OpenOffice.org Templates
More help from the folks at the OpenOffice blog, this time on templates. Good article.
Similar Posts
New Version Booklet Template for OO Writer
I’ve uploaded a new version of the 6×9 booklet template (previously here) set up for table of contents, index, and various headers and footers. I’ve used more variables to reduce the amount of user input. You should plan to edit this as a template first, as it contains my publishing information (Energion Publications set currently…
Numbers, Text, Dates, and Sorting in Calc
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….
No Real Market for Linux Desktops
Jason Hiner of TechRepublic, in an article titled The market has rejected Linux Desktops. Get over it shows that Linux market share in desktop computing has hung in the +/- 1% ranger for a decade and suggests this is unlikely to change very much. He cites a number of reasons, but I think the most…
AltSearch for OpenOffice Writer
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. …
Sorting a Scriptural Index – Take I
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…
Change Endnotes to Footnotes in OO Writer
It’s easy to change the position of footnotes and treat them as endnotes using the dialog at Tools->Footnotes/Endnotes, but if they are endnotes, it’s a bit more difficult. There are a couple of options given on the OpenOffice forum. I had a document with over 800 endnotes that I wanted as footnotes. I chose the…