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microsoft ofice will not support older microsoft office formats

January 4, 2008
By ikd
microsoft ofice will not support older microsoft office formats

The article in Wired was pretty much clear: Microsoft OFfice 2003 service pack 3 will drop support for older microsoft office formats.  In other words, when the service pack 3 is installed, older files such as powerpoint before office 97, lotus and quattro files, word and excel files will not open by default and...
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xlsx & openoffice

November 11, 2007
By ikd
xlsx & openoffice

In an earlier posting, I wrote about a filter to open docx files in open office. Unfortunately, this is half the story in this world of digital, paperless office. What happens in the case of Excel 2007 files? Now, these files have an extension of xlsx. Note the slight difference from the typical xls...
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xlsx & openoffice

November 11, 2007
By ikd
xlsx & openoffice

In an earlier posting, I wrote about a filter to open docx files in open office. Unfortunately, this is half the story in this world of digital, paperless office. What happens in the case of Excel 2007 files? Now, these files have an extension of xlsx. Note the slight difference from the typical xls...
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writertools

July 25, 2007
By ikd
writertools

If you use OpenOffice Writer a lot then you may find writertools very helpful. Writertools are a set of extensions for the Writer part of OpenOffice.org.  Released under GPL 2.0, they add another menu, appropriately named Writer’s Tools, between the original Tools and Window menus (photo below). You may have to trick writer tools...
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odf & docx in OpenOffice

July 20, 2007
By ikd
odf & docx in OpenOffice

Image via Wikipedia Unless you have been cast away in some remote island or hiding under some rock or in some cave (btw, of all three choices, the first one does not seem that bad in my opinion), the battle between open document format promoted by several open source supporters and the ooxml format...
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odf & docx in OpenOffice

July 20, 2007
By ikd
odf & docx in OpenOffice

Image via Wikipedia Unless you have been cast away in some remote island or hiding under some rock or in some cave (btw, of all three choices, the first one does not seem that bad in my opinion), the battle between open document format promoted by several open source supporters and the ooxml format...
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page numbering trick in openoffice

October 5, 2006
By ikd
page numbering trick in openoffice

Here is a quick way to place the number of the page in a different position in the header or footer of the page. Say, we want to have the page number in the footer and on the right side of the page for odd-numbered pages and on the left side of the page...
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