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How to Insert FIELDS into an OpenOffice Writer Technical Document

By Ugur Akinci | September 8, 2011

© Ugur Akinci OpenOffice Writer is the free equivalent of MS Word. Unless you have very particular needs, you can do a lot with OpenOffıce. One sophisticated feature OpenOffice shares with MS Word is the ability to insert FIELDS (variables) into your technical documents. Here are the basic steps: 1) Launch your OpenOffice Write document.…

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How to Combine Multiple OpenOffice Writer Subdocuments in a Master Document

By Ugur Akinci | September 7, 2011

© Ugur Akinci OpenOffice Writer, a part of the free OpenOffice suite of office applications, has a pretty robust Master Document functionality. You can combine several separate subdocuments into a single bigger one by using an OpenOffice Master Document. The basic steps are straight forward, although OO offers an amazing array of options, a long…

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How to Insert a Bookmark in a MS Word Document

By Ugur Akinci | September 6, 2011

To insert a bookmark in a Word document: (1) Open your MS Word document. (2) Insert your cursor where you’d like the bookmark to appear; or, select the texct that you want to bookmark. (3) On the ribbon, select Insert > Bookmark to display the Bookmark dialog box: (4) Enter a Name for the bookmark.…

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Speed Up Your MS Word by Disabling Background Repagination Option

By Ugur Akinci | September 1, 2011

MS Word can use a lot of resources and thus slow down if your “background repagination” option is turned on. If you are working on a long document and if you feel MS Word is not responding quickly to your commands, you might try disabling background repagination. For MS Word 2007: Make sure your Word document is NOT…

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