Bruce Byfield

Bruce Byfield (born May 13, 1958) is a contributing editor for the SourceForge sites Linux.com, and the IT Managers Journal. Among other topics, he reports on the Debian Project, the Free Software Foundation, licensing issues, and office applications. He also writes a twice-monthly blog for the Linux Journal website, which tends to center on varying aspects of OpenOffice.org, the free software office suite. In addition to his online publications, he has published in such magazines as Linux Journal, Maximum Linux, and The New Internationalist. His blog, Off the Wall, is a collection of short personal essays.

Before becoming a journalist, Byfield was marketing and communications director at Progeny Linux Systems, and product manager at Stormix Technologies. His book Witches of the Mind is considered the definitive work on the American fantasist Fritz Leiber. He also designs elearning courses and is a marketing and communications consultant.

Byfield lives in Burnaby, Canada. In addition to free and open source software, his interests include parrots, running, science fiction, and listening to punk-folk music. May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... Linux Journal is a monthly magazine published by SpecializedSystemsConsultants (SSC) of Seattle, first published in March 1994. ... Progeny provides Linux platform technology. ... Stormix was a company who debuted their Debian-based Linux distribution with Storm Linux 2000 in late 1999. ... Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (), is the city immediately east of Vancouver. ...

OpenOffice.org Articles in Linux Journal

Byfield list of articles for different OpenOffice.org components: OpenOffice. ...

OpenOffice.org Calc

• Formatting Cells in OpenOffice.org Calc
• Printing in OpenOffice.org Calc, Part 2: Print selection and printer options
• Printing in OpenOffice.org Calc, Part 1: Page Styles
• Manipulating lists in OpenOffice.org Calc
• The Changing Face of Charts in OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org Writer

• extended PDF: Professional PDF Controls for OpenOffice.org
• Hide and Go Seek with Writer Content
• Combining Documents with OpenOffice.org
• That's Your Version: Version Control in OpenOffice.org
• Master Document
• Domesticating Autocorrect

For a complete list you can visit his personal website.