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Sounds interesting. Is that a regular expression?

By Ananda | Published: March 7, 2011

I’ve been meaning to learn how to use regular expressions for quite some time now, but just never seemed to get around to doing so. The other night, I decided to take a stab at them though, and over the past few days, I’ve sort of managed to learn a few tricks. Some of these [...]

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Making an A6 booklet in OpenOffice.org the easy way

By Ananda | Published: November 19, 2009

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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Drop caps with OpenOffice.org Writer

By Ananda | Published: September 21, 2009

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

By Ananda | Published: July 26, 2009

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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Nested Lists and CSS

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 2, 2007

I don’t use lists too often for my own stuff, but I do have to use them often either with my work or with school assignments. Often these lists can be quite long, and have many lists nested within each other. I was recently converting an outline from a Word document to an HTML document, [...]

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