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.
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
These tests don’t appear terribly relevant to much of anything, but here they are. I guess I was never that worried about feature bloat, and didn’t switch to OpenOffice because it was more efficient, but because it is less expensive and I like the way it accomplishes the features I do use better. But somewhere…
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…
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….
There’s an important OpenOffice BASIC guide that I failed to mention previously. It’s official, and the main index of the help file for OO BASIC, so I assumed it without mentioning it. It is Programming Guide for BASIC on docs.sun.com. For someone like me who has some experience with VBA, but no clues about OpenOffice,…
I would really like to be able to recommend to a small business client that they adopt Linux because it is lower cost. I have been able to recommend OpenOffice.org to a number of folks, and have even had it accepted. That is because for most users it will perform all the functions for which…
You can download it here, or find a review at pcmag. HT: OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas.
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