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’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…
In using OpenOffice Writer for preliminary work on manuscripts I often need to replace large amounts of formatting, mainly eliminating areas in which writers have used character formatting and replacing them with consistent use of styles. The native search/replace is not very good for this. There is an excellent solution, readily available: The AltSearch addon. …
This post is more of a story and may not be all that helpful, but then again, it might. I used to do a little bit of programming in Java, most applets, and so I decided I’d look at Java for OpenOffice.org and see where that got me. Having installed the SDK and gotten everything…
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
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 would really like to be able to recommend to a small business client that they adopt Linux because it is lower cost. I have been able to recommend OpenOffice.org to a number of folks, and have even had it accepted. That is because for most users it will perform all the functions for which…
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