Here I have amassed a list of tips and tricks I have come across while working with Open Office. Most of them have been inspired by questions that show up often in the OOo users list. It is a FAQ of sorts. OOo has its own, much more comprehensive FAQ as well. It can be found at http://user-faq.openoffice.org/.

There are many good places to find answers to OOo problems. I have summarized a list of options on my Finding OOo Answers page.

General

File Format
More Recent Files
Changing File Associations
Anchoring Graphics
GPL & LGPL
Using Stand Along OOo Components
Import/Export File Formats
Macro
Opening "Windows" Documents in Open Office
OOo Knowledgebase FAQ
New OOo 2.0 File Format
Setting PDF Export Options
Recovering data from an OOo file
OOo on the Mac
Release of OOo 2.0

Writer

Endnotes
Split Window in Writer
Paragraph Length
Grammar Checkers & OOo
What is AutoComplete?
Using Label Templates in Writer
Setting a page count as page -1
Setting an image as a watermark
Do not spellcheck a specific style

Calc

Adding an Average Line to a Bar Graph
Editing a Cell from the Command Line
Relative Addressing of Charts in Calc
Creating a Form From a .pdf file in Calc
Removing Calc Background Image
Leading Zeroes in OOo Calc
Deleting Cells in Calc
Recalculate vs. Recalculate Hard

Website & Mailing Lists

Vote for an Issue
Register at OpenOffice.org
Filing an issue with OpenOffice.org's IssueZilla
Using Filters to identify Unsubscribed Users for OOo Mailing Lists

Base

Getting to know OOo Base

Draw

Turn an Image Into a Watermark

For questions please contact peschtra@openoffice.peschtra.com.

Last Edited 21 June 2006