Suggestions Blog

If you have a suggestion for an advanced book or another type of book, please post a comment here. I'm not positive that there is a market for the book; you can see more content here with my training materials.

If you find an error in the book, please post a comment here. I can't make any guarantees about when the corrections will be made, but I will do my best.

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Comments

[Daniel Feiglin]

1. Order no. ....8523 arrived today in good order. Thanks.
2. The first things I looked for were ...in Appendix B - Advanced Topics. Instead of going into a plethora of minor details, let me suggest a Volume 2 - Advanced topics for professional users (I'm a Tech Writer). It should specifically include DTP issues such as doc version/change control etc..
3. From a cursory review of the book, I think that most of the questions (annoyances) arising from migration from MS Word 2k under Win 2k or Linux/CXoffice - are covered.
4. I looked at http://www.getopenoffice.org/workbooks.html
I don't know what's in the Advanced book, nor do I intend to fork out $22 for a 154 page workbook when what I need is more like "Guidebook".
5. Apart from your own blog, is there a list/blog for handling newbie questions of the "how do you ..." variety?

[Solveig]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your comments.

>>I don't know what's in the Advanced book, nor do I intend to fork out $22 for a 154 page workbook when what I need is more like "Guidebook".

At
http://www.getopenoffice.org/workbooks.html you can click on the TOC link for any workbook and see the topics covered in that book.

For an advanced book, take a look at Jean Weber's Writer book, if you're not interested in my Professional Writer workbook.

"OpenOffice.org Writer: The Free Alternative to Microsoft Word"

>>5. Apart from your own blog, is there a list/blog for handling newbie questions of the "how do you ..." variety?

You can subscribe to and submit questions to the [email protected] mailing list.

[Bill Roberts]

Documentation about how to use a database is sorely lacking. How can I set up events for button presses? How do I do complex reports (with group headers and footers as well as overall report headers and footers? Basically, I would like to see some intermediate level documentation for the database portion of OO.

[Solveig]

Hi Bill,

I do have some coverage of that in my Databases and Mail Merges workbook.

http://www.cafepress.com/getopenoffice.162066646
http://getopenoffice.org/tocs/databases20toc.pdf

You can also see a reports article.
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/03/techtargetcom_a.html

However, the main issue is that the report tool is just not very robust yet.

I'll try to blog on your questions in the next week or two. Thanks for your suggestions.

Solveig

[Silvio Grosso]

Hello,
First of all thanks a lot for your guidebook.
I am interested in knowing if a new edition is going to be released?
Maybe after the release of OpenOffice 3 in September where a bunch of new features are going to be included (e.g the import of pdf).
Best regards
Silvio

[Solveig]

Hi Silvio,

Thanks! Yes, I'll be updating it with the 3.0 version. PDF Import is going to be huge!

Solveig

[Newton]

I would like to see a book, entitled " Real Database Aplications, only with Open Source Software" !

[Solveig]

Hi Newton,

Thanks for the suggestion. This is a popular idea; I'm going to see what the tools are like in 3.0 and proceed from there.

Solveig

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