Posts Tagged ‘Office Productivity’
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 MoreTime Management and Productivity Tips for Technical Communicators
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Here are my own time-management and productivity suggestions for technical communicators: If you’re working as an independent technical writer from your own office, check your e-mail only 3 times a day — first thing in the morning, mid-afternoon (3 pm), and in the evening (9 pm). But I realize that for…
Read MoreA Meditation on Time Management for Technical Writers
(Excerpt) Time management means being able to say “no”. Whenever someone comes running to you saying “I need your help,” it’s automatically an emergency. You’re a team player, so you may say “Sure, I can help you with that” without thinking. Stop. Think. Less obvious but more common is the failure to prioritize tasks. How…
Read MoreGoogle Docs Presentation Application
© 2010 Ugur Akinci You can use this FREE application to create online presentations that you can reach from anywhere… as long as you have access to the Internet. I actually prepared the following presentation by using Google Docs Presentation:
Read MoreHow to Access Google Documents on Your Smart Phone
(Excerpts) This week, with a little extra time on my hands, I decided to try to look for a phone that I can use to access the full internet. I have a Boost phone I pay for by the month. In truth, I don’t use my phone much on a daily basis, but use it…
Read MoreScheduling and Keeping Up with Your Goals & Clients
You’ve made a New Year’s resolution… You want to write that book… Get that diploma or certificate… Exercise 3 times a week… or whatever it may be. But there’s a slight “problem”… How are you going to keep track of all those promises? Why, with scheduling software of course! Here are some suggestions: Google Calendar.…
Read MoreWhitelisting – a Comprehensive List of Instructions
Most mail servers protect their users from spam by a robust firewall and spam filter. That’s the good news. The bad news is, sometimes they do that too efficiently so that they end up blocking the email that you would like to receive as well. The solution is “whitelisting” such sources, that is, defining them…
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