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This step-by-step task-based productivity guide to StarOffice for Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms. Covers every component: Writer, Calc, Impress, Web, Draw, Image, Schedule, Mail, Address Book, Base and more. Authoritative! Straignt from Sun Microsystems, developer of StarOffice.

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The practical, user-friendly, insider's guide to mastering StarOffice!

The step-by-step, task-based productivity guide to StarOffice
For Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms
Covers Writer, Calc, Impress, Web, Draw, Image, Schedule, Mail, Address Book, Base, and more

Imagine: an office productivity suite that's powerful, easy to use, thoroughly integrated—and free! For millions of Linux, Solaris, and Windows users, this is no fantasy. It's a reality, with StarOffice. Now, there's a comprehensive, task-based guide to making the most of StarOffice 5.2—direct from Sun Microsystems, developer of StarOffice!

StarOffice 5.2 Companion also incorporates solutions to questions from hundreds of new StarOffice users, making this the most practical, task-oriented book around. This book delivers clear, step-by-step coverage of every key StarOffice component—focusing on the features, techniques, and tips that help you do what you need to do to get your job done.

You'll find comprehensive coverage of all of the following and more:

Conversion to and from Microsoft file formats—on individual files, entire folders, and scores of other file formats
StarOffice Writer: editing, formatting, collaboration, long documents, mail merge, and printing
StarOffice Calc: data entry, formatting, calculations, functions, and data analysis tools
StarOffice Impress: creating, organizing, designing, and delivering presentations
StarOffice Draw and Image: lines, objects, colors, text, vector drawings, and raster graphics in popular formats like JPG and GIF
StarOffice Web: browsing the Internet, creating HTML documents, hyperlinks, converting other StarOffice formats to HTML, WebCast presentations, FTP, and animated text and graphics
StarOffice Schedule: event and task management, views and filters, notifications, workgroup scheduling, and PalmPilot synchronization
StarOffice Mail and Address Book: email, newsgroups, and contacts management
Installation and printer setup information: Getting StarOffice up and running quickly on your home computer, and detailed instructions for implementing an enterprise-wide networked solution
Customizing the StarOffice integrated environment to make using StarOffice simple and productive

StarOffice Companion also contains detailed coverage of StarOffice 5.2's Web browsing and database features—even an introduction to StarOffice Basic, StarOffice's powerful macro automation language.

Want to get productive with StarOffice? Here's the practical, direct, expert guide you've been searching for: StarOffice 5.2 Companion.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

The book that makes StarOffice easy to use 24 Nov 2002

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I've been badgering everyone I know to get this book, and finally one of my badgerees said I should tell everyone on Amazon and stop bugging my friends. All right, here it is.

I started using StarOffice two years ago at work and couldn't figure out a thing. Everyone else was in the same boat. Then my manager ordered a bunch of these Companion thingies and I started looking at the index every time I needed to do something. Shazam. It was there. I looked up something else. It was there too (doing cross references in Writer). And when I needed to print multiple headings out of Calc on multiple pages, there it was, in the index and with all the steps to do it, very simple and clear. My favorite is the "Turning Off Annoying Features" section. It showed me how to turn off all the annoying MS-paperclip-like things that waste your time.

So eventually we all figured out that StarOffice actually can do a lot of things, and it's not that hard, but you can't figure it out without a book. It's easy when you know how. And this book tells you how. Get it before you lose anymore hair or flatten your forehead anymore.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Excellent introduction to Star Office 9 May 2001

By Richard in Nottingham

StarOffice may not be the market leader in office applications, but it is certainly a lot cheaper than most (free if you download it from the Internet) and provides a unified way of working with spreadsheets, documents, presentations, etc. I have read other guides to StarOffice but found this Companion answered all my questions and showed me how to perform advanced formatting tasks that I was familiar with in MS Office.

Definitely one for the briefcase!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Essential for StarOffice 5.2 16 Dec 2002

By "lucybeagley"

We were quite dependent on this book for the first month or so of using StarOffice, and then ordered the 6.0 update to this book once we decided to switch to StarOffice 6.0. It's very nicely written, well organized, and it is easy to find the instructions for what one needs to do.