There are quite a few ways of opening Microsoft Excel spreadsheets if Microsoft Excel is not installed on the computer system. The article will outline several popular ways of opening Excel spreadsheets so that the contents can be at least read and printed. Several of the methods even allow to work with the contents of [...]

Tags: excel, excel viewer, google docs, microsoft excel, open-office, spreadsheets, thinkfree, xls, xlsx, zoho
Categories: Online Services, Windows, software

I do a lot of writing. I also create presentations on occasion. Naturally, being an open source/Linux advocate, I use OpenOffice for all of my needs. One area where OpenOffice might consider a little less than user-friendly is the adding new templates for your use. Once you understand how this is done you will think [...]

Tags: Linux, office templates, open-office, presentation templates, presentations
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

Open Office 3.1 final has been released today. The Open Source alternative to Microsoft Office can be downloaded from download portals like Betanews but not directly from the Open Office homepage as it has not been updated yet to reflect the release of the new version. The new version of Open Office is packed with [...]

Tags: linux software, mac software, microsoft-office, office alternative, office suite, open office 3.1, Open Source, open-office, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

If you’ve ever had to create labels for mailings or any other reason you know how complicated labels can be (when using either a word processor or desktop publishing application). If you use Microsoft Windows you know there are plenty of solutions for label creation. But if you use Linux you might think you are [...]

Tags: design labels, glabels, labels, Linux, office, open-office, professional labels
Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

If you work in a business environment then you know the value of the office application. And if you have ever thought about using Linux in your office you know there are boundaries to adoption. The good thing is those boundaries are growing smaller and smaller with every year. The reason those boundaries are shrinking [...]

Tags: firefox, groupware, kontact, Linux, meeting room booking system, office applications, open-office, planner
Categories: Linux, Open Source, firefox, software

Looks like it is Open Office day here at Ghacks. We bring you another cool plugin for Open Office after the incredible useful Presenter Console plugin for Open Office. Sun’s Presentation Minimizer is available as a plugin for all supported operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It can be used to [...]

Tags: microsoft powerpoint, open office extension, open office plugin, open office presentations, open-office, presentation minimizer, presentations, sun presentation minimizer
Categories: Windows, software

Sun’s Presenter Console is a plugin for Open Office that is available for all supported operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and various other systems. The main purpose of the Open Office plugin is to aid presenters during presentations by displaying additional information on their screen. It works by showing the presenter [...]

Tags: open office extension, open office plugin, open-office, powerpoint presentation, presentation, presentation software, presenter console, Presenter Console Extension, presenter view, sun presenter console
Categories: Windows, software