OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas

Check out the winners of the Bossy awards

The awards for the Best Open Source Software are out!

The article

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/04/32TC-bossies-2008_1.html

Specific winners for databases, OSes, etc.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/tcdaily/archives/2008/08/best_of_open_so_4.html

Ubuntu won for operating system.

Specific winners for productivity apps.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/tcdaily/archives/2008/08/the_infoworld_b.html

OpenOffice.org, GIMP, and Firefox won their categories as usual.

Check out the lists for other ideas for new software to try!

If you use Linux, you MUST try gLabels

Download it now, use it now.

http://glabels.sourceforge.net/

This is a beautiful program, a well-balanced combination of power, simplicity, good design, and ease of use. Thanks to Keith for pointing it out to me.

There's no Windows or Mac version, sadly.

Among the things you can do are:
- automatically (no effort on your party) suppress empty address lines
- do bar codes
- point straight to a CSV or similar format file to bring in records
- deselect records you don't want to print
- add graphics and drawing shapes
- apply formatting
- easily preview the whole sheet

Here's a screen shot with a summary of what you do. I'll do more detailed instructions later but here's the quick info. I love it.