Spell Check your Ancient Greek in OpenOffice

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Are you using Unicode to type in ancient Greek (if not, follow this guide)? Do your prefer OpenOffice to Microsoft Office? Well today is the day where it all pays off. There is only one Word Processor in the world that spell-checks ancient Greek, and that’s OpenOffice. You can set it up by [...]

Next Version of MS Office Will Support OpenOffice Files

Some good news from Microsoft: Office 14 and the next Service Pack for Office 2007 will natively support the OpenDocument format (ODF) used by such software as OpenOffice.org and Google Docs. This open-source format has been adopted as a standard by recognized computing organizations and governments worldwide, succeededing to gain support in many areas that [...]

Saving Money with Open Source Software

The times, they are a changing. One interesting, and in my opinion welcome, change is a new push by businesses and institutions to move to Open Source Software. Aside from the fact that most open source software is free, there are a whole host of other advantages worth considering. Two that stand out: (1) interpolability [...]

Setting Up Zotero: Link by Link

The following is a set of links that will be useful for those trying to set up Zotero on their computers. (Not sure what Zotero is or why you would want it? Check out their site, and don’t miss the demo video).
Initial Setup

Firefox Web Browser. Zotero runs as a plugin within this excellent browser.
The Zotero [...]

Using OpenOffice as an Outliner

In addition to its basic word processing power, OpenOffice has fairly robust outling features. Check out a guide on how to use it here. This works very nicely in conjunction with the previously mentioned guide to the navigation panel.

Using OpenOffice.org as a 2-pane outliner

If you use OpenOffice.org you may find this guide helpful, especially if you are a frequent note-taker or outliner (like myself; I how I love a good outline). It tells you how to use the built-in OpenOffice navigator and Heading styles to structure and easily manipulate your documents.
If anybody knows of other good outline solutions, [...]

How to Type in Greek Part IV: Polytonic Greek, Linux Edition (Ubuntu)

The “How to Type in Greek” series of posts is designed to help you set-up your computer to type Ancient (Polytonic) Greek using a Unicode Font. Be sure to check out Part I (on Unicode), II (on setting up Windows), and III (on recommended Fonts).
Introduction
This post is designed to show Linux users how to set-up [...]

Import and Edit PDFs with OpenOffice

One handy OpenOffice extension out there is Sun’s PDF Import Extension. Their description:
The PDF Import Extension allows modifying existing PDF files for which the original source files do not exist anymore. PDF documents are imported in Draw and Impress to preserve the layout and to allow basic editing. It is the perfect solution for changing [...]

Zotero 1.5 and OpenOffice 3.0: Getting it all to Work

Those of you who have upgrade to Zotero 1.5 (still in Beta) and/or OpenOffice 3.0 may have noticed some problems with integration. Zotero has a plugin for OpenOffice and MS Word that integrates your Bibliography with your documents, but the default plugin does not work with OpenOffice.
That problem has been fixed: download the new [...]

Some Extensions for OpenOffice.org

Here are a handful of handy extensions for the previously mentioned OpenOffice.org, a free suite of office products similar to Microsoft Office.