As Microsoft Office users are converting to OpenOffice.org in droves due to a wide difference in price and no onerous licensing or restrictive installation and activation requirements, this timely guide to making this switch helps MS Office users get up to speed quickly. With the goal of preventing Office users from becoming bogged down and spending a lot of time learning how OpenOffice.org's functionality differs, this book allows them to accomplish what they can already do in Microsoft Office with their new office suite. Covered are the installation and configuration of OOo, file compatibility, exchange, and layouts. Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw are also discussed as replacements for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Paint along with hundreds of tips on using them in day-to-day work. The capabilities of OOo Math are demonstrated, as is the OOo application programming interface.
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Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., has developed and enhanced numerous FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She served as editor of FoxPro Advisor and is the coauthor of the magazine’s popular “Advisor Answers” column. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sam Hiser is an open source advocate and systems consultant to media, financial services, government, and education. He is a senior contributor and member of the Release Committee of OpenOffice.org.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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The switch got easier especially for Novices,
By "cigarone" (Tucker, GA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: OOoSwitch: 501 Things You Want to Know About Switching To OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office (Paperback)
For those of us coming from an MS world, it helps with any new software to have assistance to overcome the learning curve. OOoSwitch jumpstarts the "trial and error" learning curve methodology by showing the differences and similarities between MS Office and OpenOffice.org. The PDF feature in OOo would be reason enough to endure the learning curve, but OOoSwitch makes the transition fairly painless. By pointing out tasks I've already mastered in MS Office, I'm becoming reasonbly proficent in OOo. Good book for experienced MS Office users and noncomputer types.
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This gets the job done,
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This review is from: OOoSwitch: 501 Things You Want to Know About Switching To OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office (Paperback)
If you know how to do a task in Word, then you can quickly look up how to do it in Write. The language is simple and easy to use. My Mother liked it so much, that she took my copy.
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OOoSwitch: 501 Things You Wanted To Know About Switching to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office,
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This review is from: OOoSwitch: 501 Things You Want to Know About Switching To OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office (Paperback)
Few of us have time to read a guide book cover-to-cover, so it's nice to find one that's well-organized. This one is! OpenOffice.org is a new product/project that's still ironing out problems and making improvements. If you can't find what you need within this book, it also gives the website for the reader/user to ask questions and even invites their input.
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database bar, function toolbar, long click, sum button, object toolbar, revision marking, editing the graph, mail merge document, master document, main toolbar, master slide, pivot table, object bar, shortcut menu, content slide, page style, font characteristics, graphed data, formula bar, revision marks, empty record, existing macros, combo box, existing presentation, same techniques work Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Microsoft Office, Making Life Easier, Form Functions, Microsoft Word, Cancel Help Reset Figure, Report Autopilot, Slide View, Style Catalog, Microsoft Excel, Online Layout, Cancel Figure, Table Format, Object Properties, Paste Special, Query Designer, Back Figure, Create Figure, Custom Quotes, Drop Caps, Handout View, Printer Options, Customize Toolbars, Heading Heading, Insert Graphics, Insert Slide New!
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