Well, why shouldn’t you? But is it comfortable? That’s what I’m trying to find out.Īs I’m sure you know Open Office is a free office suite for text editing, spreadsheets and the like. This would have been next to impossible to do in Excel.Can you write a screenplay in Open Office? +-+-+ N folds to N, U folds to U, N backs to U The rotations were used to cut down on the amount of cutting and gluing I would need to do. 10 inches, formatted as 7 merged columns, 2 groups normal rotation, 2 groups true upside down rotation -180 degrees and repositioned-, 2 groups normal rotation). That flipbook has 6 collections of cells per page (35 columns x 25 rows per group, all cells are. Also the restriction that you can't delete a row or column if they pass through merged cell(s) (it can't delete the row or column then recombined the cells as before) or sort a formatted set of data needs to be fixed. The limit of 2 decimal places is a bit small (3 or 4 would be better for 6 or 8 lines per inch, cell sizes. I popped in a usb key I made a while back and fired up OpenOffice Calc on a whim and looked at Format Cells|Alignment and there it was: full, true 360 degree text rotation.Īnd the cells can be sized in parts of an inch too (.10 gives 10 lines per inch, in both vertically and horizontally). Just what type of measurement does MS Office use anyway, twips and points? How many twips or points to a printed inch, vertically and horizontally?

Also, I wanted better control over cell height and width. I even began a search for true upside-down (reversed, flipped) fonts (mainly Courier New). I just finished searching the web for 2 days trying to find a way to have text in a cell upside down in Excel without using WordArt or making the layout on the edge and using Landscape Print mode. My current project is a 3.5 by 2.5 (playing card sized) bound 16 page flipbook with several charts and a table of most of the powers found in the books and on the web for M.E.G.S. version) and like having small portable reference material (charts and tables) in my pocket for those times I get ideas outside the games. I play pen and paper RPG games (DnD, DC Heroes/Blood of Heroes M.E.G.S. OpenOffice is better than MS Office 2K3 in many ways.

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