The idea behind Open Office 4 Kids is to provide a version of Open Office for children between the age of 7 and 12. The project is in its early stages with version 0.5 recently released to the public. The main difference between Open Office and Open Office 4 Kids are the missing features in [...]
Open Office 3.2 Beta
Open Office 3.2 Beta has been released yesterday which gives users and developers a preview of the final Open Office 3.2 release which is slated for a December release. A list of changes and additions to this version of the Open Source Microsoft Office alternative has been posted at the official website. The list format [...]
Create Free Microsoft Power Point Presentations
If you need to create a presentation but do not have access to Microsoft Power Point you can either use another software program like Open Office to create the presentations or use an online service like 280 Slides to create them. The benefit of using an online solution is that it can be used without [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 28th, 2009
- Comments: 10
Open and edit PDF files in OpenOffice
I get this a lot “How can I open and edit PDF files without having to purchase a costly application like QarkXPress”? Before OpenOffice extensions came about my answer to that would be “Not easily”. But now, thanks to a very useful tool created by Sun, editing a PDF file is as simple as adding [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jul 18th, 2009
- Comments: 7
How a virtual console can keep you from losing work
Just about fifteen minutes ago I was working on an article for Linux.com when I thought I was going to lose a ton of work. I was writing my last paragraph on a 1,600+ word article (entering the article in their web-based system). I was going back to OpenOffice to copy and paste all of [...]
How To Open Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets Without Excel
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 [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 27th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Installing new templates in OpenOffice 3
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 [...]
