This book was created to give students, faculty and administrators an introduction to 3. James steinberg, gold turtle publishing, december 2012, isbn 9781481270939. In other words, styles means that you shift the emphasis from what the text looks like, to what the text is. Writing and formatting a book correctly can be a tedious and often frustrating task. Using styles means that you stop saying font size 14pt, times new roman, bold, centered, and you start saying title. Writer is a wordprocessor, it can be used to write text documents from a simple letter to novels.
The pdfs are up to date for the second edition of the book and the wiki is. Welcome to for dummies, your friendly companion to the free office suite. In this book, we explain in plain english how to make the. Ooo is both a software product and a community of volunteers. If you want to print a copy, your pdf viewer should have an between an automatic or manual transition, and how long you want refer to chapter 1 introducing openoffice. Ooo, commonly known as openoffice, is a discontinued open source office. Oct 07, 2005 if you want to learn more about programming in openoffice. The apache openoffice user forum is an user to user help and discussion forum for exchanging information and tips with other users of apache openoffice, the open source office suite. This is not a book about using the programs contained in the open office suite. You can view a list of all subpages under the book main page not including the book main page itself, regardless of whether theyre categorized, here. The introduction of in the brussels public administration.
Home, email in the header of this template are automatically filled with the information from toolsoptions. If youre considering jumping the microsoft office ship, but are worried about the quality of the other players, read this introduction to staroffice 6. This book starts by giving an overview of the language and its structure, before detailing the various commands and functions that are available in openoffice. Extensive examples are provided to help you quickly develop your own openoffice. How to use openoffice to write a book pen and the pad. This book provides a general introduction to the openoffice. It was an opensourced version of the earlier staroffice, which sun microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. There are many programs aside from microsoft word that can be used to format a novel and they range from affordable to quite expensive. This category contains pages that are part of the openoffice. Ooo, commonly known as openoffice, is a discontinued opensource office. It was an opensourced version of the earlier staroffice, which sun microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use openoffice included a word processor writer, a spreadsheet calc, a presentation application impress, a drawing application draw, a formula editor math, and a database. Writer is a featurerich tool for creating letters, books, reports. Mar 14, 2008 here, we look at the basics of all of the openoffice.
To create this article, 11 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. An introduction is the first book in professor steinbergs using apache openoffice. Despite some naysayers out there on the web, the internal pdf exporter works fine. A pdf of this chapter is available from this wiki page. Calc is a spreadsheet program, it can be used to store, process, and present data and formats them in a table layout. When working with databases, you will come to a point where the basic features are not sufficient. This pdf is designed to be read onscreen, two pages at a time.
It is, instead, a manual for using open office basic, one of the macro programs. Otherwise, openoffice writer is quite a nice environment to write a book in. The book also covers general topics such as setting up and customising openoffice. A guide to writer, the word processor component of openoffice.
James steinberg, gold turtle publishing, december 2012, isbn 9781481270939 this book starts by giving an overview of the language and its structure, before detailing the various commands and functions that are available in openoffice. Instructor resources are free to course adopters and granted by your sales representative. Student resources are included with the purchase of a new text or ebook, otherwise they may be purchased separately. Its three main distinguishing characteristics are that it handles opens and creates microsoft office formats, as well as nearly 200 other. It is designed to teach you what you really need to know about openoffice. The underlying data structure is discussed and techniques are introduced to evaluate openoffice objects, facilitating the use of returned objects in.
Apache and the apache feather logos are trademarks of the apache software foundation. To get the most out of this book, you should be familiar with other programming languages. Here, we look at the basics of all of the openoffice. It is based on an original french document written for openoffice.
Introduction wikibooks, open books for an open world. For example, you may decide to change the indentation of all paragraphs or change the font of all titles. If a page of the book isnt showing here, please add text bookcat to the end of the page concerned. The fields first name, last name, street, city, state, zip code, tel. Apache openoffice is living in interesting times, and this is a good moment to reflect on future scenarios. I understand you did the hard copy of the book first.
For dummies and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. In my personal experience, it helped me tremendously with writing to be able to see each page at a normal book size rather than the 8. Numerous examples and explanations demonstrate proper techniques and discuss known problems and solutions. Boost your confidence with this free open source software and get a head start on your career. Openoffice is free open source software that you can use to write and format your book. It possesses many of the same daytoday capabilities as microsoft office, except. Tutorials view forum apache openoffice community forum. This introduction, available online under openoffice uni.
For a long document, this simple task can be prohibitive. Saving, opening, printing 5 introduction to openoffice writer by chris tutorials. In this orientation module you will gain basic familiarity with the apache software foundation and how it works, get signed up for various important online project services, and introduce yourself to the other volunteers on the projects mailing mailing list. This book provides an introduction to the creation and management of macros in openoffice.
Mar 22, 2020 wikihow is a wiki, similar to wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are cowritten by multiple authors. This document is updated frequently so check back frequently. Shortcuts 4 introduction to openoffice writer by chris tutorials. If you are using the previous edition, visit introduction to kinesiology, fourth edition. These free openoffice tutorials are designed for anyone who is interested in making the shift from microsoft office to openoffice. Staroffice essentials introduction to staroffice 6. The first thing you will need to do is set the size of your book. This document aims to provide an overview of the technologies related to the integration of the addressbook feature into openoffice.
This book concentrates on one of those languages openoffice. Well be carrying out some scheduled maintenance on saturday, may 2, 12 am est and wont be able to take orders. We provide free online pdf manuals for software and applications. Introduction to word processing modifying a document changing document views and using zoom. Part of the ifip international federation for information processing book series. If you want to learn more about programming in openoffice. Since then, sun has been working on staroffice, and an organization of open source. Tutorial introduction into object inspection with mri by rudolfo thu mar 22, 2012 1. Openoffice writer, and then use the internal export to pdf function. Tutorial introduction into object inspection with mri by rudolfo. This book provides a focused introduction to the most important features of openoffice. The pdfs are up to date for the second edition of the book, and the wiki pages for this chapter have been updated. As part of an academic series written on alternative technology, this text presents key information on open office and encourages handson learning throughout the material.