Taming OpenOffice.org

Simon Phipps encourages you to use this logo to signify a geek-with-a-vote-and-a-clue. The source file and the bitmap are both available, or you can buy t-shirts and other items from CafePress.

I haven’t tried the AuthorSupportTool extension, but it sounds interesting. AST has its own template wizard for academic and scientific papers, a bibliographic and reference tool, an outliner, a progress tracker, and a backup tool.

I couldn’t find it in the official extensions repository, but it is available from SourceForge and installs just like any other extension.

EDIT: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/AST/

OpenOffice.org’s Project Renaissance is asking users to them them about any default settings that you change first thing when you install a new version of OOo, especially if they are in Impress, because the suggestions for default settings in the presentation application need to be made by the end of April. Please share what they are and why the change makes your life much easier. (Check the list on the wiki page to see if your favourite is already there and add your name if you wish.)

Better Default Settings, Anyone? (Blog entry)

Wiki page

Please don’t send your suggestions here. Send them to OpenOffice.org by using the wiki page. I am just the messenger.

The second edition of the OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide (updated for OOo V3.2) was published in March. PDFs of the full book and the individual chapters are on the Documentation wiki.

The printed edition of the book is available at low cost from Lulu.com.