I'm delighted to announce that my OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook has just been published!
To celebrate the publication (self-publication), I'd like to share some of the contents. The following links are to three of the chapters.
- Creating and Formatting Tables covers the basics as well as advanced topics like complex border formatting, autowidth, Autoformats (a great timesaver), converting between tables and other formats, doing calculations in tables, sorting, automatic numeric formatting, and more.
- Sorting and Filtering Spreadsheets covers standard sorting, sorting by multiple criteria and left to right, as well as a valuable tool for data entry or sorting, custom sort lists. Filtering, using the autofilter or the more powerful standard filter, is also included.
- Creating Impress Master Pages (Backgrounds) covers the benefits of formatting presentations with master pages, as well as how to modify them, create them, and essential tips for preserving the newly created master pages. You’ll also read about how to apply header and footer information to different views in a presentation, and create templates from your master pages.
For more information, click here to see the table of contents, or click here to learn more about the book.
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Coolness! You got a sweet write-up over at LifeHacker (http://www.lifehacker.com/software/open-office/download-free-chapters-from-openoffice-guidebook-220566.php).
Christmas came early!
Posted by: Roy Jacobsen | December 11, 2006 at 01:14 PM
Hi Roy,
Great to hear from you! Thanks for the link. I was pretty blown away by the LH folks.
Solveig
Posted by: Solveig Haugland | December 12, 2006 at 08:55 AM
I am trying to select multiple data cells in the data sheet of OpenOffice Impress charts. Currently, I am manually entering data into each cell. Is there a way to select a range of cells from Excel or Calc and directly copy past into the data sheet of an Impress chart?
Posted by: Conal Marwah | January 21, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Hey thank you! Great article and your guidebook rocks!
Posted by: Free Clipart | July 07, 2008 at 05:59 AM
I am trying to see if openoffice 2.4 has templates for brochures? I've searched bu have come up with nothing... unless, I am looking in the wrong place. Help.
Posted by: Rene'e | September 28, 2008 at 10:47 AM
Hi Rene,
Try this link
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/free-templates-clip-art-a.html
And also if you have templates for Word, just open them from OpenOffice.org and see if they'll work.
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I've been using the PowerPoint templates from http://www.123ppt.com and the Word templates http://from www.123docx.com for a while now without any problems.
Formatting and alignments all remain intact.
Posted by: Daniel | November 26, 2009 at 06:15 AM