Illustrated Call-Outs in OpenOffice
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
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Listing Tables and Indexes
Here’s a piece of code I adapted from the “Programming Guide to BASIC.” It didn’t actually prove to get me anywhere I wanted to go, but it might help in some other effort. This one simply iterates all indexes and tables in a document. ‘Just a simple routine I wrote along the way as I…
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…
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.
OpenOffice 3.0 Released
You can download it here, or find a review at pcmag. HT: OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas.
Fill in OO Calc
On a spreadsheet I needed to enter a formula in one cell and then fill down with that formula over a range. My first thought was that, as in VBA, I would record a macro and get the commands. I sometimes do that when I just can’t remember and am too lazy to look everything…
Libre Office Living Up to Its Name
I have long been an advocate of OpenOffice.org, and have some of my commercial clients using it. For most business needs for an office suite, it provides more than enough capability, and saves companies large amounts of money, even if they make significant donations to the project. I was disappointed in the latest version of…