Countdown to OpenOffice 3.2 – Writer

By Bob McDonald on November 4, 2009

Note: This is the second in a multi-part series on OpenOffice Wednesday that will focus on some of the new and upgraded features that will appear in OpenOffice.org 3.2.

Part One – The Countdown Begins

First, a little housekeeping. As we mentioned at the start of the 128px-OOoWriter.svgCountdown, OpenOffice.org 3.2 will be publicly available sometime in December. According to the OOo Wiki page, that date will be December 14, 2009. That should give us plenty of time to get through all the OOo components.

This week, of course, we start with the Writer program, which, of course, is the OpenOffice counterpart to Microsoft Word.
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OpenOffice Wednesday – Start at the Beginning: The Table of Contents

By Bob McDonald on October 7, 2009

Whether you are an author, an editor or just someone who’s company needs to have a proposal set up, it is practically a given that your document will need a table of contents.

However, you may run into one issue. If you set up a Table of Contents using Microsoft Word, then you open the same document up in OpenOffice.org Writer, you will find that your TOC is gone. Understandably, this could be very frustrating and can really through you for a loop!

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