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Written By: stephanie on February 3, 2010 No Comment
Recipe Spreadsheet [Keeping Track of Food]

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 [...]

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Written By: stephanie on January 25, 2010 No Comment
2010 Calendar with Malaysian Public Holidays

In response to the Singapore Public Holidays calendar, I’ve also compiled a Malaysian Public Holidays calendar. This was trickier as it had state holidays as well as National holidays. It’s my first go at the Malaysian holidays calendar, so if I get any wrong, please post politely in the comments – it was not intentional.

I [...]

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Written By: stephanie on January 22, 2010 No Comment
2010 Calendar with Singapore Public Holidays

A big thanks to suhaw who has volunteered a 2010 calendar. I wish I had seen it before I had updated mine! So I am hereby placing a link to both:

suhaw’s 2010 calendar with Singapore public holidays
ozlady’s 2010 calendar with Singapore public holidays

January 2010

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Written By: stephanie on November 17, 2009 No Comment
Opening & Converting OpenOffice Documents

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 [...]

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Written By: stephanie on November 12, 2009 No Comment

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) [...]

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Written By: stephanie on October 26, 2009 1 Comment
Portable OpenOffice [OpenOffice on a Stick]

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 [...]

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Written By: stephanie on July 13, 2009 2 Comments
Need Help with OpenOffice [OpenOffice Forums]

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.

OpenOffice.org Forums [...]

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Written By: stephanie on December 27, 2008 No Comment
OpenOffice To Go [USB OpenOffice]

Need OpenOffice on a PC that doesn”t have it installed? Want to carry that and a suite of other useful software on your USB drive so that you can carry it with you?

Check out http://portableapps.com/

Portable OpenOffice on a Stick

It includes Firefox, OpenOffice, Pidgin and a host of other applications that have been adapted [...]

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Written By: stephanie on September 22, 2008 No Comment

I get really tired of fiddling with Avery Label templates in OpenOffice, and now there is a great resource that has it all done for you.

Check out the OpenOffice.org Label Templates (Asia & Europe) at World Labels.

There are other label templates for other regions as well, so enter above and click [...]

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Written By: stephanie on September 18, 2008 No Comment

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 [...]

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