The OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook | 
 enlarge | Author: Solveig Haugland
Publisher: Solveig Haugland
Category: Book
Buy New: $59.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 269834
Media: Paperback
Pages: 520
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0974312029
EAN: 9780974312026
ASIN: 0974312029
Publication Date: December 10, 2006
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Product Description
The OpenOffice.org Guidebook for OpenOffice.org 2 and StarOffice 8 is the ultimate insider's guide to learning to use and love the office suite. The book provides not just great, simple information about how to use the program but the hidden tips and tricks you'll need to make life easier. The author, Solveig Haugland, the author, has been teaching OpenOffice.org for five years, and has developed this book to address exactly what people really need to know, written in a clear, conversational manner.
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 dissapointed April 25, 2008
winemaker
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
more real life examples and useful lessons needed for this, not the type of book I would recommend for a structured / class type learning environment. Over priced for the value received. Anyone want to buy a used door stop?
 No longer fighting with OO May 21, 2007
H. Goldstein (Florida, USA)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
Before I received this book I was using OO writer and calc in my business and although pleased with it, I'd inevitably wind up fighting with certain automatic settings like numbering or page styles or paragraph formatting and rather than relying on OO's formating capabilities I'd muddled through and hand forced the formatting the way I thought it should come out.
Solveig Haugland's book changed all that. The clear explanations of what was going on beneath the WYSIWYG interface and how they related to the configuration settings, coupled with the book's suggestions on defaults, made me far more productive with OO than I'd been before.
OpenOffice.org guidebook May 14, 2007
Soarhead (Scotland)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book fulfils a huge need we had! For all sorts of reasons we ended up with two PCs with OpenOffice.org on them, one running windows XP and one running Ubuntu. So this book is teaching us all the tips and tricks we need to know to get the best out of this suite in two totally different environments.
Above All, A Practical Guide April 18, 2007
Mr. Fred (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
'Practicality' describes this book best. It is full of useful tips for situations that arise in 'real work.' It is not an academic or theoretical treatise, nor is it a true 'manual' in the sense of feeling the need to describe every option in every drop-down box.
The index is extremely well-done; it is easy to find the solution to a given working problem quickly and efficiently. For instance, I was working on an ebook that required numerous changes in page numbering throughout the book. This would have taken an hour or more on my own; with the Guidebook, I reached 'misson accomplished' status in about ten minutes.
To set the level here, I am no OpenOffice/StarOffice beginner; I have used the products back to the day before Sun bought out StarOffice and when the print manuals were completely, and only, in German. Yet, in just the first five pages of the Guide, I found two new tips, and it just got better after that. The 'demystification' of the use of styles is alone worth more than the price of the book.
The Guide is best for someone with some experience with office suites; complete beginners need to start with a tutorial book first. But if you have any level of knowledge, from rudimentary on up through expert, and want a large number of practical tips on how to really work effectively with OpenOffice, get this book at once.
 Good book to get started with OO March 22, 2007
C. Andreae (Alabama)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a good book to get started with using Open Office. Most of the things I do involve Spreadsheets and some word processing stuff. I recently decided to try and use Open Office exclusively and so far (about 2 months) have had very little trouble doing this. The book has been a help and lead me to try some things that I hadn't even thought of before. I would recommend this book for others who are thinking about trying Open Office.
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