HowTo Create List of Tables with Hyperlink in OpenOffice

Don't strugle to search help on how to create List of Tables with Hyperlink in OpenOffice (or maybe Microsoft Office), you won't find it. There is a workaround though, juts follow this link:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=69516&highlight=

HowTo Insert different formats of page number in OpenOffice

The scenario of this exercise is this:
You want to create a text document which is divided into 3 sections: cover page without page number, table of content with i, ii, etc style of page number, and main body with 1, 2, etc style of page number.
Below are the steps how to insert different formats of page numbers:
1. Open a new empty document
2. Open "Styles and Formatting" dialog by Format>Styles and Formatting or F11
3. Click on "Page Styles" (the 4th box from the left)
4. Right click on the empty space, click "New"
4. Give for example "Cover" for the name
5. Create a new style again (step 4), give the name "table of content"
6. Click "Footer", check "Footer on"
7. Click "Page", and choose i, ii, iii as Format
8. Repeat step 5,6,7 with different name, for example "main body", then choose 1, 2, 3 as format
9. Now it's time to apply the styles we made
10.Create 3 sections by inserting page break. Insert>Manual Break>Choose "table of content" for the style, change "page number" to 1 (or as you like). Do it again, Insert>Manual Break>Choose "main body" for the style, change "page number" to 1 (or as you like).
11. Put click on the footer, Insert>Field>Page Numbers

That's all what you need.

HowTo Convert CHM file into different formats in Linux

CHM file format is designed for Windows only. You can open the file in for example Linux (if you use Firefox for your internet browser) by installing an extention called CHM Reader. Once it's installed, you can open your CHM file and read the CHM file normally. If you want to convert it into PDF or HTML format, follow this link:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-convert-chm-files-to-html-or-pdf-files.html

Thanks to the owner of the site.

HowTo Combine PDF Files in Ubuntu Linux

Have you ever wondered how to combine multiple PDF files into one file? Sometimes you download several pdf files of the same topics and want to combine them into one file. In Ubuntu you can do it like the link below:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/combine-multiple-pdfs-into-one-file-in-ubuntu-linux.html

Thanks to the owner of that site.

Free Office Software

I still don't understand why people like spending their money to buy expensive Microsoft Office software? For sure the products offer a lot of feature, but are you gonna use all of those features? Also, do you know the free similar software for doing your office activities? Try the free software and if don't like it, uninstall it from your computer and then buy the nonfree one and compare them (but you cann't get your money back for your purchased software because you already open the seal).
Try OpenOffice software or free version of Star Office from Sun Microsystem.
You can download OpenOffice from here http://www.openoffice.org/
or Star Office from here http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=ca
Hope will be usefull.

Table of Content on OpenOffice

Below are the easy way to create TOC on OpenOffice, thanks to the members of OOo forum.

For indented TOC, please refer to this link:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=69516&highlight=

If you further need to make a hanging indent TOC because the heading is toooooo long to fit it one line, you can follow this link:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=68115

How to download youtube video and convert it to mpeg

Sometime we need to watch some videos we found on youtube, which is usually in flash video file format (.flv). We don't have to be connected to internet all the time any time we want to watch it again. Once we have donwloaded the video from youtube, save it in our hard drive, then just play with the software we already installed on our computer.
Below the steps we need to follow in order to do that:
1. I assume you have Firefox internet browser installed on your computer (if you use other browser, you need to figure out the similar way).
2. Install DownloadHelper extension for the Firefox.
3. Go to www. youtube.com and open the video you want to watch.
4. Download the *.flv file by clicking Tools>DownloadHelper>(filename)
5. Change file name extention to flv.
6. Run VLC media player (a free multi platform video player software). If you don't have it on your computer, you need to download and then install it.
5. Open your video fiel (*.flv) you download from youtube and then play it.
6. Enjoy you vide0.

If you need to convert your flv video files into other formats such mpg so you can play it on your DVD player, you need to use for example Riva Encoder to do that job for you. If you use Riva Encoder to convert from flv format into mpeg format, don't close the program when nothing seems to happen during conversion. In my experience, during conversion, Riva does not show anything indicating the progress of conversion, even the window is greyed out. Just wait and it will be back to normal appearance when it's done. Good luck.
Hopefully this will hel you.