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Get the 278 Page book and OpenOffice 2 for only $24.94 Compatible with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Access Runs on Windows, Linux or Solaris	278 Pages of Training Over 686 Images and illustrations Covers Writer, Calc, Draw, Database, Impress and Web Everything you need to get up to speed quickly.
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. Tutorial New Feature - Tables inside of Tables	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. .
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.

The purpose of this book is to provide basic and practical instruction for the use of the OpenOffice suite. Realizing that readers learn differently and that readers come to the book with various needs, this book provides a 5 prong approach to learning OpenOffice.
New Feature Review
OpenOffice 2 offers significant new features which will be reviewed with each major Book Section.
Five Minute Quick Start
Each major section begins with a Five Minute Quick Start that should let you function with the application in five minutes of study.
Progressive Instruction
After the initial quick start the material is organized in a progressive manner so that individual segments of learning can be tackled and create building blocks for more advanced subjects. This reference material is supported with examples along the way.
Practical Projects
The third principal that will help the user is the projects that are designed to get the user involved in creating useful results quickly. These projects will be step by step from beginning to the end.
CD Training
The training on the CD that comes with this book is written with flash and audio and will run on any operating system in the web browser that has the flash plug-in installed . The training will both reinforce aspects of the book and it will present new material as well.

These aspects of the design will provide a complete training atmosphere for learning OpenOffice.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Install on Windows
Install on Linux
Program Setup Linux / Windows
Using a Java Runtime
Optimize The Resources
Terminology
Chapter 2 Converting Microsoft Office Files
Chapter 3 OpenOffice Writer
New Features in OpenOffice 2.0
Chapter 4 Writer in 5 Minutes
Chapter 5 Character Formatting
Object Bar Formatting
Character Formatting Window
Chapter 6 Paragraph Formatting
Object Bar Formatting
Bullets and Numbering Formatting
Adding Numbered Lines
Paragraph Format Window
Chapter 7 Page Layout
Organizer
Page
Background
Using Headers and Footers
Borders
Columns
Chapter 8 Styles
Create a New Page Style
Creating a New Paragraph Style
Chapter 9 Templates
Making Font Changes
Creating a New Template
Creating a Document with a Template
Chapter 10 Inserting Objects
Inserting a Hyperlink
Inserting Graphics
Inserting Tables
Inserting Frames
Chapter 11 Letter Template Project
Chapter 12 Mail Merge Project
Create a Database for Customers
Create a Mail Merge for a Business Document
Chapter 13 Converting Files Project
Opening a Microsoft Word Document in Writer
Saving a File Created in Writer as a Word Document
Chapter 14 Keyboard Shortcuts
Chapter 15 OpenOffice Calc
New Features in OpenOffice 2
Chapter 16 Calc in 5 Minutes
Create a Spreadsheet
Chapter 17 Entering Data
Adjusting Column Width
Merging Cells
Change Vertical Alignment
Change background color
Create borders
Editing Text/Data
AutoFill
Chapter 18 AutoFormat
Create Your Own AutoFormat
Chapter 19 Cell Attributes
Chapter 20 Formatting the Page
Using Headers and Footers
Page Breaks
Chapter 21 Calc Styles and Templates
Create Your Own Style
Page Styles
Calc Templates
Making Changes
Creating a New Template
Creating a Spreadsheet with a Template
Using Themes
Chapter 22 Calc Formulas
Basic Operators
Order of Calculations
Create Manual Formulas
Using Function Wizard
Relative vs. Absolute Cell References
Auto Update
Using the IF Function
Chapter 23 Inserting Objects
Inserting Charts
Modify Charts
Adding a 3D Chart
Changing Default Chart Colors
Inserting Graphics
Inserting a Watermark
Chapter 24 Employee Time Sheet Project
Chapter 25 Printing Spreadsheet Project
Chapter 26 Create Personal Budget Project
Chapter 27 Keyboard Shortcuts
Chapter 28 OpenOffice Draw
Chapter 29 Draw in 5 Minutes
Using the Toolbar to Create Objects
Create a Draw Project
Chapter 30 Creating a Drawing
Image Formats
Page Setup
Format an Area
Inserting an Object
Manipulating Objects
Morphing Objects
Formatting Lines
Formatting Text
Snapping Objects to a Grid
Creating Curves
Using the Gallery
Chapter 31 Image Editing
Crop an Image
Using Filters
Chapter 32 Basic Crop Image
Chapter 33 OpenOffice Impress
Chapter 34 Impress in 5 Minutes
Page Setup
Format an Area
Inserting an Object
Manipulating Objects
Formatting Lines
Formatting Text
Using the Toolbar to Create Objects
Creating Curves
Using the Gallery
Animation Effects
Chapter 35 Create a Presentation
Adding Text
Character Formatting Window
Text Effects
Bulleted Lists
Outlining
Views
Chapter 36 OpenOffice Web
Creating a Web Page
Creating a Hyperlink to Graphics
Adding Email Hyperlinks
Inserting a Table
Chapter 37 OpenOffice Database
Chapter 38 Databases in 5 Minutes
Create a Database for Customers
Entering Records
Creating a Form to View Data
Chapter 39 Library Project
Chapter 40 Database Project
Setting Up Windows Database:
Setting Up Network Access
Security