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Atlassian Confluence Connects with Office, MOSS
Atlassian has released the latest version of their Confluence enterprise wiki software, officially releasing their SharePoint Connector and a new Connector that will make many MS Office and Open Office users happy.
Linux News: Applications: What's Holding OpenOffice Back?
Why don't more people use OpenOffice, the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office? Microsoft has spent years and dollars engineering creative ways to keep people using its costly software and preventing them from switching to OpenOffice -- that's one explanation, writes Lou Dolinar.
Espousal of ODF by the Department of IT GoNCT Delhi
Fri, 07/04/2008 - 14:47Bob Sutor goes 100% Linux on the desktop; Mac surges; where’s Windows?
Nice to see Bob Sutor has made the complete switch to Linux for laptop use at work. I remember the day I wiped out my Windows partition on my laptop - it was memorable. I then went an entire year booting Windows in VMWare only about 3-5 times.
It’s great to see the transition starting to happen everywhere. Even if some of the transitions are to Mac, it’s greater choice.
Simplify Wine with PlayOnLinux
Fri, 06/27/2008 - 08:53I’m usually quite happy with Linux software, so I don’t use Wine all that much. Normally, I only use Wine to test some web pages in IE. But now and then I have the need to edit some word file that Open Office can’t handle. For that reason I recently installed Microsoft Office on my Ubuntu at work with the help of PlayOnLinux.
Creating your own order to sort with: leaving alphanumeric in the dust
Mon, 06/23/2008 - 11:10I've been blogging about sorting for a while:
There's just one more thing to mention: creating your own custom sort order.
Existing sort orders are things like Monday Tuesday Wednesday (the right order, which is not alphabetical). But let's say you've got things you want in a certain logical but non-alphabetical order that aren't already set up in OpenOffice.org: titles of books or people, procedures done in a certain order, or your own abbreviations for the days of the week. You can create sort orders for those very easily so you can sort by them.
Can we give every school child in the UK a Linux notebook and still save money?
The simple answer is 'yes' we could do it now and we will save the taxpayer millions of pounds.
In previous posts I have documented the exponential rise in school ICT costs over the past 20 years. The articles focussed on costing ICT fully. This meant summing the costs of software purchase, software licensing, hardware replacement cycle, support costs and&nbs [...]
Better writing with OpenOffice.org and Writer's Tools
Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:28User-defined motion paths in OpenOffice Impress 2.3 and higher
Mon, 06/16/2008 - 12:08Back in the good old days of 1.x, you could draw a line, then draw an object, and make the object move along whatever line that was. It was great.
Then the lovely redesign of Impress came, and that user-defined motion path feature got lost along the way. It was a sad time.
However, now in 2.3 it's back! It works slightly differently, but it's great. In addition, you can edit the existing motion paths like the stars, etc. Here's how it works.
Draw an object, then under Custom
Animation???s Motion Paths tab, select any one of the first three
effects.
OpenOffice Writer Styles Article on TechTarget.com
Thu, 06/12/2008 - 11:02I've written a big "what, why, and how" article on styles for TechTarget.com.
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1230137,00.html
It starts with just how useful styles are in daily life and why they make life great, then goes into just how to apply, create, and update them.
TechTarget Article: Numbered and Bulleted Lists in OpenOffice Writer
Thu, 06/05/2008 - 11:56I've written a fairly comprehensive article for techtarget on lists.
See also this post on how to do numbering with fields. Fields are a more reliable but more complex approach.
PDF Import and Hybrid PDFs in OpenOffice.org 3.0
Wed, 06/04/2008 - 13:24TechTarget Article: Using Master Documents in OpenOffice Writer
Mon, 06/02/2008 - 11:51I've written an article for TechTarget.com about using master documents in OpenOffice.org Writer.
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1230368,00.html
Master documents are used to combine lots of other Writer documents. They're similar to Word master files or Frame book files in that they
organize your subdocuments, let you create a unified table of contents,
etc. They're a bit picky but once you've got them set up, they work quite reliably.
Similarities between Microsoft Office PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress
Tue, 05/27/2008 - 21:33Using a new product requires some re-learning. That’s unavoidable. But you rarely have to learn an entirely new set of skills - it’s just that the new stuff sticks out at us. This article is to emphasize the similarities between the OpenOffice.org Impress and Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation tools. These are the things you can instantly do with no relearning.
Publisher Extension Makes Wikis Editable in OpenOffice [Featured Download]
Thu, 05/22/2008 - 12:40
