New Openoffice.org Template Repository

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Openoffice.org has launched a new website specifically for templates: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/. Here you can find all the templates you need for presentations, letterheads, business cards, all types of spreadsheets and lots lots more. Search by Tags, highest rated, most popular, latest template,  business, education and private.

If you have created a great template, please feel free to upload it and share your work with the community.

If you need label templates for Openoffice.org Writer and Draw visit the Worldlabel Openoffice.org template page.

Don’t forget Openoffice.org Extensions, these are macros/add-ons that extend Openoffice.org in all types of ways and functionality. There are almost 300 great extensions to help you become more productive. Here you can also publish your extensions and discover how popular they are. Check out the Sun PDF Import extension, Writer Tools, Color palettes and color Atlas, Wordlabel’s OOoDesignedLabels and so much more!

How to use PDF Templates for Labels & Business Cards in Adobe InDesign (CS1-4)

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The following article will help you use our PDF Label Templates in Adobe InDesign (CS1-4). The author, Anne-Marie Concepción, is Chicago’s top source for cross-media publication design and authorized Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and Quark training.

  1. Download the PDF template that matches the type of labels you’ll be printing on, and save the template to a convenient location, like your desktop. In the example you’ll be using throughout this tutorial, you’re printing out standard address labels, 30 per page, so you’ve downloaded the WL-OL875 template. For standard business cards, use this template WL-OL244. The general steps outlined here should work with any template, though of course the settings you’ll enter should be customized to your particular template.

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Labels help the Elderly

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You may have people in your life who have reached their golden years. As loved ones age, they may experience more difficulty in processing certain information. Impairments in information processing run the gamut from difficulty associating names with faces to moving new facts from short-term to long-term memory.

The power of the label can help the elderly make their lives easier. By simply printing labels with general information and placing them around the home, those who have trouble recalling certain things will find the information literally in front of their faces.

Labels for the Elderly

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Ten + Open Source Graphic and Text Viewer/Editor Software Programs

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We know you love OpenOffice.org, as this software provides everything you need to create professional documents, spreadsheets, images and more – all for free, because it’s open source. But, other programs exist that can live peacefully beside your OpenOffice.org environment. The graphic and text viewers and editors listed below also are open source or licensed under a GNU General Public License.

Although many open source software programs are designed only for open source operating systems (OS), most developers know it will take years for everyone to switch to Linux or Unix OS. And, they also know that not everyone is keen on using Linux or Unix. So, they’ve developed software that is cross-platform. This is a good thing, as most people are willing to try something that’s free…and that’s the foundation for the list of ten-plus (actually twelve) open source graphic and text viewer or editing software programs listed below:

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Five Label-Smart Wedding Ideas

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We wondered how many of our readers got engaged over the holidays? We know of at least two engagements (congrats to Jill and David and to Marilyn and Steve!), so we thought we’d provide them – and you – with a few pre-wedding tips on how to use labels to save money and headaches as you plan for the big day.

The information below was gathered from blogs, not from corporate sponsors, so you can rest assured that the tips are creative and useful. Plus, we can turn you on to some great wedding blogs in the process. Be sure to write to these bloggers to let them know you like their ideas! The list is alphabetical, a method we use to assure readers that we don’t prefer one idea or blogger over another.

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Mail Merges in OpenOffice.org In-depth

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Mail merge provides business owners, organizational leaders and even families a way to communicate easily and effectively with clients, members and friends. Mail merge allows users to personalize letters so that mass communication becomes more personal and yet efficient. Mail merge also is an efficient way to organize mailing lists for mailing labels. But, how can you use mail merge in Open Office? That’s the question!

We’ve provided an In-depth guide to mail merge with OpenOffice.org which explains all the intricacies of using this powerful feature. Learn how to use the mail merge feature to create letters, labels, and envelopes. The guide is also available as a PDF eBook document for your perusal. Continue to article or download the eBook.

The author of this article is Solveig Haugland, an author, instructor, and consultant near Denver, Colorado. She has been working with OpenOffice.org and StarOffice since 1999 and loves to show people how to make OpenOffice.org do what they need it to. She blogs at http://openoffice.blogs.com and her business web site is http://www.getopenoffice.org.

Ten Great Organizing Sites

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We’re far from perfect when it comes to organization, so we often scout the Web for new and interesting ideas on how to keep our plates clean. This list is one way to organize, as we can reference it when we need new ideas. So, we thought we’d share the list with you, along with some of the greatest organizing ideas we’ve learned along the way.

The list is in no particular order, and we don’t recommend any site over another:

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Tie Holidays Into Your Business with Labels

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How can you use labels to help promote your business? Outside the labels that you use for mailing, you can create multi-line or single word messages in eye-catching colors that send an offer or idea to clients and customers. But, what do you want these messages to say?

Use our list below for ideas on how to create labels for packages, billing envelopes and other mailed or shipped containers. Each idea can help cement your company with a great idea, reminder or announcement in your customer’s thoughts:

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Worldlabel and Colour Lovers Provide Free Labels (Update)

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We love open source, so any project that provides users with the ability to use open source products really rocks our world. This time, we’ve teamed up with ColourLovers.com (Color Lovers) to create some wild labels that will catch anyone’s attention! The colors chosen for each CD and address label are ones that are supplied by various palettes cataloged at Color Lovers.

To view the templates, use any of the following office suites to open the files: OpenOffice.org, Koffice, StarOffice, IBM Lotus Symphony, or any other office suite supporting the OpenDocument format. For Microsoft Office users, an ODF plugin is required and can be downloaded for free Sun ODF plugin for MS Office.

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