Father called. Had a problem. He needed to delete a table that he started entering data into, but didn't want to go through and cut and paste data from every row and place it outside the table and then delete the table. A quick search found little results for OpenOffice.org but a couple for Word. So I decided to post this built-in trick that many might not know about.

If you have a table in OpenOffice.org Word Processor and want to delete the table with out deleting the data,

select Table > Convert > Table to Text...,

then select whether you have the data spaced out by tabs, semicolons, paragraphs or other (if you're not sure, keep the default),

and viola! You have removed the table without sacrificing your data.

Hope this helps!

I updated brettalton.com to reflect the following changes:

• Fixed a mistake on the Home page so that 6 slides show instead of the first 4
• Added two new photos to the Design page
• Updated the photo of me on the About Me page
• Attempted to use @font-face property to added the Ubuntu font for those who do not have it installed

Take a look!

Did anyone hear about the secret meeting that Microsoft and Adobe had, discussing ways of overcoming Apple in the mobile phone market?

A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft were among the options.

I for one, would HATE to see Adobe be purchased by Microsoft (and so would Google) as Flash is used by 98% of the World's desktop users and I'm positive they would eventually drop Linux support and integrate with SilverLight. And let's not even bring up Photoshop and how the chances of it being ported to Linux will be zero.

I suggest you read the article as it's important to the future of the desktop.