If you are a professional, then you know how much of file processing you need in a day of work. You have to save the invoices in a folder, sort them and later print them for accounting purposes. You may even want to create a cloud backup of your files. All these file processing, if Read More …
There are two leading Microsoft Office alternatives – Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Security researcher Alex Inführ has found that both of them have a vulnerability related to the execution of Python scripts. A maliciously designed Open Document Text (ODT) file can result in remote code execution of Python scripts from any location. Since both of Read More …
For many many years Microsoft Office ruled the world as the most popular office software suite. But things started to change in early 2000s as OpenOffice was released as a successful alternative to Microsoft Office. Initially popular among the Linux users, OpenOffice has now become very popular with the Windows and MacOS users as well. Read More …
Microsoft Document files can be saved in many formats – the very old .doc file format or the new XML based .docx file format. For creating these files you need either the expensive Microsoft Office suite, or open-source alternatives like LibreOffice or OpenOffice. But when it comes to just viewing the Microsoft Word documents, you Read More …
Presentations are a part of everyday work life for many of us. Even as a student, you may have to prepare a presentation for your school report or project. And when it comes to presentation or slide-show software we all quickly think of Microsoft PowerPoint but there are many better free alternatives. For example, ActivePresenter Read More …
Microsoft’s PowerPoint has become the standard of presenting reports, plans, slideshows and other things in meetings at work or in the school classroom. If you are using showing your presentation using a computer that either has Microsoft PowerPoint or an open-source alternative such as LibreOffice is installed, then you won’t have any problem with your Read More …
My niece was bugging me lately for helping with her homework. She attends high school and is has started to take interest in the computer programming. They are teaching her the basics of algorithms and flowcharts. So she wanted to find out about a really good, yet easy to use and free flowchart drawing program. Read More …
During my vacations last week, I happened to meet a number of young and aspiring story writers. It was very impressive to see that some of them have already finished writing more than one manuscripts of novels and stories. Until now I used to think that story writers and novelists use software like Microsoft Office, Read More …
One of the first things that we learn when starting to use the computers is how to undo various steps or actions when editing documents. The universal Ctrl+Z hotkey applies to thousands of applications in Windows and does away the last action that you performed. The popular open-source office suite LibreOffice is no different. When Read More …
LibreOffice is an open-source office software suite that is fully compatible with Microsoft Office documents. I have been using LibreOffice for all my document needs for a couple of years now. Most of the times, I need LibreOffice for viewing the Microsoft Word documents (.docx or .doc files). But I sometimes also create the Word Read More …