![]() ![]() Of course, not every feature is included, and at times the explanations are rather terse, but if readers work with the software while reading, they will be able to move forward in cases of doubt. The book explains the most important features of the software, and is illustrated with appropriate, excellently commented screen shots (one or sometimes two screen shots per page). The book is intended for beginners (the authors start with an explanation of windows, menus, scrollbars, toolbars, file opening and saving, and so on) and may also be used as "a quick reference or refresher for intermediate users." While the authors never use the term "abstraction," they illustrate the concept very well. It provides a focused, well-written, and very nice introduction to the most important features of the Writer, Calc, Impress, and Base modules in less than 150 pages. ![]() Fortunately, this book is much better designed. Since the features provided in LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice exceed those of WordPerfect, one might imagine an even larger size for a reference on using these suites. I still remember finding a book on how to use "WordPerfect 5.0" of more than 850 pages, in fact a dozen pages more than my 1951 edition of Georg Joos, "Theoretical Physics"! But complexity sells better and the market pulls in the opposite direction. ![]() if we refuse to be crushed by the complexities of our own making. Dijkstra noted about another such application: We know that we can only use a system by virtue of our knowledge of its properties. Their description may therefore be(come) overwhelming, as E. The free open-source office suites LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are excellent fully functional productivity applications. ![]()
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