I was blown away. I have just installed and used OxygenOffice Professional on Windows XP. I must say – OpenOffice.org is great. But man, OxygenOffice Professional is even better.

The open source community does not just sit and wait for things to happen. They are active participants in [...]
Archive for the ‘August 2007’ Category
OxygenOffice Professional 2.2.0 – Extended, Open and Free
Posted in August 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
OpenOffice.org Extras
Posted in August 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
OpenOffice.org Extras is a project that accumulates templates, macros, documents, and a clip art / artwork image library from contributors all over the world. The goal of the project is to make available an add-on package that will greatly enhance OpenOffice.org’s functionalities . The extras are available in [...]
StarOffice is Google Pack’s new freebie
Posted in August 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else’s, there’s GooglePack. Google Pack is a collection of software applications that helps users install and maintain a wide range of essential PC programs. It includes Google software such as Google Earth, GoogleToolbar for [...]
Ways to convert OpenXML files
Posted in August 2007 on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Your boss just sent you a crucial document with a .docx extension (Microsoft Open XML Format ) rather than the traditional .doc extension. It seems your boss had just upgraded to MS Office 2007. You need to open and print the file , but you [...]
Style Is Everything part 2
Posted in August 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Styles and Formatting feature provides a way to set the appearance of documents. There are five categories of styles. Paragraph styles are associated with an entire paragraph. Character styles are associated with text inside a paragraph. Page styles affect page formatting, which includes page size, margin and orientation. [...]
Style Is Everything
Posted in August 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 4:00 pm and Maria had just finished printing her 50- page term paper that is due at 5:00 pm. She submits a copy to her teacher , who notices that her formating is all wrong. The font style and size should be Times New Roman , 10 instead of Arial, [...]
