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...
Happenings
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...
OO vs MS Office Tests
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...
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...
FTP Software
I got a call from one of my clients on this last night, so I thought I’d post the recommendation. I’m also adding a category “Software Recommendations” so that it’s easy to get a list by clicking on the category in the right sidebar. For FTP I recommend FileZilla....
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...
jEdit
This is just a short note. I couldn’t go much further without recommending my key tool without which I could not live. That is jEdit with a variety of plugins. By itself, jEdit is an excellent little text editor. With plugins it can provide a wonderful development environment. I...
Converting to OpenOffice.org – My Experience
I’ve seen many comments and questions on the various e-mail lists about just how compatible OpenOffice, especially OpenOffice.org Writer, actually is with Microsoft Office. I’ve largely converted my own business, including the publishing element (Energion Publications), and while there are some difficulties, the change in cost is well worth...
MacroEditor Problem
I tried to install MarcoEditor for Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird last night. Note that there is a warning on the support site about problems uninstalling the macro due to old format XPI file. I had no intention of uninstalling it, however, so I went ahead anyhow. Everything went well for Firefox, but...
Learning to Use Java with OpenOffice.org
This post is more of a story and may not be all that helpful, but then again, it might. I used to do a little bit of programming in Java, most applets, and so I decided I’d look at Java for OpenOffice.org and see where that got me. Having...