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LibreOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel bury insert rows and columns feature
Spreadsheet applications are not used as much as word processors, but they are used for just as diverse purposes. Grocery shoppers can...
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Apr 27, 20184 min read
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Paragraph settings increase list adjustment capabilities in Word, Writer
Most word processors treat different styles such as headings and titles as paragraphs. Lists are no different. Many of these applications...
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Apr 25, 20188 min read
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Rearrange lists easily in Writer; Edit them with Word’s advanced settings
Lists have many styles, and many word processors have multiple settings for them. Severalof them give you tools and settings to indent...
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Apr 14, 20186 min read
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LibreOffice Writer, Word 2016 offer many list styles for document designers
The addition of lists to word processors have helped writers keep their readers engaged in their articles and other documents. Different...
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Mar 26, 20188 min read
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LibreOffice allows for quicker table modification than Word
Tables are one of the most integral parts of a document. Common advice is to plan a table, so you know how many columns and rows you...
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Mar 19, 201811 min read
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LibreOffice makes it easy for programmers by allowing macros to be written in four languages
The best macros are not recorded through the user interface of an application. They are hard coded through the application’s coding...
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Mar 5, 20188 min read
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LibreOffice more flexible than Microsoft Office for macros
A macro is an instruction into a set of instructions to perform a particular task. There are actually two ways to create macros in both...
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Feb 26, 20186 min read
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LibreOffice can compete with Microsoft Office’s new collaborative features
People have been working together on documents generated by office suite applications for decades now. One person would create the...
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Feb 19, 20186 min read
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LibreOffice, NeoOffice: two great suites for your application toolbox
When OpenOffice was first released it was available for Linux distros and Windows natively, but it ran on Mac under Unix. A company...
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Feb 10, 20187 min read
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LibreOffice, Google Drive partner through Web browsers
In the last blog entry, I talked extensively about connecting to your Google Drive account directly through LibreOffice and using the...
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Feb 4, 20187 min read
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LibreOffice, Google Drive: two great companions for collaborating on documents
Office suites are almost as old as the personal computer, and like the personal computer, they have evolved over the decades. Modern...
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Jan 28, 20188 min read
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Consistency helps LibreOffice Writer power users more than Word’s ribbon helps its users
User interfaces for office applications have evolved over the past few decades. Microsoft has transitioned its popular office...
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May 31, 20178 min read
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Easily make LibreOffice, Office 2016 more worldly by adding languages
The desktop computer was an American invention, but four decades after the first ones graced offices and households, they are now in just...
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Apr 21, 20177 min read
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Insert and play video in Office, LibreOffice apps
Creating videos has become easier for the average person with smartphones and inexpensive digital cameras. There are also many free an...
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Apr 11, 20176 min read
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LibreOffice, Microsoft Office can work together when it comes to graphics
Photographs and graphics have been used in text documents since desktops started having GUI interfaces in the early to mid 1980s. Users...
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Apr 3, 20174 min read
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LibreOffice can revive old documents from graveyard
One key difference between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office are the organizations behind them. Office is owned by one of the largest...
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Mar 27, 20173 min read
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LibreOffice integrates in ways Microsoft Office doesn’t
The previous article has a link to a Web page that compares LibreOffice to Microsoft Office 2016. One of the items in the Website’s table...
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Mar 13, 20174 min read
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New blog compares Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, and Google Drive
One of OS-College’s key focuses is on applications that run equally well on multiple operating systems. They have the same features and...
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Mar 5, 20177 min read
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