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The OpenOffice.org Office Suite
The OpenOffice.org
Office Suite
OpenOffice.org is a powerful Linux office suite that offers tools for all types of
office tasks, such as writing texts, working with spreadsheets, or creating graph-
ics and presentations. With OpenOffice.org, use the same data across different
computing platforms. You can also open and edit files in Microsoft Office formats
then save them back to this format, if needed. This chapter only covers the basic
skills needed to get started with OpenOffice.org.
3.1 The OpenOffice.org Quickstarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.2 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
3.3 Managing the Transition from Microsoft Office . . . . . 60
3.4 Changing the Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.5 Word Processing with OpenOffice.org Writer . . . . . . 63
3.6 Spreadsheets with OpenOffice.org Calc . . . . . . . . . . 68
3.7 Creating Graphics Using OpenOffice.org Draw . . . . . 73
3.8 Creating Presentations with OpenOffice.org Impress . . 74