Because, despite my repeated advice of migrating from Word (still expensive at Microsoft) to OpenOffice (freely downloadable and as powerful as MS-Word), you may still be using Word, I am giving you here the business letter template that I offered yesterday for OpenOffice, but adapted to Microsoft Word. With still the same advantages: There is…
Category: Word processor
OpenOffice tip #1: Letter template
Nearly all users of a word processor have been faced with this minor annoyance of writing a passable commercial-like letter. But, worse, at the time of filling the envelope, you have to fight with a sheet of paper that would not accept to align itself with the address window of the envelope. Today, I am…
No PDF for MS-Office
Adobe is trying hard to avoid having Microsoft include a PDF generator in its upcoming Microsoft Office newest desktop suite. They decided that this would be too much a menace against their business model and so told Microsoft that they would fight up to a judge if they tried to put PDF in MS-Office. In…
OpenOffice first virus
One of the arguments pushed forward by the proponents of OpenOffice, the free open source desktop suite (replacement for Ms-Office) has long been the total lack of security issues. I never did use it, while I favor strongly OpenOffice and I appreciate this feature, because I felt that it was only linked to the more…
Writing Adobe PDF documents
Even if I am still a continuous partisan of writing PDF files directly from OpenOffice (my prefered free replacement for Microsoft Office), I found a web page with information about how to produce directly PDF files from applications which do not know how to make them (contrary to the native feature of OpenOffice). Loose wire.
Free download of Word
Since this question is regularly asked here in the recent weeks, I decided to answer directly. Easier than pirating Microsoft Word, nicer, faster than finding a hacked warez version without a virus, a Trojan horse, you just have to go to OpenOffice. I can’t repeat it enough: Forget Microsoft Office, don’t try to copy this…
Vista draws Office into the whirlwind
After announcing by Microsoft that Vista wold not be available before October 2007 (and, even then only for big customers; Christmas buys are in a bad shape for you and me), we learn that Microsoft Office 2007 will suffer the same fate. Push it a little more and we will have to rename it Microsoft…
OpenOffice logo
Surprisingly, a large number of people come right to my own web site just to collect the OpenOffice logo. I am sure that this is only a fluke, but I’d like to help them finding what they want. If you need a copy of those logos for your web site, please, do not directly include…