Open Office

Word Processing Form Trick

Welcome to 2010! One of my goals is to get back into blogging a bit more. With that in mind here is my first post of the new year. Recently I have been filling out a lot of forms and I am just sick and tired of forms that are formatted so poorly! As a heads up, I will be doing a webinar in the near future on how to properly format word processed documents so they look good in almost any word processor.

Why not OpenOffice?

During the last few weeks I have had a number of conversations with various individuals regarding the use of open source applications in both schools and in the business place. Let's take OpenOffice as an example.

Open Office: Making the Transition

This post contains links to the files that I used in my "Open Office: Making the Transition" presentation at the 2008 K12 Open Minds Conference.  This presentation was given on Saturday, September 27th from 11:00 AM until 12:00 PM.  If you have any questions about what I said or want some clarification please feel free to leave a comment on this blog post.

Presentation as a PDF