Prentice Hall Announces Publication of: Point and Click OpenOffice.org

December, 2005-Prentice Hall Announces Publication of: Point & Click
OpenOffice.org!
Authored by Robin "Roblimo" Miller

This book makes learning OpenOffice.org 2.0 easy.... Incredibly easy!

OpenOffice.org 2.0 is all the office productivity software a desktop user
will ever need for a Windows or Linux computer: word processing,
spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, even databases... and it's free! In
this book, OpenOffice.org expert and Open Source Technology Group (OSTG)
editor-in-chief Robin 'Roblimo' Miller teaches OpenOffice.org the easy
way-using the skills any average desktop user already has!

Robin, with input from several expert contributing authors, enables the
reader to become productive in minutes-- which holds true even for novices!
His visual instructions and compact chapters focus on one OpenOffice.org
task at a time... plus, the signature "Point & Click" how-to video tutorials
on CD-ROM present Robin demonstrating 20 essential OpenOffice.org tasks in
bite-sized clips, including: how to add graphics to documents; how to make a
spreadsheet; how to make and print charts and graphs; how to create and
manipulate images; and how to work with slide shows and databases. 

Point & Click OpenOffice.org! readers will master everything from formatting
text documents to creating presentation slide shows and building "what-if"
projections to designing flowcharts. There's even bonus coverage of Firefox
and Thunderbird, the fast, safe, free software for Web browsing and e-mail!

A second CR-ROM bundled with the book contains all the programs discussed:
OpenOffice 2.0 for Windows and Linux, plus the Windows version of the latest
Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email software. 

About the Author: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller is editor-in-chief for OSTG.  He's
written extensively about computers and the Internet for OSTG's sites, as
well as The Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, MIT's Technology Review, and
many other sites and publications. One of modern interactive journalism's
creators, Robin has also authored Point and Click Linux (Prentice Hall,
2004) and The Online Rules of Successful Companies (FT Prentice Hall 2003).


Point & Click OpenOffice.org!  (ISBN 0131879928) has an accompanying
website, featuring a chapter for download at: www.phptr.com/title/0131879928

The book is currently available through major chain and independent
booksellers worldwide and through online vendors at a suggested retail price
of U.S. $29.99.

Early Praise:

"Robin's book comes at the perfect time. With the extremely popular 2.0
release, more people will discover OpenOffice.org's incredible value. A book
like Robin's is important because it helps people master the OpenOffice.org
tools they need to get things done."-Jeffrey Bates, VP Editorial Operations,
cofounder Slashdot.org

"Point & Click OpenOffice.org!" provided the help and made learning
pleasant." -- Grant Fuller, Publications Director, Big Blue & Cousins: The
Greater Victoria PC Users' Association 

"Point & Click OpenOffice.org can be your portal to OpenOffice.org, opening
the door to the power of this office suite."--- Clint Tinsley, Editor, Bits
and Pieces, Idaho PC Users Group

"Robin 'Roblimo' Miller and the contributing authors handle OpenOffice.org
like real pros." -- Robert Pritchett, MPN, LLC, Publisher- macCompanion

"I would recommend Point & Click OpenOffice.org! for anyone looking to get
started with using OpenOffice 2.0." -- Richard Rosenheim, SIG Leader,
Windows Developer's SIG, Las Vegas PC User Group

"Cover to Cover in one read...I can't tell you the last time I did that.
Point & Click Open Office.org is a must read for those looking to make the
move over to a very powerful and complete Office suite. Robin has done a
fabulous job of presenting it in "PLAIN ENGLISH". If you are considering or
have moved over to OpenOffice, this is the book that you should have sitting
on your desktop."--- John Iasiuolo, Host of: Computer Outlook radio program

 
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Heather L. Fox 
Senior Publicist & User Group Liaison
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall & IBM Press
(phone) 201.236.7139; (FAX); 201.236.7123 heather.fox@pearsoned.com 
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