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On 16 Oct 2008 at 14:21, JOE Conner wrote: ... .. Why implement an unnecessary learning curve? Ummm, because you can sell lots of (re-)training courses, documentation and certification? Suggesting no names of course :-) -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED]Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Many thanks for your help, Victor Foose from Pennsylvania ([EMAIL PROTECTED])BRBRBR I answered this already, back on the 16th. I am pasting in my answer on that date: TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries wrote: From: JOE Conner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:32 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Reference material for the user... There is plenty of online documentation. For instance, to to: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html or http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html or http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manua l and many others. I visited all three links, and I see no docs for OO 3. Are my eyes simply missing something? Thanks, Elchanan My guess - since v3.0 just came out it will take months before user documentation is updated to reflect v3.0. Usually there is little change to documentation necessary. In other words, documentation relative to v1.4 is still largely applicable to v3.0. The method of accomplishing a specific task is usually not changed. Why implement an unnecessary learning curve? New features need to be documented, and the documentation incorporated within the user manuals. That will take awhile. Your original question was: QUOTE My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. END QUOTE. I stand by my original answer. Maybe I should have answered your question with the one word answer YES which would have been technically correct, but not of much help. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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2008/10/17 JOE Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Many thanks for your help, Victor Foose from Pennsylvania ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])BRBRBR I answered this already, back on the 16th. I am pasting in my answer on that date: TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries wrote: From: JOE Conner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:32 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Reference material for the user... There is plenty of online documentation. For instance, to to: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html or http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html or http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manua l and many others. I visited all three links, and I see no docs for OO 3. Are my eyes simply missing something? Thanks, Elchanan My guess - since v3.0 just came out it will take months before user documentation is updated to reflect v3.0. Usually there is little change to documentation necessary. In other words, documentation relative to v1.4 is still largely applicable to v3.0. The method of accomplishing a specific task is usually not changed. Why implement an unnecessary learning curve? New features need to be documented, and the documentation incorporated within the user manuals. That will take awhile. Your original question was: QUOTE My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. END QUOTE. I stand by my original answer. Maybe I should have answered your question with the one word answer YES which would have been technically correct, but not of much help. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA My guess is that most new OOo 3 users will find the individual chapters and appendices available for download as pdf files via http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/index.html a good start, until more detailed manuals can be produced. And hopefully, as Gary says, it will soon be possible to download the entire book in one fell swoop Henri
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- Original Message - From: M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/10/17 JOE Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Many thanks for your help, Victor Foose from Pennsylvania ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])BRBRBR snipped There is plenty of online documentation. For instance, to to: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html or http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html or http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manua l snipped My guess is that most new OOo 3 users will find the individual chapters and appendices available for download as pdf files via http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/index.html a good start, until more detailed manuals can be produced. And hopefully, as Gary says, it will soon be possible to download the entire book in one fell swoop Henri I did not want to give this email the 2-3 line link directly to the search results; BUT if you go to http://www.lulu.com and search for OpenOffice there are printed books available. This company prints books on demand so the low-volume subjects are available to people that would not if you have to print 10,000 or more to go to the big book stores. I do remember seeing links to books that went to the author's web sites. Many of these books are found on LULU.com and other print-on-demand sites. I figure the quickest way to get a 3.0 version book will be at one of these sites. There is a 3.0 book at LULU.com already A Conceptual Guide to OpenOffice.org 3 $29.50 284 pages - paperback http://www.lulu.com/content/3158571 from LULU.com A Conceptual Guide to OpenOffice.org 3 is an easy-to-read, thorough, self-paced guide to using the most popular open source office productivity suite. Written by an educator who is passionate about lifelong learning, this book is based upon teaching material he has developed over four years for instructional use in the classroom. This 284-page guide provides instruction for Writer, Calc, Impress and Base through ten hands-on lessons and four quick reference guides. New topics in this edition include installation instructions for the OpenOffice.org native Mac OS X port, installation and use of OpenOffice.org extensions, an overview of the OpenDocument format and much more. Internet access is required to download the necessary lesson files and free OpenOffice.org software. So, if you want to read the docs on your computer, there are a lot of free PDF files from OOo's web site, and others. If you want printed books for ver 3.0, go to the print-on-demand sites. I buy some books at Amazon.com and BN.com that are actually print-on-demand books/titles. I have had no troubles. You might want to give it a try. I am thinking about buying the book myself and showing it to my group of people that I am getting to change to OOo. Might be another selling point to be able to order printed books. Tim L. retired but still working hard - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Many thanks, James, for this information.? I went to the website that you referenced, and it provides many references which appear to satisfy my needs!? Thanks again, Victor -Original Message- From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 3:39 pm Subject: Re: [users] Reference material for the user... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Take a look here: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html
[users] Reference material for the user...
I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Many thanks for your help, Victor Foose from Pennsylvania ([EMAIL PROTECTED])BRBRBR **BRNew MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News amp; more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew0002)/HTML
Re: [users] Reference material for the user...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. There is plenty of online documentation. For instance, to to: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html or http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html or http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual and many others. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Take a look here: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello, there is lot of reference material on the web online, for example documentation project http://documentation.openoffice.org/ blog http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/openoffice_books/ or books here: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html#oob http://www.amazon.com/OpenOffice-org-Dummies-Gurdy-Leete/dp/076454 etc. I think, you can find a lot of more doc Regards Jan On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Many thanks for your help, Victor Foose from Pennsylvania ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])BRBRBR **BRNew MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News amp; more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew0002)/HTML -- S pozdravem Jan Beránek
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new notebook computer. I asked a friend where I could get a reasonable word processing, etc. package for my new computer. He highly recommended using the Open Office Suite. I went to your website and am very impressed! At work I've been used to using the Micorsoft suite of software products, for which I can get/have a good base of reference material. My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. Many thanks for your help, Victor Foose from Pennsylvania ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Welcome, and yes, there's a wealth of information available, mostly free. Here's a link to something that's a good beginning: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0100GS-GettingStarted.pdf Other more detailed guides are available at this ooauthors2 link, and there are other sources, too, like this wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: JOE Conner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:32 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Reference material for the user... There is plenty of online documentation. For instance, to to: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html or http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html or http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manua l and many others. I visited all three links, and I see no docs for OO 3. Are my eyes simply missing something? Thanks, Elchanan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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TechAdmin @ VibrantLivingMinistries wrote: From: JOE Conner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:32 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Reference material for the user... There is plenty of online documentation. For instance, to to: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html or http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html or http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manua l and many others. I visited all three links, and I see no docs for OO 3. Are my eyes simply missing something? Thanks, Elchanan My guess - since v3.0 just came out it will take months before user documentation is updated to reflect v3.0. Usually there is little change to documentation necessary. In other words, documentation relative to v1.4 is still largely applicable to v3.0. The method of accomplishing a specific task is usually not changed. Why implement an unnecessary learning curve? New features need to be documented, and the documentation incorporated within the user manuals. That will take awhile. Your original question was: QUOTE My question is, is there good reference material for the use of Open Office Suite software? I'm referring to books, etc... I ask this question because there are always times when we need good help to solve a problem...that is for cases when the help menu just isn't good enough. END QUOTE. I stand by my original answer. Maybe I should have answered your question with the one word answer YES which would have been technically correct, but not of much help. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
