Create professional looking Invoices with Linux ?

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2008-11-12 09:09, Richard England wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:42 -0800, Richard England wrote:
>>  
>>> Kevin Kempter wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi All;
>>>>
>>>> anyone have suggestions per software or openoffice templates that 
>>>> will help me create professional looking invoices ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> OpenOffice 2.3 on my F8 system, and OpenOffice 2.4 on my F9 system 
>>> both an invoice form available.  I don't believe I've added anything 
>>> of that nature post install.
>>>
>>> Look in File>New>Templates and Documents  In OO2.3  At that level 
>>> there are two called Modern Invoice and Elegant Invoice.  In OO2.4 
>>> use the same pull down but click on the "Templates" group and there 
>>> is an Invoice document there.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> ~~R
>>>
>>>     
>> When I do what you indicate on OO2.4 I see no Invoices in the Templates.
>> Why is your version different or have to added a OO help program that I
>> don't have?
>> Can you explain?
>>   
> Apparently not.
> In OO 2.4 I go to   File>New>Templates and Documents   and a pop-up 
> appears.  The choices there are   New Documents, Templates, My 
> Documents, and Samples.    If I click on Templates I see a  single 
> Invoice selection available.
> 
> I also do not see a  File>New>Documents  pull down, as someone else 
> reported.  I see Text Document,  HTML Document, XML Document and Master 
> Document under the New entry.  I also see no references to "Biz Documents"
> 
> This is the Fedora version of v2.4, I've not loaded the OO version.  
> Perhaps there is a difference there.  This is also a former F8 machine 
> that was upgraded using preupgrade.  Maybe there is something from a 
> previous version lingering.
> 
> 
> If any one can tell me how to determine if I have any other packages 
> loaded for OO  I'll be glad to investigate but rpm did not show anything 
> and I haven't found a place to identify plugins or add ons in any of the 
> menus selections.
> 
> I think this thread is stepping past usefulness, at this point, but we 
> can carry on if anyone _really_ needs to get to the bottom of this.
> 
> ~~R
> 

I found it:

Go to File->New->Templates and Documents.  In the pop-up click on 
Templates (if not already selected), then click on Business 
Correspondence.  There is an Invoice template there.

The next time you open the Templates and Documents, you're already in 
the Business Correspondence section, so this would explain the 
difference between Richard and Aaron (if I get the attribution right). 
At this point you can click on the small back arrow at the top to go 
back to where you can select the Business Correspondence.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender