I have had to do some reports lately, so I have adapted this in to a template for OpenOffice.

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT TEMPLATE

I hope you find it useful. Some screenshots are included below.

Front / Cover Page

Abstract Page

Tables, text and headings

I understand if you don’t wish to install another piece of software on your computer – or perhaps you have OpenOffice at home and Word or Excel at work and forgot to convert that important file before you emailed it to yourself.

If you have a gmail account, or a google apps account, you can use [...]

A great deal of people using spreadsheets love using keyboard shortcuts.

Here are some selected Excel and Calc default keyboard shortcuts – and the difference in accessing the related functions. Below are some additional shortcut keys that are useful in Calc.

Function
Excel Shortcut
Calc Shortcut

Rearranges the relative or absolute references (for example, A1, $A$1, $A1, A$1) [...]

Just a quick post with a bit of a find: OpenOffice.org Ninja has a great post on how to share spreadsheets on a network, with updates and change conflict resolution.

Cooool

I recently saw a question regarding line breaks in the table of contents – OpenOffice does not allow you to edit a table of contents except through styles. Sometimes the way that long headings are formatted might not be what you desire.

One thing to note about the TOC is that the line breaks that you [...]