Basics of Computer and Information Technology

I have featured OpenOffice.org on this blog a few times in the past. It is a free office suite featuring a word processor, a spreadsheet pr...

In order to create a launcher for a particular OpenOffice application, or if you wish to run one from a terminal in Linux , you will need t...

When copying charts into a word processor, whether in Microsoft Office from Excel to Word or in openoffice.org from Calc to Writer , the so...

In the last post I demonstrated how to easily enter lists of numbers, days of the week and months of the year in Excel and Calc (the OpenOf...

Excel spreadsheets often have a column or a row of incremental data. That is, information in the form of a list of numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, etc ...

Writer , the word processor in OpenOffice.org , uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts as MS Word . The shortcuts for selecting, editing a...

As I mentioned in a recent post , I have recently switched to a Linux distribution as my operating system of choice. Many other users may b...