Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional [Paperback]

If you want to fly with OpenOffice 3.0, publish to your local wiki, create web presentations, or add maps to your documents, Beginning OpenOffice 3 is the book for you. You will arm yourself with OpenOffice.org 3.0 tools, from creating wiki docs to automating complex design steps. OpenOffice has been downloaded almost 100 million times, and this is the book that explains why.

• You learn how to adopt OpenOffice 3.0 innovations.
• You see how to work across Windows, OS X, Google, and the Web, no matter what the format.
• Mail merges and wiki docs will never seem so simple.

The Applications.- Writer: Basic Documents.- Design Using Writer.- Writer Automation.- Spreadsheets with Calc.- Impress: Stylish Presentations.- Creative Draw.- Turn Data into Information with Base.- Working Across Applications.- Building Web Pages.- Working with Others.- Linking and Embedding.- Extensions.Andy Channelle is a writer, designer, and educator. He has written for Linux Format, MacFormat, 3D World, and lots of other publications since the mid-1990s. He is a media educator and most recently successfully migrated to university teaching, working as a visiting lecturer/instructor in journalism and new media at the University of the West of England. Outside of these areas, he is also a new media consultant at Spike Island (www.spikeisland.org.uk) and has been intimately involved in the architecture, design, and deployment of the institution's new Drupal-based web site. Andy also holds a master's degree in new media.If you want to fly with Open. Office 3.0, publish to your local wiki, create web presentations, or add maps to your documents, Beginning Open. Office 3 is the book for you.