OpenOffice

OpenOffice Calc is surprisingly an excellent tool for creating wireframes. Wireframes can be created very easily in OpenOffice Calc using the standard shapes available from the drawing toolbar and also by merging cells in the sheet. Each sheet can be used to define a single wireframe and then a single spreadsheet document can contain all the wireframes for a given project. OpenOffice Calc also allows you to export the full set of wireframes as a pdf document with one page corresponding to each sheet in the document. Here are some tips to create good wireframes using OpenOffice Calc.

Openoffice comes with a stripped down version of regular expression for both of its Find/Replace Utility as well as its Calc Formulae. It however still packs a punch for most common operations. Here is how you can strip HTML tags from an open office document using the Find/Replace dialog.