Tips & Tricks Archive

Advent Resource #20: Introduction to Statistics

downloadDana Lee Ling is a Professor at the College of Micronesia, who – amongst other academic tasks – is teaching students to use LibreOffice Calc to make statistical calculations. To support his lessons, he has published a

Advent Resource #19: LibreOffice Macros

coverAndrew Pitonyak has been the great master of StarBasic since forever. I still remember copies of his book being distributed at the 2nd OpenOffice Conference in Berlin, in September 2004, the very first time I

Advent Resource #18: Croscore Fonts

apmicrosoftofficefontsA frequently­ overlooked point of lock­-in with Microsoft Office is its default use of proprietary fonts. Contrary to the popular view, fonts are often not freely distributable, and may in fact be covered by restrictive license terms

Advent Resource #17: Renewed QA Wiki Page

qaQuality Assurance wiki page has been reorganized and updated, and provides a number of resources for people willing to commit their time improving the quality of LibreOffice.

As explained on the Get

Advent Resource #16: Two Academic Research about LibreOffice

skovdeJonas Gamalielsson and Björn Lundell, of the University of Skövde in Sweden, have extensively studied the LibreOffice project. They have published two different papers in 2012 and 2014, which represent a very interesting reading.

Gamalielsson J. –

Advent Resource #15: Open Document Format website

odfThe Open Document Format website is managed by the OpenDoc Society. It is another useful resource for ODF advocates and especially for developers, as it offers an overview of