migrate from Microsoft Office?

Wow, what a pretty cover! Certainly entices you to thumb the pages. It is clearly meant to portray OpenOffice as something easy. But what about the actual contents of the book?

The chances are good that you are already acquainted with Microsoft Office, and have thus invested some time in garnering expertise with its sundry parts. If so, none of the concepts in this book should be new to you. The ideas of writing and manipulating text in OpenOffice Writer, by cutting and pasting, or changing fonts, for instance, have exact equivalents in MS Word. But more than just the ideas, the actual operations are just as straightforward. This way, if you migrate, you can carry over much of your hard earned expertise.

Some OpenOffice proponents might claim that its usage is simpler. Perhaps. Keep in mind that the slender length of this book is because the authors deliberately eshewed a comprehensive explanation of OpenOffice. Instead, they cover the most common aspects that you are likely to need.

The book also stresses that OpenOffice can read and write documents written in Microsoft's doc format. This compatibility means you can try out OpenOffice with actual data files with no risk.

Other Reviews

• Good introduction but much more powerful than presented here
• Good Introduction, But Lacks the Depth of a User's Manual
• Explores the features of this powerful program and shows how to use existing skills to make the most of it
• Point & Click OpenOffice.org!
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