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...
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...
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...
Calc is OpenOffice’s spreadsheet application with which you can set up tables that include fields and records. So you can set up flat-file (single table) databases with the package. However, the software doesn’t includ...
OpenOffice applications have a variety of options. Its Drawing toolbar includes options that you can add shapes to documents with. In addition, you can also add 3D effects to those shapes. Open a OpenOffice application such as Wri...
To add page numbers to OpenOffice documents, you would usually add a header or footer to the document first and then select Insert > Fields > Page Number. However, with the Pagination plug-in you can add page numbers directl...
Footnotes are something you can add at the bottom of OpenOffice Writer document pages. With them you can add additional numbered references to the bottom of the page for content in the document. This is how you can add footnotes t...
VLC Media Player is one that VideoLAN has recently updated with version 2.2, which you can add to Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms from here. Version 2.2. is a notable enhancement that includes new resume playback video optio...
If you’ve read the previous post, then you’re already aware that Facebook has officially released a web version of its Messenger app for mobile devices. The thing is you need to go to the official Messenger link just so you could ...
LibreOffice is a freeware office suite that includes word processor, presentation, vector drawing, database and spreadsheet applications. It’s based on the same code OpenOffice. LibreOffice has now been updated with a redesi...
Website search tools aren’t limited to browsers. OpenOffice also includes a search tool with which you can search the Web. That’s the OpenOffice hyperlink bar which you can enter keywords in much the same as a search e...
LibreOffice is a freeware office suite with a variety of extensions that you can add to extend its options. Among them is the Typography toolbar extension. That adds a toolbar to LibreOffice which includes typography options. Firs...
Bookmarking tools are widely incorporated in browsers so that you can quickly open websites. But office suites don’t usually have bookmarking options. However, you can still add bookmarks to OpenOffice with the Bookmarks Men...
