Tag Archives: Open Office

Using VoxEnable for Open Office Text Speech Control

Have you heard of VoxEnable, a Windows software application that uses voice commands to activate a range of applications. You can do all sorts of things such as opening, editing, creating and exporting. All of these concepts are possible within your application. Check out this demo with Open Office.

Use your voice to control text with open source software VoxEnable

A demonstration using VoxEnable and your voice to control open office text software

Why do my MS excel files keep opening in Open Office?

I have Open Office just to be able to save some files in pdf format. I like using MS Word and Excel for everything else. Recently however, my excel files began opening in Open Office vs MS and I want to stop that from happening. I tried to right click and open in MS and got garbage.


This is an easy queston to answer. You need to change the attributes in Windows for you *.xls files back to Excel. Its currently set to Open Ofice Calc. However, you could just use Open Office and make the default format for Calc file to *.xls. The differenc, however, may be with cells with blank values in the formulas. I use Open Office as much as possible as I stay on the Ubuntu side of my computer. Saving Calc files to *.xls let’s us stay with Open Office but be able to send work to others that they can open successfully.

What is Open Source, Really?

The open source movement has many proponents, and the Open Source Initiative, or OSI, has been key to its momentum. || Join the chat: bit.ly || In this week’s OS.ALT you can see my interview from oscon with Simon Phipps from the OSI. We talk about what the OSI is, what changes are happening to its structure, and how everyone can now both support and benefit from the Open Source Initiative!