This is quite a useful tutorial on how to integrate templates into your documents for use with OpenOffice writer.

Video on How to Use Writer Templates

Click on the link above to access the tutorial.

Living in a metric society, it is much more convenient to have OpenOffice talking to me in metric measurements, rather than in empirical measurements.

So I had fiddled with locals and other such measurements, however this did not seem to change the values presented when I clicked on Format –> Page.

To do this, I followed the [...]

I apologise for any that are looking for old posts from this site.

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.

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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If you find OpenOffice too big for your liking, a lite version is now available.

Go to http://go-oo.org/

Diet OpenOffice is Now Available!

There are a number of good how-to guides out there which detail explicit instructions and information on how to create different projects in OpenOffice.

I include a list of some of them here:

How to Write a Thesis in OpenOffice [PDF]
This is not only good for a thesis, but for any general writing (especially for academic [...]

One of the main attractions of MS Office is the templates that are available. MS Office templates do mostly work in OpenOffice, however sometimes we do get some disappointing results, and often we don”t want to have to worry about trying to fit a MS template into an OpenOffice program in a short period of [...]

I had a request from a friend who finds that her MS Word label templates are not working in OpenOffice, and had asked me if I had any quick fixes. I”ve been out shopping all afternoon so I don”t, but knowing the internet, I wondered if anyone else did, and sure enough, more→

In answer to a question from Chewy – yes. OpenOffice is available on Mac. More information about system requirements and downloading of installation files can be found by clicking on the image below.

OpenOffice has been ported to a number of different platforms, including:

Mac OS X
Linux [...]

Well this site must start with one post, so here it is.

I have a number of clients and friends who have expressed frustration with Microsoft’’s products. Not because they are bad, or inferior, but mainly because they are costly. I serve a number of SMEs – and they are mostly S’’s (smalls). I know there [...]