OpenOffice
Back up OpenOffice.org Documents on Amazon S3
When it comes to cheap and secure off-site backup and storage, few services can beat Amazon S3. And if you want to easily back up your OpenOffice.org documents on Amazon S3, you can do so using a simple OpenOffice.org Basic macro and the s3cmd utility (http://s3tools.logix.cz/s3cmd). First of all, you have to install the s3cmd [...]
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OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.0 RELEASED
A new splash screen upon launch
Support for sharing Excel workbooks
Support for Excel sheets with up to 1024 columns
A solver component for solving optimization problems
Better polished crop and drawing tools
The display of multiple Writer pages while editing
Inclusion of Office commenting / change tracking in the document margin
Some support for Visual Basic macros
Enhanced support for [...]
Creating Nifty Reports Using OpenOffice.org Built-in Tools
Using the Sun Report Builder extension (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/reportdesign), you can create rather sophisticated reports. For example, the miniInvoices solution (http://code.google.com/p/writertools/downloads/list)) relies on this extension for printing single invoices and generating all sorts of reports. The problem with using a separate extension for adding functionality is that it makes the entire database solution less portable. Move the [...]
Adding Visual Word Count to OpenOffice.org
Although OpenOffice.org has a competent word count feature, it lacks one nifty trick: it can show you how many words and characters you’ve already written, but it won’t tell you how close you are to the target. Fortunately, you can write a simple OpenOffice.org macro that not only shows you how many percent of the [...]
