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+               <title type="html">Openoffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know 
You Could Do</title>
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+               <updated>2009-02-20T16:09:24+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;[From &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D237197,00.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC
 Mag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even though OpenOffice.org - which is, yes, an application suite, not 
just a Web site - can&amp;#8217;t do everything Office can, it can do a lot, 
and it has some of its own tricks that even Office can&amp;#8217;t manage. Here 
are a few that may not be obvious, as well as a few ways to make OpenOffice.org 
less annoying out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;Edit two or more parts of a document at the same 
time&lt;/strong&gt;. Microsoft Word has a nifty split-window feature that lets 
you divide the current window into two panes, so you can edit page 5 of your 
document in the top pane and page 505 in the bottom. To switch from one pane to 
the other, you don&amp;#8217;t have to waste time scrolling back and forth - 
you simply click in the other pane. OpenOffice.org doesn&amp;#8217;t let you 
split a window into two panes, but it offers an even better feature. Click the 
Window menu, then New Window, to open a new window that displays the same 
document you&amp;#8217;re working on. You can open as many windows as you want, 
each at a different place in your document; any change you make in one window 
immediately appears in all others. You can reduce screen clutter by turning off 
toolbars in one or more windows (use View | Toolbars), and you can tile or 
cascade the windows by right-clicking on the OpenOffice.org button on the 
Windows taskbar.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Use OpenOffice.org to open legacy 
documents&lt;/strong&gt;. Years ago, older versions of Microsoft Office could 
open documents created by almost any of the myriad word processors and 
spreadsheet programs that were widely used before Microsoft monopolized the 
market. Recent versions of Office can&amp;#8217;t open many of those older 
formats - including old Microsoft Word versions such as Word 6.0. By contrast, 
OpenOffice.org continues to open Word documents dating back to Version 6.0. 
OpenOffice.org also opens WordPerfect documents, including files created in 
WordPerfect for the Macintosh 3.5 Enhanced, which not even WordPerfect for 
Windows tries to open. By the way, there&amp;#8217;s something confusing about 
OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s claims. The product purports to support at least one 
format that never existed: the list of supported file types in its File | Open 
dialog includes &amp;#8220;Microsoft WinWord 5.0&amp;#8243;, even though there 
never was such a version. Word for Windows skipped from 2.0 to 6.0 in its 
version numbers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;Play a vintage Space Invaders game&lt;/strong&gt;. 
Remember the days of software &amp;#8220;Easter Eggs&amp;#8221;? They were 
not-very-secret keystrokes or mouse clicks that brought up silly graphics in 
some programs and games in others. Even Microsoft Excel used to have a secret 
game built in before Redmond lost its sense of humor. 
OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s Calc spreadsheet program still includes a 1990s-era 
shoot-&amp;#8217;em-up Space Invaders game. Open the Calc app, and in any cell 
enter: =GAME(&amp;#8221;StarWars&amp;#8221;) Make sure to copy the 
capitalization shown here. Calc will open a StarWars game in which you shoot 
down a fleet of evil alien ships. The explanatory text is in German (the 
original version of OpenOffice.org was written in Germany), but you 
don&amp;#8217;t need to know even English to play the game. Calc has a slightly 
Teutonic attitude toward fun-and-games, however: after you quit the game, 
you&amp;#8217;ll need to shut down Calc and start it up again before you can 
play a second time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;Turn off the blinking light bulb&lt;/strong&gt;. By 
default, a light-bulb icon appears in a tiny window whenever OpenOffice.org 
does anything that isn&amp;#8217;t exactly what you typed - for example, when 
it replaces two hyphens with a dash. It doesn&amp;#8217;t exactly blink, but 
after the third or fourth time it opens, you may think of it as &amp;#8220;that 
blinking light bulb&amp;#8221; (you might use a word other than 
&amp;#8220;blinking&amp;#8221;). To turn it off permanently, go to Tools | 
Options, and then, in the left-hand pane, expand the menu tree by clicking the 
plus sign next to OpenOffice.org. In the General dialog, remove the check mark 
next to Help Agent.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;Save files in Office formats by 
default&lt;/strong&gt;. By default OpenOffice.org saves files in its own 
format, which most Microsoft Office users can&amp;#8217;t open. You can save 
individual files in Office format by using OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s File | 
Save as… menu and selecting a Word format from the Save as Type dropdown. But 
you can tell OpenOffice to save in Office formats by default by choosing Tools 
| Options, then find the Load/Save category, and the General subcategory. In 
the Document Type dropdown, choose Text Document, and in the Always Save As 
dropdown, choose Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP. Then, in the Document Type 
dropdown, choose Spreadsheet, and in the Always Save As dropdown, choose 
Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP. These choices will create files that can be read by 
any modern word processor or spreadsheet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;Automate actions easily&lt;/strong&gt;. Many 
advanced Microsoft Office users take advantage of macros that run automatically 
when you open, print, or close a file, but Office&amp;#8217;s interface 
doesn&amp;#8217;t provide built-in clues for creating an AutoClose macro that 
will run whenever you close a document. OpenOffice.org goes Office one better 
by providing a menu-driven interface that lists all the actions that can 
automatically trigger macros - and these include a wider range of actions than 
the ones that can be automated easily in Office. For example, you can create a 
macro that is triggered every time the number of pages in a document increases 
and that inserts a header with a page number if the number goes above, say, 
two. Other actions that can automatically trigger macros include saving a 
document under a different name and running a mail merge. To use this feature, 
record the macros you want to use, then go to Tools | Customize | Events and 
assign your chosen macro to specific events.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;7. &lt;strong&gt;Fix those single quotes&lt;/strong&gt;. By default, 
OpenOffice.org Writer creates good-looking, curly 
&amp;#8220;typographic&amp;#8221; double-quotation marks as you type, but when 
you type a single quotation mark (or an apostrophe) it uses a vertical line, as 
if you were still using your grandfather&amp;#8217;s manual typewriter. Fix 
this by going to Tools | AutoCorrect…, then go to the Custom Quotes tab and, 
under Single Quotes, add a check mark next to Replace.&lt;/p&gt;
+
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target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt;writer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+               <author>
+                       <name>Italo Vignoli</name>
+                       <uri>http://www.italovignoli.org</uri>
+               </author>
+               <source>
+                       <title type="html">OOopinions</title>
+                       <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source 
software</subtitle>
+                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/>
+                       <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id>
+                       <updated>2009-02-20T18:00:23+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
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                <title type="html">Still have some wishes for Base?</title>
                <link 
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-                       <updated>2009-02-18T18:00:31+00:00</updated>
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-               <title type="html">Mobile Posting</title>
-               <link 
href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/nU5zs4mj1Bo/"/>
-               <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/mobile-posting/</id>
-               <updated>2009-02-11T16:40:54+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m writing this post 
on my Nokia E71 with Wavelog. It&amp;#8217;s the first post of this kind, but I 
hope that the possibility of blogging from mobile will help me in writing more 
frequently than during the last few months (for many reasons: work, family, 
etcetera). Let&amp;#8217;s hope for the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">OOopinions</title>
-                       <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source 
software</subtitle>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/>
-                       <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id>
-                       <updated>2009-02-18T18:00:31+00:00</updated>
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-<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: February 20, 2009 12:00 
PM GMT</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: February 20, 2009 06:00 
PM GMT</em></p>
 
+<h2>February 20, 2009</h2>
+<h3>
+<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="OOopinions">
+Italo Vignoli</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/vR7Rr3Hty3E/";>
+Openoffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+<p>[From <a 
href="http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D237197,00.asp";><em>PC 
Mag</em></a>]</p>
+<p>Even though OpenOffice.org - which is, yes, an application suite, not just 
a Web site - can&#8217;t do everything Office can, it can do a lot, and it has 
some of its own tricks that even Office can&#8217;t manage. Here are a few that 
may not be obvious, as well as a few ways to make OpenOffice.org less annoying 
out of the box.</p>
+<p>1. <strong>Edit two or more parts of a document at the same time</strong>. 
Microsoft Word has a nifty split-window feature that lets you divide the 
current window into two panes, so you can edit page 5 of your document in the 
top pane and page 505 in the bottom. To switch from one pane to the other, you 
don&#8217;t have to waste time scrolling back and forth - you simply click in 
the other pane. OpenOffice.org doesn&#8217;t let you split a window into two 
panes, but it offers an even better feature. Click the Window menu, then New 
Window, to open a new window that displays the same document you&#8217;re 
working on. You can open as many windows as you want, each at a different place 
in your document; any change you make in one window immediately appears in all 
others. You can reduce screen clutter by turning off toolbars in one or more 
windows (use View | Toolbars), and you can tile or cascade the windows by 
right-clicking on the OpenOffice.org button on the Windows taskbar.</p>
+<p>2. <strong>Use OpenOffice.org to open legacy documents</strong>. Years ago, 
older versions of Microsoft Office could open documents created by almost any 
of the myriad word processors and spreadsheet programs that were widely used 
before Microsoft monopolized the market. Recent versions of Office can&#8217;t 
open many of those older formats - including old Microsoft Word versions such 
as Word 6.0. By contrast, OpenOffice.org continues to open Word documents 
dating back to Version 6.0. OpenOffice.org also opens WordPerfect documents, 
including files created in WordPerfect for the Macintosh 3.5 Enhanced, which 
not even WordPerfect for Windows tries to open. By the way, there&#8217;s 
something confusing about OpenOffice.org&#8217;s claims. The product purports 
to support at least one format that never existed: the list of supported file 
types in its File | Open dialog includes &#8220;Microsoft WinWord 5.0&#8243;, 
even though there never was such a version. Word for Windows skipped from 2.0 
to 6.0 in its version numbers.</p>
+<p>3. <strong>Play a vintage Space Invaders game</strong>. Remember the days 
of software &#8220;Easter Eggs&#8221;? They were not-very-secret keystrokes or 
mouse clicks that brought up silly graphics in some programs and games in 
others. Even Microsoft Excel used to have a secret game built in before Redmond 
lost its sense of humor. OpenOffice.org&#8217;s Calc spreadsheet program still 
includes a 1990s-era shoot-&#8217;em-up Space Invaders game. Open the Calc app, 
and in any cell enter: =GAME(&#8221;StarWars&#8221;) Make sure to copy the 
capitalization shown here. Calc will open a StarWars game in which you shoot 
down a fleet of evil alien ships. The explanatory text is in German (the 
original version of OpenOffice.org was written in Germany), but you don&#8217;t 
need to know even English to play the game. Calc has a slightly Teutonic 
attitude toward fun-and-games, however: after you quit the game, you&#8217;ll 
need to shut down Calc and start it up again before you can play a second 
time.</p>
+<p>4. <strong>Turn off the blinking light bulb</strong>. By default, a 
light-bulb icon appears in a tiny window whenever OpenOffice.org does anything 
that isn&#8217;t exactly what you typed - for example, when it replaces two 
hyphens with a dash. It doesn&#8217;t exactly blink, but after the third or 
fourth time it opens, you may think of it as &#8220;that blinking light 
bulb&#8221; (you might use a word other than &#8220;blinking&#8221;). To turn 
it off permanently, go to Tools | Options, and then, in the left-hand pane, 
expand the menu tree by clicking the plus sign next to OpenOffice.org. In the 
General dialog, remove the check mark next to Help Agent.</p>
+<p>5. <strong>Save files in Office formats by default</strong>. By default 
OpenOffice.org saves files in its own format, which most Microsoft Office users 
can&#8217;t open. You can save individual files in Office format by using 
OpenOffice.org&#8217;s File | Save as… menu and selecting a Word format from 
the Save as Type dropdown. But you can tell OpenOffice to save in Office 
formats by default by choosing Tools | Options, then find the Load/Save 
category, and the General subcategory. In the Document Type dropdown, choose 
Text Document, and in the Always Save As dropdown, choose Microsoft Word 
97/2000/XP. Then, in the Document Type dropdown, choose Spreadsheet, and in the 
Always Save As dropdown, choose Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP. These choices will 
create files that can be read by any modern word processor or spreadsheet.</p>
+<p>6. <strong>Automate actions easily</strong>. Many advanced Microsoft Office 
users take advantage of macros that run automatically when you open, print, or 
close a file, but Office&#8217;s interface doesn&#8217;t provide built-in clues 
for creating an AutoClose macro that will run whenever you close a document. 
OpenOffice.org goes Office one better by providing a menu-driven interface that 
lists all the actions that can automatically trigger macros - and these include 
a wider range of actions than the ones that can be automated easily in Office. 
For example, you can create a macro that is triggered every time the number of 
pages in a document increases and that inserts a header with a page number if 
the number goes above, say, two. Other actions that can automatically trigger 
macros include saving a document under a different name and running a mail 
merge. To use this feature, record the macros you want to use, then go to Tools 
| Customize | Events and assign your chosen macro to specific events.</p>
+<p>7. <strong>Fix those single quotes</strong>. By default, OpenOffice.org 
Writer creates good-looking, curly &#8220;typographic&#8221; double-quotation 
marks as you type, but when you type a single quotation mark (or an apostrophe) 
it uses a vertical line, as if you were still using your grandfather&#8217;s 
manual typewriter. Fix this by going to Tools | AutoCorrect…, then go to the 
Custom Quotes tab and, under Single Quotes, add a check mark next to 
Replace.</p>
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href="http://technorati.com/tag/Calc"; rel="tag" target="_self">Calc</a>, <a 
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italovignoli at February 20, 2009 04:09 PM GMT</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
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(for many reasons: work, family, etcetera). Let&#8217;s hope for the better.<br 
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+<item 
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+       <title>Italo Vignoli: Openoffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know You 
Could Do</title>
+       
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/vR7Rr3Hty3E/</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;[From &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D237197,00.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC
 Mag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even though OpenOffice.org - which is, yes, an application suite, not 
just a Web site - can&amp;#8217;t do everything Office can, it can do a lot, 
and it has some of its own tricks that even Office can&amp;#8217;t manage. Here 
are a few that may not be obvious, as well as a few ways to make OpenOffice.org 
less annoying out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;Edit two or more parts of a document at the same 
time&lt;/strong&gt;. Microsoft Word has a nifty split-window feature that lets 
you divide the current window into two panes, so you can edit page 5 of your 
document in the top pane and page 505 in the bottom. To switch from one pane to 
the other, you don&amp;#8217;t have to waste time scrolling back and forth - 
you simply click in the other pane. OpenOffice.org doesn&amp;#8217;t let you 
split a window into two panes, but it offers an even better feature. Click the 
Window menu, then New Window, to open a new window that displays the same 
document you&amp;#8217;re working on. You can open as many windows as you want, 
each at a different place in your document; any change you make in one window 
immediately appears in all others. You can reduce screen clutter by turning off 
toolbars in one or more windows (use View | Toolbars), and you can tile or 
cascade the windows by right-clicking on the OpenOffice.org button on the 
Windows taskbar.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Use OpenOffice.org to open legacy 
documents&lt;/strong&gt;. Years ago, older versions of Microsoft Office could 
open documents created by almost any of the myriad word processors and 
spreadsheet programs that were widely used before Microsoft monopolized the 
market. Recent versions of Office can&amp;#8217;t open many of those older 
formats - including old Microsoft Word versions such as Word 6.0. By contrast, 
OpenOffice.org continues to open Word documents dating back to Version 6.0. 
OpenOffice.org also opens WordPerfect documents, including files created in 
WordPerfect for the Macintosh 3.5 Enhanced, which not even WordPerfect for 
Windows tries to open. By the way, there&amp;#8217;s something confusing about 
OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s claims. The product purports to support at least one 
format that never existed: the list of supported file types in its File | Open 
dialog includes &amp;#8220;Microsoft WinWord 5.0&amp;#8243;, even though there 
never was such a version. Word for Windows skipped from 2.0 to 6.0 in its 
version numbers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;Play a vintage Space Invaders game&lt;/strong&gt;. 
Remember the days of software &amp;#8220;Easter Eggs&amp;#8221;? They were 
not-very-secret keystrokes or mouse clicks that brought up silly graphics in 
some programs and games in others. Even Microsoft Excel used to have a secret 
game built in before Redmond lost its sense of humor. 
OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s Calc spreadsheet program still includes a 1990s-era 
shoot-&amp;#8217;em-up Space Invaders game. Open the Calc app, and in any cell 
enter: =GAME(&amp;#8221;StarWars&amp;#8221;) Make sure to copy the 
capitalization shown here. Calc will open a StarWars game in which you shoot 
down a fleet of evil alien ships. The explanatory text is in German (the 
original version of OpenOffice.org was written in Germany), but you 
don&amp;#8217;t need to know even English to play the game. Calc has a slightly 
Teutonic attitude toward fun-and-games, however: after you quit the game, 
you&amp;#8217;ll need to shut down Calc and start it up again before you can 
play a second time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;Turn off the blinking light bulb&lt;/strong&gt;. By 
default, a light-bulb icon appears in a tiny window whenever OpenOffice.org 
does anything that isn&amp;#8217;t exactly what you typed - for example, when 
it replaces two hyphens with a dash. It doesn&amp;#8217;t exactly blink, but 
after the third or fourth time it opens, you may think of it as &amp;#8220;that 
blinking light bulb&amp;#8221; (you might use a word other than 
&amp;#8220;blinking&amp;#8221;). To turn it off permanently, go to Tools | 
Options, and then, in the left-hand pane, expand the menu tree by clicking the 
plus sign next to OpenOffice.org. In the General dialog, remove the check mark 
next to Help Agent.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;Save files in Office formats by 
default&lt;/strong&gt;. By default OpenOffice.org saves files in its own 
format, which most Microsoft Office users can&amp;#8217;t open. You can save 
individual files in Office format by using OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s File | 
Save as… menu and selecting a Word format from the Save as Type dropdown. But 
you can tell OpenOffice to save in Office formats by default by choosing Tools 
| Options, then find the Load/Save category, and the General subcategory. In 
the Document Type dropdown, choose Text Document, and in the Always Save As 
dropdown, choose Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP. Then, in the Document Type 
dropdown, choose Spreadsheet, and in the Always Save As dropdown, choose 
Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP. These choices will create files that can be read by 
any modern word processor or spreadsheet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;Automate actions easily&lt;/strong&gt;. Many 
advanced Microsoft Office users take advantage of macros that run automatically 
when you open, print, or close a file, but Office&amp;#8217;s interface 
doesn&amp;#8217;t provide built-in clues for creating an AutoClose macro that 
will run whenever you close a document. OpenOffice.org goes Office one better 
by providing a menu-driven interface that lists all the actions that can 
automatically trigger macros - and these include a wider range of actions than 
the ones that can be automated easily in Office. For example, you can create a 
macro that is triggered every time the number of pages in a document increases 
and that inserts a header with a page number if the number goes above, say, 
two. Other actions that can automatically trigger macros include saving a 
document under a different name and running a mail merge. To use this feature, 
record the macros you want to use, then go to Tools | Customize | Events and 
assign your chosen macro to specific events.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;7. &lt;strong&gt;Fix those single quotes&lt;/strong&gt;. By default, 
OpenOffice.org Writer creates good-looking, curly 
&amp;#8220;typographic&amp;#8221; double-quotation marks as you type, but when 
you type a single quotation mark (or an apostrophe) it uses a vertical line, as 
if you were still using your grandfather&amp;#8217;s manual typewriter. Fix 
this by going to Tools | AutoCorrect…, then go to the Custom Quotes tab and, 
under Single Quotes, add a check mark next to Replace.&lt;/p&gt;
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-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m writing this post on my Nokia 
E71 with Wavelog. It&amp;#8217;s the first post of this kind, but I hope that 
the possibility of blogging from mobile will help me in writing more frequently 
than during the last few months (for many reasons: work, family, etcetera). 
Let&amp;#8217;s hope for the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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+       <description>&lt;p&gt;[From &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D237197,00.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;PC
 Mag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Even though OpenOffice.org - which is, yes, an application suite, not 
just a Web site - can&amp;#8217;t do everything Office can, it can do a lot, 
and it has some of its own tricks that even Office can&amp;#8217;t manage. Here 
are a few that may not be obvious, as well as a few ways to make OpenOffice.org 
less annoying out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;Edit two or more parts of a document at the same 
time&lt;/strong&gt;. Microsoft Word has a nifty split-window feature that lets 
you divide the current window into two panes, so you can edit page 5 of your 
document in the top pane and page 505 in the bottom. To switch from one pane to 
the other, you don&amp;#8217;t have to waste time scrolling back and forth - 
you simply click in the other pane. OpenOffice.org doesn&amp;#8217;t let you 
split a window into two panes, but it offers an even better feature. Click the 
Window menu, then New Window, to open a new window that displays the same 
document you&amp;#8217;re working on. You can open as many windows as you want, 
each at a different place in your document; any change you make in one window 
immediately appears in all others. You can reduce screen clutter by turning off 
toolbars in one or more windows (use View | Toolbars), and you can tile or 
cascade the windows by right-clicking on the OpenOffice.org button on the 
Windows taskbar.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Use OpenOffice.org to open legacy 
documents&lt;/strong&gt;. Years ago, older versions of Microsoft Office could 
open documents created by almost any of the myriad word processors and 
spreadsheet programs that were widely used before Microsoft monopolized the 
market. Recent versions of Office can&amp;#8217;t open many of those older 
formats - including old Microsoft Word versions such as Word 6.0. By contrast, 
OpenOffice.org continues to open Word documents dating back to Version 6.0. 
OpenOffice.org also opens WordPerfect documents, including files created in 
WordPerfect for the Macintosh 3.5 Enhanced, which not even WordPerfect for 
Windows tries to open. By the way, there&amp;#8217;s something confusing about 
OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s claims. The product purports to support at least one 
format that never existed: the list of supported file types in its File | Open 
dialog includes &amp;#8220;Microsoft WinWord 5.0&amp;#8243;, even though there 
never was such a version. Word for Windows skipped from 2.0 to 6.0 in its 
version numbers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;Play a vintage Space Invaders game&lt;/strong&gt;. 
Remember the days of software &amp;#8220;Easter Eggs&amp;#8221;? They were 
not-very-secret keystrokes or mouse clicks that brought up silly graphics in 
some programs and games in others. Even Microsoft Excel used to have a secret 
game built in before Redmond lost its sense of humor. 
OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s Calc spreadsheet program still includes a 1990s-era 
shoot-&amp;#8217;em-up Space Invaders game. Open the Calc app, and in any cell 
enter: =GAME(&amp;#8221;StarWars&amp;#8221;) Make sure to copy the 
capitalization shown here. Calc will open a StarWars game in which you shoot 
down a fleet of evil alien ships. The explanatory text is in German (the 
original version of OpenOffice.org was written in Germany), but you 
don&amp;#8217;t need to know even English to play the game. Calc has a slightly 
Teutonic attitude toward fun-and-games, however: after you quit the game, 
you&amp;#8217;ll need to shut down Calc and start it up again before you can 
play a second time.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;Turn off the blinking light bulb&lt;/strong&gt;. By 
default, a light-bulb icon appears in a tiny window whenever OpenOffice.org 
does anything that isn&amp;#8217;t exactly what you typed - for example, when 
it replaces two hyphens with a dash. It doesn&amp;#8217;t exactly blink, but 
after the third or fourth time it opens, you may think of it as &amp;#8220;that 
blinking light bulb&amp;#8221; (you might use a word other than 
&amp;#8220;blinking&amp;#8221;). To turn it off permanently, go to Tools | 
Options, and then, in the left-hand pane, expand the menu tree by clicking the 
plus sign next to OpenOffice.org. In the General dialog, remove the check mark 
next to Help Agent.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;Save files in Office formats by 
default&lt;/strong&gt;. By default OpenOffice.org saves files in its own 
format, which most Microsoft Office users can&amp;#8217;t open. You can save 
individual files in Office format by using OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s File | 
Save as… menu and selecting a Word format from the Save as Type dropdown. But 
you can tell OpenOffice to save in Office formats by default by choosing Tools 
| Options, then find the Load/Save category, and the General subcategory. In 
the Document Type dropdown, choose Text Document, and in the Always Save As 
dropdown, choose Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP. Then, in the Document Type 
dropdown, choose Spreadsheet, and in the Always Save As dropdown, choose 
Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP. These choices will create files that can be read by 
any modern word processor or spreadsheet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;Automate actions easily&lt;/strong&gt;. Many 
advanced Microsoft Office users take advantage of macros that run automatically 
when you open, print, or close a file, but Office&amp;#8217;s interface 
doesn&amp;#8217;t provide built-in clues for creating an AutoClose macro that 
will run whenever you close a document. OpenOffice.org goes Office one better 
by providing a menu-driven interface that lists all the actions that can 
automatically trigger macros - and these include a wider range of actions than 
the ones that can be automated easily in Office. For example, you can create a 
macro that is triggered every time the number of pages in a document increases 
and that inserts a header with a page number if the number goes above, say, 
two. Other actions that can automatically trigger macros include saving a 
document under a different name and running a mail merge. To use this feature, 
record the macros you want to use, then go to Tools | Customize | Events and 
assign your chosen macro to specific events.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;7. &lt;strong&gt;Fix those single quotes&lt;/strong&gt;. By default, 
OpenOffice.org Writer creates good-looking, curly 
&amp;#8220;typographic&amp;#8221; double-quotation marks as you type, but when 
you type a single quotation mark (or an apostrophe) it uses a vertical line, as 
if you were still using your grandfather&amp;#8217;s manual typewriter. Fix 
this by going to Tools | AutoCorrect…, then go to the Custom Quotes tab and, 
under Single Quotes, add a check mark next to Replace.&lt;/p&gt;
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+       <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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+<item>
        <title>GullFOSS: Still have some wishes for Base?</title>
        <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d1987600f0c8e2c6</guid>
        
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   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody is invited to take a look at the 
presentation, it is &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/1/11/Renaissance-status-2009-01-30_wiki.odp&quot;&gt;available
 on the OpenOffice.org Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best,&lt;br 
/&gt;Christian</description>
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possibility of blogging from mobile will help me in writing more frequently 
than during the last few months (for many reasons: work, family, etcetera). 
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