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July 16th, 2010 
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Make the most of StarOffice 5.1, the incredibly versatile productivity suite, with StarOffice For LINUX For Dummies. Built for use on a variety of operating systems, StarOffice is best known for being the most popular suite available on LINUX; and even if you don’t use a LINUX-based operating system exclusively, you get expert advice on importing and exporting your Microsoft Office documents easily.
Prepare to go well beyond the issues of accessibility. With StarOffice For LINUX For Dummies, you can quickly immerse yourself in the wide array of sophisticated tools that StarOffice has to offer. You discover your many options for formatting text and creating styles, effects, and visuals with StarWriter. With StarCalc, you can produce professional-quality spreadsheets and discover the formula tips that will keep your numbers crunching. In addition, the many secrets of StarDraw, StarImpress, StarSchedule, and StarBase are revealed to you with friendly advice and helpful suggestions.
StarOffice For LINUX For Dummies can help you make the StarDesktop as familiar as any other desktop you’ve used in the past. Best of all, almost everything about StarOffice for LINUX will transfer to all the other versions of StarOffice, including Windows, OS/2, and Sun Solaris. Even if you get tired of using StarOffice for LINUX, this …For Dummies® title will keep on working for you.
Amazon.com Review
StarOffice for Linux for Dummies provides basic how-to information on one of the most popular productivity suites for the Linux operating system. If you need to know how to do pretty much anything with StarOffice at the user level (as opposed to the administrator level or the developer level), you’ll appreciate the succinct explanations and numerous graphics this book provides.
The author focuses on StarOffice 5.1 for Linux (that’s the version that appears in all of this book’s illustrations), but he pays some attention to StarOffice for Windows and other operating systems–the procedures for all versions are generally identical. There’s information on installing StarOffice under Linux and some advice on ways to share data files with people who use other kinds of productivity software.
StarOffice for Linux for Dummies takes a basic approach to its subject, documenting the StarOffice programs’ features one at a time. Usually, the book employs a step-by-step approach, telling the reader to do something and then explaining what the software does in response. Where there are options, it uses bulleted lists to explain how they compare to each other. –David Wall
Topics covered: StarWriter, StarCalc, StarBase, StarImpress, StarImage, StarDraw, StarSchedule, and the suite’s Internet tools.
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StarOffice is a very powerful program that has received little attention. The program is a free download from Sun, but the online help isn’t very helpful. StarLinux for Dummies (it works just a well for Windows–the version I am using) is very clear. It answered every question I had with a minimum of searching and fuss. Once you get familiar with StarOffice you might want a book that digs deeper, but this book is a great place to start and most users won’t need to know any more than it covers to work comfortably and productively with StarOffice. I recommend that you take a look at StarOffice (particularly if you’ve had enough of Microsoft). Anyone who uses Microsoft Office will find StarOffice a worthy competitor. Michael Meadhra’s book will make the transition painless.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Dummies routine is becomimg a bit tiresome. This book offers very little to the user, besides simple processes that most people could figure out on their own.
I once advocated the benefits of the “Dummy” line of books – but more and more – it appears to me that the authors and editors are just Cntrl-X/Cntrl-V(cut and pasting) parts of other books into the newer ones.
If you want to get your feet wet and not expose yourself to a wonderful program – buy this book.
But if you want to see the power of Star Office – look elsewhere and be brave and pick up a non-dummy/idiot book.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’m Sys Admin in a Medium-sized firm where people have average IT skills, and this is perfect for people who just want to learn how to perform the basic day-to-day tasks on Star Office. It explains things quite clearly and simply and it’s easy to find the answers to quick questions. However, it’s not particularly detailed, so you will need something more substantial as an overall reference.
Rating: 4 / 5