Tag Archives: OpenOffice.org
Making an A6 booklet in OpenOffice.org the easy way
Tutorial level: Elementary I recently had to create an A6 booklet for an event that was being hosted by DHAN Foundation/Tata-Dhan Academy. At first, I thought it would be a nightmare to design and print it—particularly because I only had one day to do the layout for a 60+ page book—but it turns out that [...]
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Am I inconsistent?
I won’t pretend that I don’t have any illegal software installed on my computers, but here are a couple of scenarios that have occurred at work recently. A student came to me with his new laptop and asked me “Can I have a copy of Office 2007?” I thought for a minute and said, “Um, [...]
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Drop caps with OpenOffice.org Writer
Tutorial Level: Elementary From time to time, I like some minor embellishments in my design, and one such embellishment I use is the drop cap that you commonly find in magazines and so on. In OpenOffice.org (OOo) it is pretty easy to do this throughout a document. As with the last tutorial, this one is [...]
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Automation with OpenOffice.org Writer
Tutorial Level: Intermediate At the Tata-Dhan Academy where I work, with each new batch of students, we try to promote the adoption of freeware or open-source software instead of promoting the already ridiculous levels of piracy that goes on around here. So, during our orientation, we introduce the students to OpenOffice.org—something which, unfortunately, causes many [...]
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Pivot Tables in Excel and OpenOffice.org Calc