Office Tweaks

May 31st, 2008

OOoLatex For Your OpenOffice

Yet another OpenOffice.org extension for you to try:
OOoLatex is a set marcos designed to provide latex support into OpenOffice. The extension contains two mains modules allowing to insert equations as emf or png images, the latex code is saved into the image attribute allowing reedition while simpler equations are expanded into symbol characters and then […]

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May 29th, 2008

OpenDocument To DAISY Format

If you are using OpenDocuments, you can turn your text into audio formats. Try using this OpenOffice.org extension to convert your text to DAISY DBT Format. Digital Talking Book (DBT) is a multimedia representation of a print publication. In both instances the rendering of the audio is in human voice.

This extension allow users to export […]

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September 19th, 2007

IBM Lotus Symphony

Another free office suite software for you guys. Yesterday, IBM announced a new line of product which will give you the power to create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations and it is called the IBM Lotus Symphony.
Reading this tech buzz from their site, I immediately downloaded the software and gave it a try. The […]

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February 25th, 2007

Google Office Premium

Google has recently released a premium version of their Google Apps functionality. The new version provides additional storage capabilities as the main difference between the free version, along with their not being ads on the paid for service. The cost of the service is $50/yr per employee using the application.
Today, it introduces Google Apps Premium […]

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January 14th, 2007

What’s the .ODT all about

Ever wonder what makes up all the details of the OpenOffice file format of the .odt? How does it compare to the .doc?
3monkeys >> OpenOffice .ODT Opened Up
Tags: .odt-format, 3monkeys, OpenOffice

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June 7th, 2006

More Info on PDF in Office (or the lack of)

Vincent shares some information on WindowsVistaWeblog about the lack of Adobe PDF support in Office.
Because of the recent lawsuit threats from Adobe, Microsoft has announced that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity suite and Windows Vista. This […]

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June 1st, 2006

OpenOffice & StarOffice Get Infected

Looks like Microsoft isn’t the only virus target in town. Here’s the report from a c/net News.com article. The virus can actually infect both OpenOffice and StarOffice.
“Stardust is a macro virus written for StarOffice, the first one I’ve seen,” the researcher wrote. “Macro viruses usually infect MS Office applications.”
The good news is (if there is […]

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