Recently on my Facebook Page, I linked to a site that had a way to link to recipes that you have saved on your computer.

I decided to put together a sample downloadable spreadsheet that you could adapt to your own use, and I’ve included links to recipes on the web and [...]

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 [...]

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 had previously posted a link to Go-OO as a lite alternative to OpenOffice, however this app seems to have changed its focus:

Speed
Compatibility with WordPerfect graphics
Compatibility with MS Excel Spreadsheet macros

This is good, however that still leaves an issue for those that don’t want to download the 150Mb file [...]

When you use the Tools –>  Mail Merge Wizard in OpenOffice, it is quite limiting in that you are restricted to ending up with an address block. The way to insert other fields is not as obvious.

I have put together the tutorial below to guide you through my way of tackling a requirement of inserting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A variation on the original scaling spreadsheet, this spreadsheet has standard deviation, average (mean) as well as grade scaling.

Scaling Factor Spreadsheet

This is a scaling spreadsheet which can be used by teachers to assist with grades – including calculations involving means and standard deviation.

Free downloads are offered without [...]

I was recently requested by a teacher to set up a spreadsheet to assist in scaling an examination result. The spreadsheet allows the user to enter in student numbers, student names, the original marks, the original scale (total marks for the assessment). There are then a number of columns with different scaling ratios applied, and [...]