Open Office has been gaining popularity amongst users around the world partly due to it being free and partly due to it being an amazing tool.
Open office has gained some great features that I really enjoy, saving as doc, saving as pdf, a great spell check library, and an easy to use interface. OpenOffice for me has just been an amazing journey past what Microsoft can offer with a much more intuitive interface. Starting with OpenOffice 3.0 there is now support to open the new Office 2007 docx documents within OpenOffice, although there is no way to save them back to docx it is still nice to be able to convert them to something usable.
When I started at my local university I had no idea that there was a free and open source project out there that had so much functionality. Once I got my hands on it and dealt with the minor learning curve I was back in business and every paper I have written in the last 3 years has been with an OpenOffice version.
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Over the last few days I have been modifying this Wordpress blog to be more of a tech blog. I did run into a few issues since I couldn’t find a theme that suited my style but more on that later. I ran into an issue where I didn’t want to throw away all my old posts but wanted to move them to someplace else using categories.
After about an hour of manually looking at each post and editing the category I grew tired of doing this all by hand and thought “someone has to have come up with a better way”, well they did.
Rob Miller over at Roblog has created a great little Wordpress plug-in that allows you to take all of your posts and easily manage the category on them without having to look at each one individually.
Screen Cap Batch Categories
As you can see it makes a list that is more easily manageable and in a short time I was able to take all my old posts and move them into a new category. Neat huh?
What makes Wordpress the greatest blogging tool out there is its ability to have some of the worlds best plugins that can make or break a content management system.
If you would like to take this handy little plugin for a ride follow the link below.
<<Download Batch Categories for Wordpress 2.6.5>>
For more information on Wordpress, extensions, and themes follow the link below.
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Please note that this plug-in does not currently support Wordpress 2.7
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