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Writer is a full featured word processor that is both user friendly and professional quality. Writer easily integrates with any Microsoft Word documents that you may already have.	Calc is a spreadsheet program that provides profesional quality spreadsheets, charts and formaulas for building any business applications. Calc easily integrates with Excel.
Draw is a image editing program that provides an interface to create and edit images in many different formats. Draw also has a 3D interface which allows manipulationof 3D images.	Learn how to create a professional database in 5 minutes. The Book will show you how to also create a MySQL database on a Windows computer and network it with Linux workstations.
Impress gives you a presentation program that allows you to create professional slide presentatiosn with images, text and animation. Impress intgrates easily with Power Point.	Build your own web site with this powerful yet easy to use HTML editor. Templates help you put together a website in minutes.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Chapter 1 Writer in 5 Minutes 7

Chapter 2 Optimize the Interface 13

Chapter 3 Letter Template 14

Chapter 4 Character Formatting 21

Character Formatting Window 26

Chapter 5 Paragraph Formatting 29

Indenting 29

Tab Settings 30

Paragraph Format Window 30

Vertical Text Alignment 32

Line Numbering 33

Paragraph Tabs 34

Drop Caps 34

Paragraph Borders 35

Background 36

Numbering 39

Bullets 40

Outlining 41

Adding Numbered Lines 43

Chapter 6 Page Layout 45

Using Headers and Footers 48

Page Orientation 55

Vertical Text 55

Chapter 7 Styles 59

Create a New Page Style 59

Creating a New Paragraph Style 63

Chapter 8 Templates 65

Making Font Changes 65

Creating a New Template 65

Creating a Document with a Template 66

Chapter 9 Inserting Objects 67

Inserting a Hyperlink 67

Inserting Graphics 68

Inserting Tables 73

Chapter 10 Converting Microsoft Files 77

Opening a Microsoft Word Document in Writer 77

Open on a Linux Machine 77

Open on Windows Machine with OpenOffice 78

Saving a File Created in Writer as a Word Document 79

Chapter 11 Keyboard Shortcuts 81

Chapter 12 Calc in 5 Minutes 83

Chapter 13 Create a Spreadsheet 89

Chapter 14 Entering Data 93

Merging Cells 95

Change Vertical Alignment 97

Change background color 97

Create borders 98

Editing Text/Data 98

AutoFill 99

Chapter 15 AutoFormat 101

Create Your Own AutoFormat 102

Chapter 16 Cell Attributes 105

Chapter 17 Formatting the Page 110

Using Headers and Footers 112

Page Breaks 116

Chapter 18 Styles 120

Create Your Own Style 121

Page Styles 123

Chapter 19 Templates 126

Making Changes 126

Creating a New Template 127

Creating a Document with a Template 128

Using Themes 129

Chapter 20 Formulas 130

Basic Operators 130

Order of Calculations 131

Create Manual Formulas 132

Using Function AutoPilot 134

Relative vs. Absolute Cell References 136

Auto Update 137

Using the IF Function 137

Chapter 21 Inserting Objects 140

Inserting Charts 140

Modify Charts 143

Adding a 3D Chart 150

Changing Default Chart Colors 153

Inserting Graphics 154

Chapter 22 Keyboard Shortcuts 157

Chapter 23 Draw in 5 Minutes 161

Using the Toolbar to Create Objects 161

Chapter 24 Creating a New Drawing 167

Image Formats 167

Page Setup 167

Format an Area 169

Inserting an Object 176

Manipulating Objects 177

Morphing Objects 179

Formatting Lines 180

Formatting Text 182

Snapping Objects to a Grid 189

Chapter 25 Image Editing 192

Crop an Image 193

Using Filters 194

Chapter 26 Draw Projects 198

Chapter 27 Impress in 5 Minutes 200

Chapter 28 The Toolbar in Impress 206

Inserting Objects 210

Animation Effects 214

Objects and Text Follow a Path 217

Chapter 29 Create a Presentation 220

Adding Text 222

Character Formatting Window 224

Text Effects 226

Bulleted Lists 228

Outlining 231

Views 233

Layers 235

Chapter 30 Web in 5 Minutes 238

Inserting Hyperlinks 244

Creating a Hyperlink to Graphics 245

Linking to Targets 245

Adding Email Hyperlinks 247

Inserting a Table 248

Chapter 31 Databases in 5 Minutes 252

Entering Records 254

Creating a Form to View Data 256

Chapter 32 Database Project 264

Setting Up Windows Database: 264

Setting Up Network Access 272

Security 275

Chapter 33 MySQL in 5 Minutes 279

MySQL Administrative Control: 284

MySQL Input Line Editor 285

Logical Operators 288