Since the two programs are very similar in most functionality, you can also ask questions of the site users there: OpenOffice has its own official forum as well. Links to all of these can be found on the site’s homepage: įor online resources, NeoOffice maintains a user forum and a wiki where you can ask specific questions of the many users and volunteers who participate there. You can download any of them free as PDFs, or you can purchase the printed books from for a reasonable price. OOoAuthors is a group of volunteers who have written a plethora of great books on the OpenOffice component applications. Her book is called “ 2 Guidebook” and is the definitive reference on the software:

Solveig’s blog offers useful tips every day: Without participating in these, or without any training to accompany the switch, I can see why you and your colleagues would be frustrated! I hope I can help you all cross over the transition period to smooth sailing beyond.įor manuals, I suggest Solveig Haugland’s and the OOoAuthors Project’s manuals. I’m happy to help you find the NeoOffice (and related OpenOffice) online communities. I sent the following in an email to give them the resources they need to get comfortable with their new software, and I’m posting it here in case it is useful for others in a similar situation: Thus, they have had some frustrations with the migration.

The district has migrated to NeoOffice on all its computers (Macs, of course), but did not implement training or documentation for the new users. Recently, I’ve been in contact with an Ohio school district through an educational technology mailing list. NeoOffice Resources Roundup December 2nd, 2008 Benjamin Horst You are currently browsing the archives for the Mac category.

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