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Documentation and Related Resources
From NeoWiki
In addition to this wiki, there are many places to find documention and other information about using NeoOffice. Many of these resources are written for OpenOffice.org, but most of the time they apply equally as well to NeoOffice. When working with information about OpenOffice.org, remember to use the Command key in NeoOffice when the OpenOffice.org resource mentions the Control key.
The resources below are all in English. Sometimes there are resources available in one language but not another. If you speak or read one of the other languages supported in this wiki, you may want to refer to this article in another language; links are provided at the bottom of the page. Resources specific to a particular module (Writer, Calc, Base, Macros, etc.) are more likely to be listed in the wiki pages dedicated to those modules than here.
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Free User Guides and eBooks
- This is a revision of the OpenOffice.org 2.x Guide, edited by , jgd and other members of the NeoOffice community to apply to directly to NeoOffice. The current document is a draft. If you encounter difficulties with opening the odt.zip files, try downloading them from Safari.
- The official OpenOffice.org User Guide, available in draft form as a PDF.
OOoAuthors.org OpenOffice 2.x Guide
- OOoAuthors has a guide to using OpenOffice.org 2.x, explaining many of the features and common tasks.
OOoAuthors.org Office Migration Guide
- A guide to switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org 2.x, explaining the differences in many of the features and common tasks.
- StarOffice is the commercial version of OpenOffice.org that is sold by Sun Microsystems for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. While there are differences between the two, about 90% of the documentation is directly relevant for NeoOffice 2.x.
Ebooks and Print Books for purchase
A Conceptual Guide to NeoOffice 2 for Mac OS X by R. Gabriel Gurley
- This is the only NeoOffice-specific book that we are aware of, and it is available for purchase as an eBook or a paperback. It is a 288-page guide written by an educator and includes ten hands-on lessons that walk users step-by-step through the creation of various documents.
OpenOffice.org Guidebook by Solveig Haugland
- A comprehensive guidebook by a trainer with extensive experience with OpenOffice.org.
Training Workbooks by Solveig Haugland
- Training workbooks on various modules/functions of OpenOffice.org. Lab files for working through the exercises are available on this page as well.
OpenOffice.org books available from www.lulu.com
- From this site you can purchase print copies of the OpenOffice.org Guide and the OOo Authors guides to the various modules. Other books on OpenOffice.org are also available, in print and/or as a download.
Forums
- The official support forums for NeoOffice.
- The support forums for OpenOffice.org. An exellent source of information and assitance on the various modules of OpenOffice.org (and thus NeoOffice).
Blogs etc.
The blogs below are full of useful articles and tips on using OpenOffice.org.
- A prolific blogger and OpenOffice.org expert. A sampling of blog articles:
- Configuring OpenOffice.org Writer
- What New Users Need to Know About OpenOffice.org
- 11 Tips for Moving to OpenOffice.org
- Back to School with Bibliographies
- Sharing Files Between OpenOffice.org and MS Office
- Fielding Questions, Part 4 - Mail Merges
- That's Your Version: Version Control in OpenOffice.org
- A trainer and expert in OpenOffice.org. Her blog articles cover a wide range of tips and instructions. A sampling of blog articles:
- Publisher Users: Making Postcards, Brochures, and Other Cool Stuff...
- Creating Keyboard Shortcuts in OpenOffice, including Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Styles, a GREAT Feature
- Sample Project for Joining Tables, Regarding Primary Keys
- Creating Calculated Fields in OpenOffice Base
- Using OpenOffice Draw: Creating a Drawing and Exporting the Drawing to GIF, PNG, JPG, or Other Raster Formats
- Technical editor and writer with over 30 years of editing experience. Not precisely a blog. Her site has separate pages for each module, with some links of helpful resources from various places on the net, including articles by Bruce Byfield and Solveig Haugland.
Tutorials
- Visual tutorials from InPics provide tutorials for many common tasks in Writer, Calc, Impress, and Base.
- Screencast-tutorials.com provides online help for OpenOffice.org in the form of Plan-B animated software manuals
Tutorials for Openoffice.org
LearnOpenOffice.org
- Web-based training and streaming video tutorials for OpenOffice.org
Related Articles in the Wiki
Sources of Templates
Sources of Clipart
Documentation/Support for Macros
Related External Links
The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project
- An index of a wide variety of OpenOffice.org documentation and resources. Most of the OpenOffice.org resources listed in Free User Guides and eBooks section can also be accessed from this page. The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project includes links to the following:
- User Manuals
- How Tos
- FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
- Setup Guides
- Application Online Help
- Developer Documentation
- Samples, Templates and Clipart
- Tutorials
- Articles and Reviews
- Documentation from other OpenOffice.org projects
- Third party resources
- OOoForums
- Archive
- A comprehensive list of help resources for OpenOffice.org; if you don't find it here, you might find it there.
- Another page on the official OpenOffice.org site, Links to:
- free community Support,
- commercial support and training,
- OpenOffice.org books, and
- general community resources.
