WordPerfect® for Linux® Bible [Paperback]

Stephen E. Harris (Author), Erwin Zijleman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764533746 | ISBN-13: 978-0764533747 | Publication Date: July 1999

This reference gives step-by-step instructions, using "real life" examples, on how to use WordPerfect's tools - from exploiting text handling and graphics use, to creating templates and macros, to advanced document management. It includes a CD ROM with additional Linux tools.

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About the Author

Stephen E. Harris is the founder and president of QwkScreen, a software development and consulting firm dedicated to making the computer screen a friendlier place. Author of the best-selling titles WordPerfect 7 Bible and WordPerfect Suite 8 Bible, Steve is a proud member of the Corel Beta Squad. He lives in the woods of western Massachusetts with his wife Githa, three cats (Tiger, Becky, and Chester), bears, deer, turkeys, and other assorted wildlife. qwkscreen.com.

; Erwin Zijleman started out as a

Product Details

• Paperback: 670 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers) (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764533746
• ISBN-13: 978-0764533747
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,028,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Linux user needs to get this book, December 23, 1999

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Donovan Smith - See all my reviews

This review is from: WordPerfect® for Linux® Bible (Paperback)

WordPerfect for Linux Bible is a great book. It includes the full version of Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux Personal Edition. Both the book and the software are excellent and easy to use. The books detailed instructions will have you creating documents in WordPerfect minutes after you open it up.

The WordPerfect for Linux Bible gives detailed instructions for almost every WordPerfect feature. I definately recommend this book to any Linux user. Considering that this book also includes the full version of WordPerfect 8 for Linux Personal Edition included in the book's low price, it is definately a bargain.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WordPerfect 8 for Linux, a brief history, April 30, 2000

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W. (Honolulu, HI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WordPerfect® for Linux® Bible (Paperback)

WordPerfect 8 for Linux itself has a very interesting history. It is actually a repackaged "WordPerfect 8 for Unix", which is still being sold for around $800 per copy. When Corel's CEO Mike Cowpland decided to move his company into the Linux world, he essentially donated this used-to-be-unreachable product to the public.

Because the downloaded version does not come with a manual, the overwhelming majority of its users probably failed to appreciate the beauty and the power of this classic product. For example, it has more than 100 mathmatical/financial/logical/string functions (plse see Chap. 21 of "WP8 for Linux Bible"), and its speed-table-format feature (pp. 83-84) will make even Microsoft Word (for Windows) users salivating. It also comes with a very powerful database engine for table sorting. Its text search feature, including the ability to build a quick search data base, is also unparallelled (pp. 127-131).

I often found it very difficult as to where to begin when I was asked about what WordPerfect can do but not Star Office. These two products are in two totally different leagues. Unfortunately, Corel seems to be only interested in giving it away, and has failed miserably to educate the public about its merits. I bet even Corel's sales don't know what a gem they have.

I was a technical editor of this book, and have read every word and tested every example in at least half of its chapters. Let me tell you, this is an excellent book of a great productivity program. Mr. Steve Harris is also the author for the Windows versions of WordPerfect 7, 8, and 9.

For about $40, you get a product which used to cost $800, plus an excellent manual/guide book. I will not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who is serious about using Linux for productive work.

Mahalo.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best reference book for WPLINUX 8,x, July 12, 2000

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Xavier Basora - See all my reviews

This review is from: WordPerfect® for Linux® Bible (Paperback)

Steve and Erwin's book is arguably the best reference book for newbie and intermediate Penguinistas who want to learn all they can about WPLINUX 8,x This book, like Steve and Erwin's other titles for the Windows versions of 8 & 9, is well written, the explanations are clear, concise and jargon free. Better yet, you can tell that both authours had a lot of fun learning about WPLINUX 8. I've learnt so much that when I installed COLOS 1,1, I was able to configure WPLINUX 8,1 to my needs and begin writing within a half hour follwing Steve and Erwin's book. If there's one minor quibble it,s the the book doesn't cover printing and printer configuration- a perennial headache for all Penguinistas. But that absence is complemented by Roderick Smith's book on WPLINUX 8. I wouldn't be surprised if some users refer both to Steve and Erwin's WPWIN 9 bible book for the specific feature of WPLINUX 9 and the WPLINUX 8 bible for the specifically LINUX aspect of 9. What I greatly appreciate about the WPLINUX 8 bible is that it offers the commercial version of WPLINUX 8, 150 fonts and the KDE desktop for Redhat 5,1/2. So for some 30$ you get a program that normally costs 74,00$ plus some free goodies. I highly recommend the WPLINUX 8 bible as simply the best reference/rescource on WPLINUX 8,x