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Six plus months with OpenOffice.org

October 16, 2007

Back in February, I decided Office 2007 (with the exception of Outlook) was good, but not great. Soon after, I decided to make the switch to OpenOffice.org entirely. By May, I had switched most of my templates to OOo (you don’t have to do this, but for reasons I have already discussed, the Open Document [...]

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Document longevity

July 6, 2007

Last week on the MSBA’s SoloSmall list serve, I asked for reasons why attorneys do not yet have a paperless law office. To me, one of the most interesting reasons was based on a fear of obsolescence. In other words, will we still be able to read the PDF and word processor documents we create [...]

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Open document format converter for MS Office

June 21, 2007

Since Microsoft insists on ignoring the international open document format, here are the open document conversion add-ins for Microsoft Office.

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A weekend with OpenOffice.org

March 19, 2007

As I mentioned in my recent post about Time59, I had a short-notice brief writing project to do over the weekend. A new client called Wednesday and asked for a summary judgment motion that was due today. Since I have been dabbling in free and open-source software lately, I decided to use OpenOffice.org Writer to [...]

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