I don’t know why, but, occasionally, people may have to do minimal or even considerable statistical calculations using Calc, the OpenOffice.org’s spreadsheet part of the Office Productivity Suite. Although, I wouldn’t recommend doing so since there are other, better software packages to complete simple and complex statistical analyses, such as R, a statistical...
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Image via Wikipedia <Update> Soon after I hit the PUBLISH button, I received via email, the OpenOffice.org newsletter, with an extensive list of openoffice.org related blogs.</Update> Although there is an abundance of information available at the official openoffice.org site regarding the usability and how to make openoffice.org, the free open productivity suite, work better for your...
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After a long period of inactivity, we are back in force with some changes, cosmetic and content-related ones. First, a new look for this blog.  The 3-column digg-like seems better than the more austere two-column (one sidebar) contempt used before.  The picture above is from the town of Kalamata and was taken in late April...
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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...
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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...
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