[Bradford] Bradford CVS FOSS series

John R Hudson j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com
Mon May 24 19:33:15 UTC 2010


Hi, all - as promised but a bit later than I intended, here is the list of 
topics covered so far. I was thinking of having another one on Firefox next 
but any suggestions or contributions welcome.

John

Topics covered in Bradford CVS series (n.b. newsletter published every six 
weeks)

January: OpenOffice

Free, like MS Office 2003 but reads MS Office 2007 files
Download
Tools>Options
File formats

March: OpenOffice Writer
3.2 released
Importing older file formats
Right-clicking for formatting option
utf-8 and international character sets
installing dictionaries
using multiple languages

April: Firefox
cross-platform
secure
faster 
extensible, plugins
user centred
downloading



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