Often we need to use special characters that don’t appear on our keyboard. For example, my keyboard doesn’t have the pound sign (the one used for currency in the UK – £).
Fortunately there has been a guide published which will allow you to see various methods for inserting these special characters in OpenOffice.org.
So now you can insert all the ¥, ¤, ±, µ you want, using your preferred method of using macro, menus, autocorrect or key combinations.
In addition to the guides for Writer and Impress, there is also a downloadable manual for OpenOffice Calc.
Download the 516-page guide for OpenOffice Calc from Scribd.
Following on from last week’s post, OpenOffice also has a Guide for Impress.
Download the 292-page guide for OpenOffice Impress from Scribd.
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:
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