Freitag März 21, 2008
"Creating a Contacts Database in OpenOffice"
"Last week we learned how to make pages of labels, business cards, and form letters using OpenOffice Writer and Base. The steps for setting up any mail-merge document in OpenOffice are easy; the one potentially gnarly bit is creating your contacts database in the first place. Your contacts list must be in Base, which is a bit of a pain. But the good news is Base can import data from most other databases, spreadsheets, text-delimited files, and email address books."
Found here.
( Mrz 21 2008, 06:37:27 AM CET )
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Donnerstag März 20, 2008
sage Classic Line works with OpenOffice.org
Cool! I just learned that the German sage Classic Line, a popular ERP solution for SMB's, works with OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org was even featured in one issue of their user magazine. It's very encouraging to see more an more ISV's support OpenOffice.org and ODF. With about one million downloads per week, OpenOffice.org simply can't be ignored any longer.
( Mrz 20 2008, 12:00:29 PM CET )
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Mittwoch März 19, 2008
"MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org"
"The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), today officially adopts a policy to migrate to the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite. This is in line with the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Master Plan, which calls for government agencies to reduce costs, increase freedom of choice and interoperability. From April 1st, MAMPU will start adopting the OpenDocument Format (ODF), standard for all new documents created."
The full article can be found here. Very cool!
( Mrz 19 2008, 06:21:58 PM CET )
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Per-incident support available for OpenOffice.org
If you are really stuck with a terrible problem, and if you are unlucky and don't find the right answers to your problem in the public user forums, you might want to try out the new per-incident support for OpenOffice.org.
( Mrz 19 2008, 06:18:39 PM CET )
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Writing long documents with OpenOffice.org
I recently had an email exchange with students about writing a thesis using OpenOffice.org. It became apparent from that email thread that many people are still not aware of the master document feature in OpenOffice.org. In case you also don't know how to use the master document feature, you should check out one or all of the following links:
The other area where both more tools and documentation are needed is the area of bibliographic and reference management tools. Here is a list of different applications that have varying support for OpenOffice.org and ODF:
If any of these vendors or projects don't yet provide the level of integration that you need, either use the feedback forms to submit your feature requests or contribute to the projects!
( Mrz 19 2008, 06:14:36 PM CET )
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Screenshots of OpenOffice.org 3.0 features
This article shows screenshots of a number of features that will be new in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The article already got slashdotted!
( Mrz 19 2008, 05:53:37 PM CET )
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Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!
( Mrz 19 2008, 05:50:30 PM CET )
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Freitag März 14, 2008
Attorney Solution with OpenOffice.org Support
I was just made aware of this German attorney solution which supports OpenOffice.org in addition to Microsoft Office. The software is multi-platform. So far the software is only available in German, but I guess that could change based on customer demand.
( Mrz 14 2008, 06:06:07 PM CET )
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Donnerstag März 13, 2008
OpenOffice.org Plugin for Alfresco
In case you're an Alfresco and OpenOffice.org user and are looking for a tighter integration between the two, you might want to check out the "OpenOffice.org Plugin for Alfresco".
( Mrz 13 2008, 06:22:23 PM CET )
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More Open Source at the European Commission
I was just made aware of the article "EU plans more use of open source". Here is a short quote:
"The commission will soon release a "strategy paper" on using more open-source software, says Valerie Rampi, spokeswoman for Siim Kallas, the European commissioner responsible for administrative affairs.
The paper will say open-source software should be pursued, provided it does not cost more and is in the best interests of European citizens, she says."
Very cool!
( Mrz 13 2008, 12:19:11 PM CET )
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Sonntag März 09, 2008
Yet another ISV supporting OpenOffice.org
"We have the connection between comfortable word processing and calculation in Office Suites such as Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org and the communication, coordination and knowledge management platform IBM Lotus Notes/Domino."
Found here.
( Mrz 09 2008, 05:41:52 AM CET )
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Freitag März 07, 2008
OpenIndexer 3.0 Beta is out
From the OpenIndexer website:
"OI3 allows to search the complete textual content of the ODF file, inclusive its meta data. Also PDF files containing text can be rapidly found with the OI3 fulltext search.
New supported file formats
OI3 expands its fulltext search to HTML, MHT, XML, EML, TXT and CSV files. Also Fax/TIF files can be searched in fulltext mode. As recognition language can be set english, german, french, italian, spanish and portughese."
( Mrz 07 2008, 11:07:59 PM CET )
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mOOo - mobile OpenOffice.org
mOOo is an interesting java.net project. The description says: "The objective of the Project is to create a set of tools that make the user able to create/update ODF documents in mobile devices such as cell phones and PDA's and also interact with the OpenOffice.org suite through these devices."
( Mrz 07 2008, 10:16:28 AM CET )
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Donnerstag März 06, 2008
German county adopts OpenOffice.org
According to this German article, the German county "Friesland" is adoption open source including OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org will be installed on the majority of the client systems.
( Mrz 06 2008, 04:03:52 PM CET )
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Laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed becoming popular
As can be read here and here, laptops and desktop computers with Linux and OpenOffice.org are becoming popular. Nice!
( Mrz 06 2008, 04:01:07 PM CET )
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