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Summary: Complete Reference Source
Review: This is an excellent resource for learning the various functions and features of the StarOffice suite. This book goes beyond the basic "how-to" information and provides in-depth information on the operation of the StarOffice applications. The book provides many helpful tips and much insight on issues you would usually have to figure out on your own. Overall, the educational aspect of the book builds your sense of confidence in the expertise of the author and his genuine desire to help you expand your own knowledge.
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Summary: Technically detailed and thorough
Review: This is the book that you get if you want to know allllll about how stuff works. If you're the one who can't stand to just tell time and wants to know about the gears, this book is for you.There's some good coverage of StarBasic, how to get down and dirty with it, and apparently it was given a tech review by someone on the StarOffice team, so one would assume that it's all accurate. I was also impressed by the depth of coverage of how to have forms and form fields interact with databases. He gets reasonably down and dirty with spreadsheets, too, how to do some good stuff with all the functions. One thing made me snort, though. Koch actually defines cutting and pasting. (If you don't know what cutting and pasting is when you open this book, you're in trouble!) Talks about how it's a process by which you take data and put it into a holding area called a "clipboard" on Windows, or some kind of buffer, on Linux and Solaris. I think the only place anyone might call it a buffer is in the Ph.D program at MIT.
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Summary: Just the best StarOffice book on the market !
Review: We are using StarOffice since a lot of years. This new edition for StarOffice 6.0 is full of tips and tricks, of which even experienced users will learn a lot of things. Not speaking about the people making the transistion form the Microsoft products. The main differences about the philosophy of the two products (Microsoft versus Sun) are explained at a glance, with at lot of tips making the cohexistence and the conversions of the documents easier.
For the user interested in writing macros, this book is a must. It offers a good start in the StarOne API, the open StarOffice API, with examples written in StarBasic.
In short, this book was written by experts having a big experience in StarOffice.
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