OpenOffice.org Templates
More help from the folks at the OpenOffice blog, this time on templates. Good article.
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OpenOffice Writer Hyperlinked TOC
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.
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