I had to play media from an Impress Presentation today, and was hoping to work from my Ubuntu laptop, however ran into a few hiccups along the way. Here are some notes from my experience – I hope that anyone that comes across this (a) finds it useful and (b) if they have anything to [...]

Calendar Templates for OpenOffice

I have had a fair interest in my modified Calendar Template with Singapore Public Holidays for 2009, so I thought I would post links to other calendar templates here.

Generic Calendar Template
Yearly Calendar Templates for Excel [...]

I read recently in a forum that someone was having an issue with overflow text, and while I’m not sure that this answers their question 100%, I think the use of frames in OpenOffice might get them pointed in the right direction.

Insert -> Frame is the command to insert a frame, and depending on [...]

You may well be here because you need help with OpenOffice, and if that’s the case, then please feel free to drop a comment to let me know what pressing issues you face, however sometimes you need the help of many – and that’s one of the benefits of Open Source Software.

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I am currently hacking old code to reproduce them, as it was too difficult to import old posts due to my making too big an upgrade to the software used to run this site.

We’ll be up and running ASAP.

PC Mag suggests that we can Use Excel as an Architectural Design Tool.

So why not use Calc, as it has the advantage of being able to specify the ’squares’ quite easily, as row height and width is set using measures (cm or inches), rather than column width being set as a measure, and column [...]

Still free, and still with easy to use features, and with my favourite native port-to-PDF capability, OpenOffice is still an amazing Office application, and my application of choice for word processing, spreadsheet and presentation functionality. All FREE!

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There are few reasons that I can think of that a personal user, or SOHO user, [...]

There are loads of calendar templates that are US-centric, so I decided to do one for Singapore for 2009.

It’s not strictly a template (it is in ODS format), however I hope that you find it useful.

All the holidays are based on the Ministry of Manpower published holidays for 2009.

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