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Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org All In One Review by W Boudville
free and almost as capable
Tired of paying tribute to the latest Microsoft Office suite? Each year or so, Microsoft Office comes out with an upgrade. Usually, powerful new features are introduced. But haven't you wondered how many of these, or indeed of existing features, do you actually use?
Herein, the book shows you a viable and free alternative. Perry does say forthrightly that Microsoft Office has more features than OpenOffice, and for certain operations, is easier to use. (Fewer steps.)
But he then goes onto explain the very many existing capabilities of OpenOffice. You should see right up that the Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw are very polished. A lot of thought has gone into making the usability as easy as possible. Hopefully, the book might indicate that OpenOffice's choices of menus and actions is very intuitive. Its designers do not want to cede any ground to Microsoft on the usability issues.
One thing to note is that you can experiment, by just trying out one of the OpenOffice packages, in lieu of its Microsoft counterpart. While still using the rest of the Microsoft suite. A low risk approach, backed up by the book's advice on the program you're testing.