Getting People to Use OpenOffice
I’m not very good at this myself, even though I’m personally committed. Here are some ideas that might help.
I’m not very good at this myself, even though I’m personally committed. Here are some ideas that might help.
I’m a bit eccentric and don’t use the visual editor with WordPress on this blog and several others that I maintain. For a number of posts I write my basic material in OpenOffice Writer and then post it. Up to now I have added the formatting by hand, but today I decided to write myself…
In a previous post I provided code for a simple macro I wrote to export text from an Office Writer document that was suitable to paste in the non-visual WordPress editor. The reason I wrote this was to produce the minimal HTML necessary without cluttering the resulting document. Occasionally I write in Writer and then…
I’ve seen many comments and questions on the various e-mail lists about just how compatible OpenOffice, especially OpenOffice.org Writer, actually is with Microsoft Office. I’ve largely converted my own business, including the publishing element (Energion Publications), and while there are some difficulties, the change in cost is well worth it. Even for a very small…
There’s a good article on this at OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas. It’s probably just my style, but I find the entry editor harder to use than creating macros, so I like to find these good point by point directions.
I use GIMP for almost all my graphics work. It’s actually often too complicated for me, as I’m not very artistic. Nonetheless when one of the artistic people wants me to do something, I go to GIMP. I’m not going to pay for Photoshop when most of what it does is quite beyond my skills….
More help from the folks at the OpenOffice blog, this time on templates. Good article.