I’m not very good at this myself, even though I’m personally committed. Here are some ideas that might help.
I ran into a problem with the formatting in cells today for sorting. I was trying to sort a number of dates, and they kept sorting as strings. I set the format of the cells to the appropriate date format, made sure all the cells were showing up that way, and tried the sort again….
Update: Please see my next try at this. If you mess up the count of instances of “scripture index” in the rather unhandy way I found the scripture index you could get some nasty results. The new one fixes that. I have finally gotten the first draft of the little routine I mentioned earlier for…
This is an OpenOffice.org template for a 6×9 booklet. I use this in writing and publishing. It includes the following features: Blank page with no footer to fill in and force chapter titles to an odd (right hand) page Right left page footers and headers using the book title on the left and chapter title…
A person with a toolkit generally spends a bit of time learning to use the tools in it, otherwise he or she will get limited benefit from the tools available. It’s important to have the right tools, and it’s also important to learn how to use them effectively. This post applies in that general sense…
More help from the folks at the OpenOffice blog, this time on templates. Good article.
My never ending quest for better clip art sources (I can’t draw a straight line with a ruler), and my desire to make Ubuntu more and more usable for all my work needs, converged with OpenClipart.org. It’s a good source, and you can install it in Ubuntu with your Add/Remove command. But then, where is…