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Another free books from our long time contributor, Wily Yuen.

The first one is OpenOffice.org’s Getting Started, the Second Edition. It’s a beginners introduction book on OpenOffice (wiki), a fully featured office suite just like Microsoft Office. It supports Microsoft Office format files (.doc, .xls, .ppt), and runs on Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. And of course, it’s free.

OpenOffice.org’s Getting Started was written by a group of volunteer reviewers, writers, editors and translators from the OpenOffice.org community working through OOoAuthors.org.

This book deals with all the basics of increasing your productivity with OpenOffice 2.0.

The first part will show the reader on how to install, start and set up the software. The second part will introduce the reader to every piece of OpenOffice prides:
- Writer, the word processor (nice!)
- Calc, the spreadsheet
- Draw, the vector drawing tool
- Impress, the slide presentation tool
- Base, a database system
- Math, a mathematic equation editor

The third part, continues utilizing Writer, preparing the reader to work with document templates, styles, gallery, creating and editing Fontwork objects, and saving documents as webpages.

As you can already figured, this book is basically one big OpenOffice tutorial, filled with step-by-step instruction, tips and tricks. It’s repleted with colorful figures and screenshots, so readers will have little to worry about losing their way reading this book.

Highly recommended for those who want to find an alternative office suite other than Microsoft Office.

How to get the book

Printed copies of this book are now available at Lulu.com. Profits from the sale of this book will be used to benefit the community in ways to be determined by the members of OOoAuthors.

A full PDF version of the book can be downloaded from here.

The FreeTechBook’s link is here.

The next book from Wily Yuen will be on the next post