Open Office: A Horse of a Different Source – Amanda Mc Pherson, Vice President of Marketing and Developer Programs at the Linux Foundation,on the the health of open source office productivity software Open Office. The importance of friends – Some graphics of a very interesting of the results of the last User survey. Report: Companies use Word out of habit, not necessity – Sheri McLeish, Forrester analyst, suggests that businesses may still be using Word because it is familiar to users or because they have a legacy investment in the application, not because it is the best option. OpenOffice Password Recovery – Recover passwords and remove all types of document protection for a fee. A 552-page manual for $20, or download the PDF file for free at the OOo Documentation Project site.įonts for OpenOffice – Add more fonts to your suite for a fee. OpenOffice includes OpenSymbol, DejaVu, the Liberation fonts (from 2.4 to 3.3) and the Gentium fonts (since 3.2).
3.0 Writer Guide Available – The OOoAuthors project has recently released the 3 Writer Guide at. 's math editor is sufficient for math homework and casual math use, but if you are writing a scholarly paper, TeX is the de facto Writer Guide, fonts and tools, User Surveys, Reports and Comments: links, 17-01-2009 math formulas can similarly be added to other document types including as Impress (like PowerPoint) and Draw (somewhat like Visio). If you are satisfied and wish to exit the formula editor, double click on any blank area of the Writer document. Wait about one second for the matrix to update in the Writer window. The first time you try to draw this matrix, you may try to enter this math formula: A = Here is a basic 2x2 matrix A with entries A 11=a, A 12=b, A 21=c, and A 22=d: The categories include:Īt the bottom of the elements dialog are the math element entries: click an entry to insert it into the editor. Then, to view the entries in the category, click on the category icon. To get orientated, glance at the elements dialog:Īt the top of the elements dialog, there are categories of math elements: to view the name of the category, hover the mouse cursor over the category icon. This starts the formula editor.Īt first glance, the formula editor can be confusing. Say you are taking Linear Algebra or doing other mathematics that requires matrices: here is how to easily write a matrix in the free-of-charge, open source, cross-platform, Writer.Īfter installing and starting Writer (which is the equivalent of Microsoft Word), click Insert - Object - Formula. You don't need to blow money on Microsoft Word to write nice math notation.
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