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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: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.