Showing posts with label Office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Office. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Corel WordPerfect Office X4 Reviewer's Guide

In the last two years, the office productivity market has experienced dramatic change. New Web-based applications, new file formats, and new user experiences have risen to prominence as vendors attempt to turn new technologies into a larger share of the highly profitable office productivity market. Corel® WordPerfect® Office has long been the leading alternative to Microsoft® Office. And now, Corel WordPerfect Office X4 delivers an exciting upgrade to the legendary office suite, directly addressing the needs of today’s PC user, as well as the productivity technology trends of today and tomorrow.

Corel WordPerfect Office X4 breaks new ground as
• the first PDF office suite, offering import, edit, and export of PDF documents.
• the first hybrid online/offline office suite, with new, Web-connected tools for notebooking, data analysis, and collaboration.
• the first format-neutral office suite, offering support for more than 60 formats including Open Document Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML).
These exciting capabilities, plus new and classic features in WordPerfect® X4, make Corel WordPerfect Office X4 today’s best office suite value.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Install OpenOffice From A CD

This tutorial describes the procedure for Microsoft Windows XP. The procedure for other versions of Windows (eg. 98, 2000, Vista, etc.) should be almost identical. Users of other operating systems (Linux, Mac, Solaris, etc.) should refer to the installation instructions given on the OpenOffice.org website here.

Our tutorials are designed to provide simple step-by-step instructions, with the minimum of extra information. In some steps it is necessary to include important information (shown in italicized text like this), to assist our users in completing the installation process a smoothly as possible.

At the end of the tutorial you will find additional notes that are not critical to successfully completing the installation process, but may be of some assistance or interest to our users. Where these notes relate to a specific step in the tutorial, a link (shown like this) appears next to the step.

We suggest that you print these pages, so that you can follow the step-by-step instructions. (Click File → Print → OK)

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eTakeoff of ePlans in Excel Tutorial

BidScreen XL is a Microsoft Excel add-in program that measures items from AutoCad DWG, PDF, TIFF and other file types while working in Excel. Additional calculations on the area, length and count measurements generated with BidScreen are performed through formulas and functions directly in Microsoft Excel. A concise audit trail is provided by automatically storing the drawing with the digitized measurement into any Excel workbook cell and file. In summary, BidScreen allows you to view and measure from many files types while clearly organizing your takeoff in any Microsoft Excel workbook.

Before we begin, a few words on performing the takeoff and estimate:
⇒ Quantity Takeoff is performed by measuring certain items and then calculating the desired quantities from these measurements. ⇒ Estimating is applying costs to the quantities.

Applying the estimated cost to the quantities is usually performed in either an Excel workbook, a stand alone takeoff program or through a relational database estimating program. We at Vertigraph believe that organizing your takeoff quantities in Microsoft Excel, regardless of the software used for estimating, is often the easiest, most logical and best way to organize the takeoff for most contractors. You’ll measure with BidScreen and calculate quantities with Microsoft Excel. Excel is not for everybody however; certain divisions of work, such as site excavation and some of the mechanical trades may be better served by performing the takeoff in trade specific, non-spreadsheet applications. Overwhelmingly however, Excel is the number one application by far for both large and small contractors for documenting takeoff quantities. In addition to the takeoff, Excel also has the largest market share among contractors for estimating the costs of construction.

As a result of the widespread use and power of Excel, we at Vertigraph promote Excel estimating and have included a collection of takeoff and estimating workbook files for you use and review. Many of our customers have already created their own Excel estimating template. Others use the included Excel workbooks and customize these templates to fit their needs. After installing the software, the Excel takeoff and estimating workbooks provided with BidScreen are found at the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Vertigraph\BidScreen XL\examples folder when installing under Windows XP. If you installed BidScreen XL under Windows Vista, these Excel workbooks are found at C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Vertigraph\BidScreen XL\examples.

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