OpenOffice
How to Add Sound to an OpenOffice 3.0 Impress Slide
© 2010 Ugur Akinci (1) Open the OpenOffice Impress slide to which you’d like to add a sound clip. This sound file will play each time you load the slide. (2) Click the Gallery button on the Graphics Toolbar (bottom of page). This will display the Gallery screen at the top of the selected slide:…
Read MoreOpenOffice 3.0 Impress — an Impressive Slide Presentation Program Indeed
© 2010 Ugur Akinci I have used Microsoft Office for god knows how many years and I’ll continue to use it in the foreseeable future. But OpenOffice is a great productivity suite too, and it’s free as well. Here is a quick look at Impress, OpenOffice 3.0’s impressive slide presentation program, the full equivalent of…
Read MoreHow to Create a Multi-Level Ordered List in OpenOffice
© 2010 Ugur Akinci (1) Create your list items without any ordering (numbers or letters). For example: Apple/Orange/Watermelon. (2) Select your list items and click the “Numbering On/Off” button in the Toolbar to toggle on numbers. (3) Add the second-level (indented) level of information. For example: Calories/PH-level. At this point the whole list will look…
Read MoreHow to Count the Number of Selected Records in a Dataset by OpenOffice CALC's DCOUNT Function
© 2010 Ugur Akinci OpenOffice is a free office applications suite provided by Sun Microsystems. (http://www.openoffice.org/) OpenOffice CALC is a powerful spreadsheet program which corresponds to Microsoft Excel. Here is how you can filter and count the number of records (rows) in a dataset by using OpenOffice CALC: Consider the following imaginary data set for…
Read MoreA Great Manual from Open Office: "Creating Large Documents"
The free writing suite Open Office has come up with a great free PDF document that should be of great help for all writers generating long (over 50 pages) documents. (I’d like to thank my reader George L. for bringing this free resource to my attention.) The 48-page “Creating Large Documents” is written in an…
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Wealth of Indexing Options in OpenOffice and LibreOffice
Introduction Indexing is indispensable for almost all books and documents out there. A satisfactory user experience would not be complete without a well organized and written index. OpenOffice and LibreOffice, two free and open-source office productivity software suites, offer such a wealth of indexing options. Indexing Options in OpenOffice Select Insert > Indexes and Tables…
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OpenOffice Writer Toolbars
Introduction Did you realize how many toolbars OpenOffice Writer offers? It is simple enough for a quick memo, yet powerful enough to create complete books with contents, diagrams, indexes, etc. You’re free to concentrate on your ideas while OpenOffice Writer makes them look great. Toolbars Galore It offers THREE separate toolbars for designing forms alone.…
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OpenOffice Draw and LibreOffice Draw Functions
Introduction OpenOffice (OO) Draw and its offshoot LibreOffice are such powerful applications but it’s a shame most people are not even aware of its power and functionalities, which all come for FREE! OpenOffice Draw is a free and open-source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Freehand, and Visio. It was created…
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