Sandals and all: A review of "Point & Click OpenOffice.org"
Robin Miller is after your granny. Again. He's trying to entice her with the delights of free open source software. He's trying to make it look easy and fun to play around with open source. First, there was his Point & Click Linux book. Now he's out trying to tempt the uninitiated with an alternative office productivity via his new book, Point & Click OpenOffice.org. When is someone going to put a stop to it?
Hopefully, not for a while. As with his Linux book, Robin Miller's Point & Click OpenOffice.org, published by Prentice Hall PTR, is a user guide aimed at demonstrating to the most basic computer users that computers and office productivity software can be their friends, not some mysterious tool for hypercaffeinated teenagers only. The book is short and sweet and to the point, and tends to provide users just enough information to let them get started with OOo. The book is not intended to be a comprehensive reference manual on using OOo, but instead is intended to provide newbies with the just the basic overview that they will need to do some guided exploring on their own. An instructional video in the form of a CD accompanies the book, and gives newbies an idea of what IT WILL ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE to do most of the stuff that the book discusses. If you were looking for the simplest, most straightforward office productivity software user guide available for the most timid beginning users, this book is the tool you were after. Much of the skills learned here will be transferable to the dominant product, Microsoft Office.
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