Microsoft Office users moving to OpenOffice.org will quickly become productive using the number one Open Source Office productivity suite. The course focuses on differences between the various Office suites and explains key OpenOffice.org functionality which will allow student to efficiently create text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.Microsoft Office users moving to OpenOffice.org will quickly become productive using the number one Open Source Office productivity suite. The course focuses on differences between the various Office suites and explains key OpenOffice.org functionality which will allow student to efficiently create text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

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Microsoft Office end users who have migrated or are consider moving to OpenOffice.org. Business professionals evaluating OpenOffice.org as an alternative to Microsoft Office.

To succeed fully in this course, students should have:

• Familiarity with the Microsoft Office XP or 2003 products: Word, Excel, and
• Powerpoint

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Explain the benefits of OpenOffice.org
• Use OpenOffice.org Help
• Open Microsoft Office documents with OpenOffice.org
• Convert Microsoft Office documents to OpenOffice.org documents
• Save OpenOffice.org documents as Microsoft Office documents
• Understand the differences and similarities between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org
• Use the Writer application to create, format and edit text documents
• Use the Calc application to create spreadsheets
• Use the Impress application to create presentations

Module 1 - Introduction to OpenOffice.org

• What makes OpenOffice.org different
• Starting OpenOffice.org
• Getting Help
• Parts of the Main Window
• Templates
• The Gallery
• Defining General Settings for OpenOffice.org
• Creating a New Document
• Opening an Existing Document
• Preparing a Document for Review
• Document Exchange with Microsoft Office Users
• Closing OpenOffice.org
• Learning Check

• Working with Text in a Document
• Language Tools
• Selecting Text
• Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
• Using the Formatting Toolbar
• Paragraphs
• Bullets and Numbered Lists
• Sections
• Styles
• Mail Merge
• Tables
• Images
• Navigator
• Changing Page Orientation
• Adding New Pages to a Document
• Adding Headers and Footers
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Learning Check

• The Formula Bar
• Using the Navigator
• Speeding Up Data Entry
• Removing Data from a Cell
• Cutting, Copying, and Pasting
• Paste Special
• Styles in Calc
• Conditional Formatting
• Filtering Data
• Creating Functions
• Absolute and Relative References
• The Detective
• Charts
• Protecting Sheets and Cells from Changes
• DataPilot

• The Main Impress Window
• Adding, Renaming, and Removing Slides
• Creating Slides from an Outline
• Styles in Impress
• Master Slides
• Inserting a Chart
• Inserting the Contents of a File
• Using Slide Transitions
• Using Slide Animations
• Using Interactions
• Printing a Brochure