Posts Tagged ‘Office Productivity’
A 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…
Read MorePersonal Productivity Tips and Tools
Here are some personal productivity tools and tips for you: *** Track Your Documents *** You have sent a PDF or Word document by email. But do you know if it has been read at all? Now there is a software that can tell you not only if your attachment is read but also * …
Read More10 MS PowerPoint Power Tips for Greater Productivity
PowerPoint is a great tool for writers to present ideas, products and services. Follow these 10 power-user tips provided by Microsoft to give riveting, effective and memorable PPT presentations. 1. Provide a compelling spoken content to accompany your PPT slides. 2. Keep your slides simple. Do not have more than six lines of written information…
Read More5 Things You Might Not Know You Can Do on Google
1. Enter “define” in the Google search box, then a colon, then a space, and then the word or expression you want defined. 2. Find out what Google thinks about just about anything or anyone (including you) at www.googlism.com 3. Enter an airplane’s tail number in the Google search box to find out the plane’s…
Read MoreEXCEL Tutorial – How to Construct a Compounding Interest Financial Calculator
You can construct an almost infinite variety of calculators right within your MS EXCEL spreadsheet application. Here is how you can construct your own 10-year compounding interest financial calculator that would help you to see, for example, how much your $100 will grow at x percent of interest a year, on a year by year…
Read MoreOpen Source Software – 10 Great Free Tools of Technical Communication
Are you sick and tired of paying hundreds of dollars for writing and design software that does not work? You may want to give the following open-source programs a try. OpenOffice, the king and queen of office suits. Available for PC, Mac and Linux platforms. (Try NeoOffice if you own a Mac.) Totally free and…
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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…
Read MoreUse Google Calendar to Remember Birthdays, Anniversaries and Important Dates
I’m blessed with many family members and friends that I love and care for. The downside is, I can’t remember all their birthdays, especially when my extended family grows each year with the arrival of new beautiful babies. So here is what I do: I enter all those dates into Google Calendar by clicking the…
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