Re: getting started with OOo

[Chuck Murray <Charles -dot- Murray -at- oracle -dot- com>]

> I want to start using OOo. I've got the install file, the install
> guide, and some templates that looked interesting/useful. Is there
> anything else I should get or that any of you have found useful?
> I've never used OOo before, but I'm pretty good with MS Office.

In addition to the excellent suggestions already given, let me mention 
my OpenOffice Writer 1.1 tutorial, a set of files packaged in a single 
ZIP file. The tutorial could be done as a self-administered thing, or it 
could be delivered as an instructor-led workshop. The README.txt file 
contains instructions, as well as terms of the "copyleft" licensing, 
which means you're free to use and even modify (within certain 
guidelines) the tutorial as you wish. My Writer tutorial is roughly 
patterned after a Microsoft Word workshop that I developed and have 
delivered at two colleges. The Writer tutorial assumes some word 
processor experience, and it's designed to make it easy for "average 
users" to move easily from Word to Writer, or to use both applications 
comfortably.

To get my Writer tutorial, go to http://blackboard.neu.edu and log in as 
username = schmoe and password = joe; click Chuck Murray's Tech Writing 
Courses; click Course Documents; open the folder for the OpenOffice / 
StarOffice Writer Tutorial, and download the oo_writer_files.zip file.

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