Wow, I got some response to my article last week A Free Alternative to Microsoft Excel and Word. I wrote about the Microsoft Office alternative that I have used for years, and how it has changed ownership from Sun Microsystems to Oracle Corporation (who bought Sun) to the Apache Software Foundation. I also commented about [...]
A Free Alternative to Microsoft Excel and Word
Oh, not again…someone sent you a file that needs Microsoft Word to open it, or perhaps Excel. That’s often the case when you are an officer in a club. Last year’s secretary sends the newly elected secretary a spreadsheet of the members and their addresses — with the file done by Microsoft Excel. Or, perhaps [...]
PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look
PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look Program: PDF Converter Professional 7.0
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Emailing Directly From OpenOffice
Subscriber Keith wrote with question about backing up his Outlook data and configuration: Hey Terry, I’m a new recipient of your newsletter and I think it’s a great service you’re providing. I do have a question; I moved to Win7 when first available from XP so quite a few things changed when I did. I’m [...]
Removing Carriage Returns in OpenOffice Documents
Recently I received an email from a site visitor to TerrysComputerTips.com. He had solved a problem with the help of my article on removing carriage returns (formfeeds, linefeeds, line breaks, returns, whatever you want to call them) from an OpenOffice document, so he wanted to say "Thank you." Nathan wrote: Thanks a lot for the [...]
HOWTO: Using Excel – How To Use Absolute Addressing
Microsoft Excel, like most spreadsheets, has a really convenient feature. When you copy any given cell into another cell, Excel will automatically adjust the formula references to other cells so refer to cells in the same relative position. First, a look at Relative Addressing In the example below, I copied the formula in cell C2 [...]
Removing Carriage Returns — Solved!
Website visitor, and now, new subscriber Phan Thu wrote: 13 Sep 08 Hi Terry: This isn’t a question but a brief but heartfelt note to THANK you. I had had trouble with LINE BREAKS in both MS Word and OO.o Writer. Google pointed me to your wonderful web site and since yesterday, thanks to your [...]
Time for an Excel Time Trick
One of the things that I’ve been doing lately with my local computer club is to maintain its calendar of events on its web site for the workshops, classes and special interest group meetings. For an all-volunteer organization, we have a lot of fun and share a lot of knowledge in our 40-60 educational events [...]
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