I was watching a video on password-protecting documents in Microsoft Word. Very brief summary – Save file, Then go to File -> Info -> Protect Document. Put in password, Reenter, and that’s it. I was curious if OpenOffice and LibreOffice had any similar features. They […]
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So, I might want to type a list of steps to do something. I type 1. then a paragraph title and I hit Enter to go to the next line to start typing the information in question but instead I get the number 2. which
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I updated OpenOffice today and discovered that the spell checker wasn’t working. I know because I’m used to seeing a sea of red squiggles on my page. So either I just became a champion speller or more than likely there was something wrong with OpenOffice.
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Every now and then, I find myself wanting to make a list of items and put them in alphabetical order. So I typed a list of nonsense for this example (lines of letters). Now I want to put this list in Alphabetical order. The procedure
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Download OpenOffice Download LibreOffice For privacy, you might want to clear out the recent documents list kept in both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Note: When you clear out the list through one app, it clears it out for all the apps as in the Spreadsheet and
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My mother asked me to print up a birthday card with some dogs on it. I thought she said for my nephew, but it turned out to be for his dog. It had to happen. 🙂 I wrote before how I use OpenOffice Writer to
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When I want to type a document in OpenOffice, the first thing I do is to change the default font type and size. The default in OpenOffice is Times New Roman at 12pt. The default in LibreOffice is Liberation Serif at 12pt. My choice is Verdana at
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The procedure for both OpenOffice And LibreOffice is basically the same. I will be mainly using OpenOffice in my example. OpenOffice – https://www.openoffice.org LibreOffice – https://www.libreoffice.org Open the program of your choice and create a new Text document (OpenOffice) or Writer Document (LibreOffice). Then in
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Headers And Page Numbers Headers are “information (such as a page number) printed or placed at the top of each page of a document”, according to Merriam-Webster. A Footer would be placed at the bottom of the page. I have a six-page document in OpenOffice
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First attempts Today is Mother’s Day (at the time I started writing this), and I decided to create and print up a custom Mother’s Day card. Normally, I create cards, whatever the occasion, in a program called Micrografx Windows Draw. I have it installed on
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