Staroffice 5.2 Companion

by Floyd Jones and Solveig Haugland

This step-by-step task-based productivity guide to StarOffice for Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms. Covers every component: Writer, Calc, Impress, Web, Draw, Image, Schedule, Mail, Address Book,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130307033
• ISBN13: 9780130307033
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 1121 Pages
• Weight: 3.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Essential for StarOffice 5.2

We were quite dependent on this book for the first months of using StarOffice, and then ordered the 6.0 update once we decided to switch to StarOffice 6.0 and OpenOffice. It's very nicely written, well organized, and it is easy to find the instructions for what one needs to do.

Required Reading

Superb writing style (even funny). Comprehensive coverage for beginner through intermediate user. Good introduction to StarOffice Basic programming. (None of my MS Office books is so well written.) StarOffice 5.2 is a fantastic office suite (for Linux and MS Windows) at a fantastic price. The only way to learn the hundreds of SO features is with a book like this. Otherwise you'll never know the power of this software. For those trying to learn StarOffice 5.2 this book is required reading. (The book that comes with the purchased software package is less complete or fun and is more to get users started.)

Best StarOffice book by far

I can't believe how simple and straightforward this book is. I look up stuff in the index, it's there, I go to the page number, and there's a list of steps that tells me how to do what I want. And it works. This is the way it should be.(And I'd just like to add, WHY is anyone still writing out checks to Bill Gates when StarOffice handles Microsoft Office formats? Microsoft has enough money.)

The future is now linux and staroffice a heaven-made match.

With linux taking over the world StarOffice is the only office solution for the platform. The material is presented in a clear, straight-forward, informative manner. Each of the 1,100 pages was a joy to read as compared to other software technical guides. This is the real thing of how books should be written. StarOffice Companion should now be the benchmark of other books.[....]

Tells you how it REALLY works

This is the first book I've looked at that makes me think the authors actually used StarOffice. It appears that they tried everything because there's a lot of information on how things are supposed to work but don't. There are also helpful, unexpected things like how to do a workaround on a process that's really a pain, like outline numbering.It's hilarious, too--check out the tutorial on using Draw and Image together.