Open Office
A good source for open office help can be found at this
blog.
Major benefits of using Open Office
- platform independent
- compressed file size
- similar interface as other office suites
- handles other documents types
- free
Writer
- Procedure for opening and saving Microsoft Office documents with Open Office
- Tools->Options...
- Load/Save->General
- Default file format
- Autorecovery and format warnings
Calc
- Printing column headers on multiple pages
- Format->Print Ranges->Edit...
- Rows to repeat = $1
- Setting up page layout (Grid, Formulas, Scaling)
- Format->Page...
- Sheet