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OpenOffice Vs MS Office: Battle Between Free & Paid
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Rakesh Sharma
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Getting a Taste of OpenOffice 2.4
Open Office is now more user friendly for home and office users. To install
this productivity suit on a Windows system you need to have Windows 98 or above,
a Pentium PC with 64 MB RAM and 250 MB free hard disk space. In Linux, the
hardware specification is same as Windows, but you have to install Glibc 2.2 or
higher version and X Server. Java is required for both Linux and Windows; the
minimum version of Java to be installed is 1.3.1.
Open Office 2.4 has now support to export documents to new PDF/A-1 format. In
Impress, you can insert background images. However, you can also change the
yy-mm-dd date format to mm/dd/yyyy format using the 'Find and Replace' box.
Installation of this suite is easy. In this hands on, we show you how to
implement some of the new features of OO 2.4.
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| Create an XY scatter chart from Insert >
Chart option, select 'XY (Scatter)' option from the 'Choose a chart type'
chart option, and click on 'Finish' |
Once a chart is created, click on the
spreadsheet, double click on the chart image, navigate to Insert >
Statistics option. Now
select any regression curve from the 'Regression curve' option |
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| You can also choose to show standard
deviation from the 'Error category' list. After selecting all options, click
on the 'OK' button to create the regression curve |
Create a bar chart; select the sample data
on the sheet and navigate to Insert > Chart option and then select chart
type as bar chart |
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| Double click on the chart, navigate to
'Format > Axis option, and then select 'X-Axis' (or Y Axis). A window will
appear, choose the style you want and click on 'OK' |
Again navigate to the 'Format > Axis option
and go to the scale' tab. Check the 'Reverse direction' option and click on
the 'OK' button |
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| To change the yy-mm-dd date format to mm/dd/yyyy
open the 'Find and Replace' box from Find and Replace, and write exactly the
same as shown in the screenshot above |
Open Office 2.4 has now support to export
documents to new PDF/A-1 format. Go to File > Export to PDF, check the
'PDF/A-1' checkbox and click on the 'Export' button |
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| To convert CSV to columns, select the CSV
column, and navigate to Data > Text to columns option. Check the 'Comma
check box' in 'Separated by' option and click on 'OK' |
In Impress, you can insert background
images. Right click on the slide you want to insert on, select Slide > Set
Background Picture, choose the image and click on 'OK' button |
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