n00b Open Office Writer: 2 questions 1. Page styles, they are driving me insane. I have a long doc. The first page is "first page" style, after that are "default" styles. I want, after a number of default pages, to set up a few landscaped pages. I am starting to cry, every time I...

How can I change the icons in the title bar for OpenOffice's Writer, Calc, and Presentation? I'm looking to fix this pixelated icon issue, so even if I can just change the icon on ObjectDock I'd be happy. Hell, at this point I'd be happy if I have to change it so that all OpenOffice programs I've tr...

Exmoron writes "I work at a small reading mash (5,500 students) and am in a site to potentially impress future system system software real wages decisions. I use a number of FOSS solutions at home (OpenOffice.org, Zotero, GIMP, VirtualBox). My university, on the other hand, is a Microsoft and propri...

I use LaTeX primarily for all of my printed document preparation, but I have to teach people how to write in Word/OpenOffice Writer, and so it still is interesting to me to find out how to do new things. I've wondered how to make non-breaking spaces (NBSP) in Word for a long time, but I didn't force...

I should probably preface this post by saying I’m far from a windows expert.  I am quite comfortable within XP but don’t really have much experience in Vista outside of the few occasions I’ve launched it in VMware to flash a phone.  I use XP daily for work, but basically just tolerat...

we’ve received several copies of this instructive diagram, which the helpful illustrators of graph jam have made available to coffee watchdogs the world over. seeing people print their passive-aggressive flow charts off the internet makes our resident nerd, eric, sentimental for simpler times....

Despite what I said yesterday about only 1% of users actually using Google Docs, it seems that this isn’t really a deterrent to other pundits thinking that perhaps Microsoft has something to worry about. The fact that Microsoft has been talking about releasing the next version of Office for oh...

I’ve spent a lot of time poking around for interesting tips and tidbits to share with you here, and some of it makes me roll my eyes and exclaim at my computer that something “isn’t news!!” but this little statistic made me sit up and take notice. Now, I love google docs. I&#...

One of the first posts I wrote as part of the MakeUseOf team was “10 Essential Mac Apps To Install After A Reformat“. That was way back in March, when I was still innocent, young and naïve. The title of the article was technically inaccurate; the introduction was misleading and a lot of...

Envelopes can be problematic. Yes. This is primarily because envelopes are not Letter or Legal. Each printer has its own approach to printing, and you'll need to do a little experimenting. But you can do it. The Envelopes category and the Mail Merge catogory of my blog each has various approaches. B...