Firefox doesn’t include any options to temporarily bookmark website pages. So if you bookmark a few pages on a temporary basis you’ll need to delete them from your favorites when they’re no longer required. Howev...
The middle mouse button opens and closes Firefox tabs, but that’s about it. However, with the Enhanced Middle Click add-on for the browser you can enhance the middle mouse button’s functions. For example, it ena...
This post told you how to copy Web page URLs with a Firefox add-on. But with Easy Copy you can copy Web page URLs, hyperlinks, HTML, titles and more besides. That’s a Firefox extension which adds website copy options to the ...
Another post covered OpenOffice’s VLOOKUP function to look up data with. Calc also has a HLOOKUP function that is similar. However, with HLOOKUP you can look up data in tables that have horizontal layouts. For example, set u...
This post covered how to add more templates to OpenOffice. In addition, you can also set up custom templates with your own layout and design. Custom templates will include headers, footers and placeholders that you can add to docu...
Templates give you a great shortcut for setting up documents such as letters. OpenOffice includes a variety of templates for spreadsheets, presentations and text documents; but it opens a default blank template when you press the ...
If you have a OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet with lots of blank cells in columns, there are a few ways to remove them. You could select the cell’s rows, right-click and then click Delete Rows. However, this is a better way to d...
When you open multiple windows the most recently opened takes precedence over the others. As such, the most recently opened window overlaps all the others. You can keep any window on top by pinning them with the PinMe software. To...
OpenOffice Calc is an application that includes a variety of spreadsheet functions. VLOOKUP is one of its functions you can add to spreadsheets. With that you can look up data from within a table. Let’s suppose you have a s...
NHL hockey, NFL football or NBA basketball fans can find further updates for those sports with Sports Dashboard. Sports Dashboard is a Firefox extension that adds a sports dashboard to the browser. With that you can quickly find s...
Firefox includes forward and back buttons to flick through pages opened in the same tab. In addition, you can also right-click those buttons to open a list of opened pages. Session History Tree is a Firefox add-on that enhances th...
Lots of pages include mailto hyperlinks that open email software with addresses already entered into the text editor. That’s fine if you’re planning on sending the email with that software. However, if you’re not...
Sometimes Calc users might need to split data in one column into another. As such, Calc has a Text to Columns option for splitting columns. With that you can cut your spreadsheet columns down to size. Open a spreadsheet and then ...
Impress is the presentation application included with the OpenOffice suite. With it you can set up presentations, as covered here, and photography slideshows. You can set up a photo album slideshow more quickly by adding the Photo...
Do you need to convert lots of numbers in a spreadsheet to text? If so, you can do exactly that with OpenOffice’s Numbertext plug-in. That’s a plug-in which adds a new NUMBERTEXT function to Calc spreadsheets. Open thi...
