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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In my previous post on sorting a scripture index, I used a rather lousy way of telling where the index was in the document. This came back to bite me today when I changed the number of references to a scripture index in a manuscript. In order to avoid this, use the following code instead….
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.
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…
Finding OpenClipart in Ubuntu
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…
Beginning Work with Draw
As a means of teaching myself how to program OO Draw using OO Basic, I am trying to duplicate some of the functionality of a game mapping system I wrote some years ago using C++. I’m going to post my earliest material here just because it took me a bit of effort to find out…
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OpenOffice 3.1 for Ubuntu Jaunty
I’m sure a few people will be wondering. You can find good instructions here.