GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free and open source alternative to Photoshop that is available on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Mac OS X, and Linux; it provides huge network of extensions and add-ons. Today I will cove...
You can add spreadsheet cell validation to highlight invalid data. If you add data validation to spreadsheets, invalid cell data is blocked. For example, to limit spreadsheet cells to numerical values only you can add data validat...
Grid colors can notably enhance spreadsheet formatting and layout. Most spreadsheet applications have at least a few options that you can add grid colors with. There’s a few ways that you can add grid colors to OpenOffice Ca...
Whilst the freeware OpenOffice suite has a spreadsheet application, you can also set up spreadsheet tables with its word processor. You can add formulas to the word processor’s tables much the same as a spreadsheet grid. Con...
OpenOffice spreadsheets display cell formula values by default. As such, the formulas you put in the spreadsheet are not entirely visible. However, there are a couple of ways you can display the cell formulas instead of their nume...
By default all text in the freeware OpenOffice word processor is horizontal. However, some might require document designs with alternative text directions, such as diagonal and vertical. You can change the OpenOffice text directio...
GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP for short, is a very powerful image editing tool. Let’s face it, we all need something to edit our pictures and we need something a little better than paint. Some people turn to Photos...
Recently I was browsing through a list of all of the applications that I use, some of them are not very popular but they are very useful. I needed away to cut-down the list and so I decided to list cross-platform applications only...
Chromebooks are wonderful machines for the cost, yet they run an operating system that not everyone is happy with. ChromeOS is very web based, meaning everything you do requires an Internet connection. The other major pitfall of C...
The previous articles in this three-part series covered setting up database tables and adding forms for them with OpenOffice Base. However, you can still add more to it such as database reports which give a more specific overview ...
In part one of our guide on how to setup OpenOffice Base database, we covered how you can set up the tables for a software database. Of course, you can input software records directly into those database tables; but it’s bet...
The freeware OpenOffice spreadsheet application, which you add to your Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Mac OS X or Linux software library from this website, is one with a variety of formatting options. Among them is a conditional fo...
Those who add software to their PC or Mac willy-nilly might lose track of some of the software they have installed. Would it not be great to have a database which you can open to find the location of all your installed software? T...
This article is part of an ongoing series that hopes to bring a working knowledge of Linux to users of Windows. In the first article, we introduced Linux on a basic level. In the second article, we answered some commonly asked que...
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, that gives you tools similar to Microsoft Office and is available on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Mac OS X, and Linux. One feature of Microsoft Office is the ability to choose a skin...
