Beginning OpenOffice 3 - (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) by Andy Channelle (Paperback)

About the Book

For anyone wanting to publish to a local wiki, create Web presentations, or add maps to their documents, this book shows them how to arm themselves with new OpenOffice.org 3.0 tools, from creating wiki docs to automating complex design steps.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.