- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (4 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0672326183
- ISBN-13: 978-0672326189
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 204,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An alternative for Microsoft Office and StarOffice users has arrived in the form of OpenOffice.org. If you are part of the growing number of people who are making the switch from Microsoft Office or StarOffice to the free OpenOffice.org 1.1 suite, Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org All In One is a must-have tool. Make a smooth transition from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org 1.1 with this task tutorial, starter kit CD-ROM and step-by-step instruction guide. Learn how to productively use the Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw applications in the OpenOffice.org 1.1 suite and how you will be able to easily work with those still using Microsoft Office and StarOffice. Don't lose valuable time trying to learn OpenOffice.org 1.1 on your own — let Sams Teach Yourself help!
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An alternative for Microsoft Office and StarOffice users has arrived in the form of OpenOffice.org. If you are part of the growing number of people who are making the switch from Microsoft Office or StarOffice to the free OpenOffice.org 1.1 suite, Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org All In One is a must-have tool. Make a smooth transition from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org 1.1 with this task tutorial, starter kit CD-ROM and step-by-step instruction guide. Learn how to productively use the Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw applications in the OpenOffice.org 1.1 suite and how you will be able to easily work with those still using Microsoft Office and StarOffice. Don't lose valuable time trying to learn OpenOffice.org 1.1 on your own — let Sams Teach Yourself help!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A bit out of date but....,
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Openoffice.Org All in One (Paperback)
I find the online tutorials no so helpful as a book. I like to read and study sitting confortably with a cup of coffee.
This book is 2005 so its a bit out of date, there are more things in OO now. Nevertheless it told me the sort of things I wanted to know. To a large extent OO is self evident and the help files work well, but I wanted to read about styles, indexing, frames etc and this book was OK for me.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Expensive when its all free on the web.,
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Openoffice.Org All in One (Paperback)
You can find most of this info. on the web so why bother wasting trees by buying a book? I bought it before I found all the online tutorials and can still vouch for the excellent Amazon returns policy and efficiency.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not really All in One at all...,
By SwissMac - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Openoffice.Org All in One (Paperback)
OpenOffice has some fine points, and in some areas can do things Microsoft Office finds impossible - live connection to a database being one of them. Unfortunately there is very little documentation available anywhere to get to grips with automation or the finer points of working with server based Open Source databases such as MySQL, a program that is probably the world's favourite Open Source database solution.
I bought this book hoping it would enable me to get to grips with OpenOffice as a complete package. However, the "All in One" label seems misplaced as in more than one place the authors plainly state that they do not want to cover the database connection issues, but focus instead on very simple matters like "How to Open a File" or "Printing" or even "How to Save your Work". Oh dear. Perhaps this omission is because there is very little information in the public domain for them to research and so they could not actually find out how to use OpenOffice in a more complex yet productive way. I would have hoped that any author claiming to be writing an "All in One" guide would have been able to work this out for themselves so they can pass on this knowledge to the rest of us. That's why I buy books: to get help with the hard stuff. This book may be of some use to complete computer beginners, or to non-technical staff who are being migrated onto the OpenOffice platform from a large Office suite and need to find their way around reliably. I can't see it being helpful to developers or to people who wish to use OpenOffice as part of an application that uses live data, or to people who need to perform repetitive tasks hundreds of times and need help understanding how to adapt the software to their own individual needs. A shame, because the software program itself seems rather good. I just wish I could find a book that fully explains the difficult stuff to me, and doesn't patronise me with banal "how tos" of rather intuititive actions that most people can figure out in less than two minutes. I do appreciate the book is probably not aimed at geeky IT nerds, but I do not work in IT yet still need rather a lot more than this book offers. All in One it certainly isn't. 14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
free and almost as capable,
By W Boudville - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Openoffice.Org All in One (Paperback)
Tired of paying tribute to the latest Microsoft Office suite? Each year or so, Microsoft Office comes out with an upgrade. Usually, powerful new features are introduced. But haven't you wondered how many of these, or indeed of existing features, do you actually use?
Herein, the book shows you a viable and free alternative. Perry does say forthrightly that Microsoft Office has more features than OpenOffice, and for certain operations, is easier to use. (Fewer steps.) But he then goes onto explain the very many existing capabilities of OpenOffice. You should see right up that the Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw are very polished. A lot of thought has gone into making the usability as easy as possible. Hopefully, the book might indicate that OpenOffice's choices of menus and actions is very intuitive. Its designers do not want to cede any ground to Microsoft on the usability issues. One thing to note is that you can experiment, by just trying out one of the OpenOffice packages, in lieu of its Microsoft counterpart. While still using the rest of the Microsoft suite. A low risk approach, backed up by the book's advice on the program you're testing. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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OpenOffice.org- The Best in Free Office Software,
By Terri Merritts - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Openoffice.Org All in One (Paperback)
OpenOffice.org is the very best in absolutely free office software comparable to Microsoft Office, only free. Of course, when you download the software online, you will want this wonderful guidebook to show you how to use it. This is so easy to learn and this book just takes you effortlessly step-by-step. Everything is right here in one book and is illustrated and described so you will be up and running with the software almost instantly. I highly recommend this book.
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