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Hidden Treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Chart Tool

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the added-excitement-for-that-big-deadline dept.

Jane Walker writes "Take a tour of the multi-layered charting tools of OpenOffice 2.0's Charting Wizard, as you learn to create, edit and master the art of making a polished chart." From the article: "The chart features in OpenOffice are like a mystery-lover's dream vacation: a huge, mysterious old house with lots of long halls, secret bookcases, dark closets and creaky doors that, when you peer behind them, reveal wonderful secrets."

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  1. Some more fun with OpenOffice.org by codergeek42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Open up OpenOffice.org Calc, and enter the following into any cell:

    =Game("StarWars")

    Enjoy! :-)

    (Thanks to ChrisWhite on IRC a few months ago for this tidbit...)

  2. Re:Hidden Treasures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try this for an explanation.

  3. Re:Hmm... by dusik · · Score: 5, Informative

    If by "look at" you mean "compile" your statement makes sense. The source code itself is on the order of 100 MB if I remember correctly, but compiling it does take up much more space due to the intermediate files created, and it does take a few hours on a decent PC.

  4. Re:I don't like haunted house interfaces by flynt · · Score: 4, Informative

    You *must* try R if you think gnuplot is good. www.r-project.org. R is hands down the best environment for data analysis and graphics. The graphing is so much more flexible than anything I've ever used, and the language makes extending the functionality of the core packages a breeze. I've been using it for over three years now, and it does take some getting used to, especially if you haven't programmed in a functional language before, but the time invested in learning R will definitely pay off if you analyze data or produce specialty graphs on a regular basis for work or school. Every programmer should know R!