Tag Archives: Open Office

Top 10 Things You Must do if You’re Going to Work at Home: Part Two

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This started out as one blog, but got to be way too long. For part one, click here. Back up your computer every week ~ Need I say more? Buy Office from Microsoft or download Open Office ~ Although I love Open Office, I will the first one to admit that it can’t do everything that Word can, and some companies require you to use Word, not OO. If you are short on cash, download OO, and then buy the the Office Suite when you have the money. It may take a while to save up–that baby is expensive!!! Download … Continue reading →

Active Words: Opening Websites and Documents

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If you haven’t heard of Active Words before, I suggest starting at the beginning and reading the first blogs, here. AW has another function that I use constantly: Opening up a website that I go to regularly, without having to open another tab in my browser and then bring up my list of bookmarks with the website listed in it. With AW, all I have to do is type in the word or letter I assigned it in AW (Google, for example, has the letter “g” assigned to it) and then hit the F11 key. No matter where I’m at, … Continue reading →

Active Words: Automatic vs Manual Correcting

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In my last blog, I talked about Active Word’s ability to fix all of the typing errors you make, without you having to do anything but enter the information into AW one time (about a 20 second process.) When you enter these corrections into AW, it allows you to choose whether the corrections will be done automatically (“acess” becomes “access” without you doing anything) or letting you hit a “hot key” when you want the correction to be done. Knowing whether you want the correction to be done automatically or manually is about 70% of mastering AW. There are very … Continue reading →

Open Office: Your New Best Friend

If you are anything like I was two years ago, I’m sure you’re scratching your head, wondering just what the heck I’m talking about. What on earth is Open Office? Open Office (or OO) is fantastic project that has been around for quite some time. It is a program that gives you for free what Microsoft charges you big bucks for: A word processing program (like Word), a spreadsheet (like Excel), a database (like Access), etc. It was developed because the programmers believed that everyone should be able to have access to these basic programs, whether you can afford outrageous … Continue reading →