OpenOffice is a freeware office suite that includes presentation, word processor, spreadsheet and database applications. With OpenOffice templates you can quickly set up a variety of documents, but only a small number are included...
Outline indicators are handy for Calc spreadsheets with lots of data in them. An outline indicator is a tool with which you can collapse or expand rows of data. So with outline indicators you can temporarily remove rows from sprea...
OpenOffice is a flexible office suite. You can add extra options to the suite with extensions. Among those extensions is Text Effects, which adds a few extra text effect options to Writer. First, head over to the extension’s...
If you have set up a large spreadsheet with OpenOffice calc, check out the Navigator tool. That gives you a quicker way to navigate documents. With the tool you can jump straight to specific cell references and other things in the...
Calc is the spreadsheet application included with the freeware OpenOffice. When you enter lots of text in a Calc cell, it goes beyond the cell’s borders. Sure, you can resize the cell’s column width so that it fits the...
If you set up a OpenOffice spreadsheet with a variety of sheets, the Consolidate option might come in handy. That’s an option with which you can set up functions for data across multiple sheets. With that you can copy data f...
Opera Mail was once a part of the Opera browser, but has been removed from it. Now Opera Mail is available as a desktop email client that you can add to Windows, Linux or Mac OS. With Opera Mail you can open your email from Gmail,...
Have you ever thought of using your Android smartphone or tablet as a wireless keyboard and computer mouse? Yes, that’s right. You can use it instead of your standard mouse and trackpad. As a matter of fact, it’s not that difficul...
If you’ve found a video with a great background soundtrack, you can extract that into a separate audio file with a few software packages. Among them is the freeware video editor Avidemux. With that you can save video audio a...
OpenOffice is a freeware office software suite. Among its software packages are a word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation application. The suite’s presentation application is Presentation, and that’s the...
One of the ways web browsers make money is by selling their default search engine spot (aka the search engine a web browser is configured to use out-of-the-box) to the highest bidder. For the longest time, that highest bidder was ...
Website pages include lots of things that you could add to your desktop as widgets. For example, their search boxes would be great addition to any desktop. With the Snippage Adobe AIR desktop app you can add portions of a website ...
To add background themes to text documents, you’ll need a text editor that has theme options. Forget about MS Word, and almost any other alternative package, and add Qute to your desktop or laptop. Qute is a freeware word pr...
LibreOffice is a freeware office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet and database application. The default LibreOffice file format is ODF. Unless you select an alternative from the file drop-down list on the Save as ...
OpenOffice Writer includes a hyperlink option like many of the alternative word processor software packages. Whilst you can add links to documents with the Hyperlink button on the toolbar, there’s a better, quicker way to ad...
