good results in their word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications on a budget.

Added on: Aug 16th, 2007
Country: Singapore
Language: English

Author: ozlady
Listed in: Technology Software
Tags: templates productivity excel word openoffice powerpoint

Recent Posts

Report Template [OpenOffice Writer]

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 22:36 in writer, templates, intermediate, writing a report, report template, openoffice report template, turqoise report template

I have had to do some reports lately, so I have adapted this in to a template for OpenOffice. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT TEMPLATE I hope you find it useful. Some screenshots are included below. Front / Cover Page Abstract Page Tables, text and headings Re...
Opening & Converting OpenOffice Documents

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 21:30 in Online, google docs, intermediate, useful tools, convert files, convert calc spreadsheets, convert openoffice, convert writer documents

I understand if you don’t wish to install another piece of software on your computer – or perhaps you have OpenOffice at home and Word or Excel at work and forgot to convert that important file before you emailed it to yourself. If you ha...
OpenOffice Calc Shortcuts [and differences with Microsoft Excel]

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 19:29 in Easy, excel, shortcuts, keyboard, useful tools, shortcut keys, openoffice calc

A great deal of people using spreadsheets love using keyboard shortcuts. Here are some selected Excel and Calc default keyboard shortcuts – and the difference in accessing the related functions. Below are some additional shortcut keys that are ...
Shared Calc Spreadsheets – Available in Ooo 3.0

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 09:37 in calc, intermediate, conflict resolution, openoffice calc, network openoffice, share on network, share spreadsheets

Just a quick post with a bit of a find: OpenOffice.org Ninja has a great post on how to share spreadsheets on a network, with updates and change conflict resolution. Cooool No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Pos...
Forcing Line Breaks in Table of Contents

Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 22:03 in writer, Easy, beginners, openoffice, toc, table of contents, formatting, line break, openoffice writer, formatting table of contents

I recently saw a question regarding line breaks in the table of contents – OpenOffice does not allow you to edit a table of contents except through styles. Sometimes the way that long headings are formatted might not be what you desire. One thi...
Adding a Table of Contents in Writer [Indexes and Tables]

Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 20:36 in writer, tutorial, Easy, beginners, openoffice, table of contents, updating toc

There is a good tutorial for Adding and Updating a Table of Contents in OpenOffice’s Writer over at OpenOfficeX. Just a note before you jump to the link – it says that you can BUY OpenOffice – but they offer unlimited support for u...