FREE Ebook - OpenOffice.org Draw Basics

If you haven't started using OpenOffice.org, you are really out of touch. Over 20 million people all over the planet are dumping Microsoft Office and switching to OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org is an office suite containing a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation program, and a drawing program.

People are tired of being a slave to Microsoft's Monopoly. Their sick of Microsoft's buggy software, price gouging and absorbitant licencing fees. People don't want to be subjected to Microsoft's abusive product activation scheme.

The problem is, We've invested a lot of time learning how to use Microsoft's products. We don't want to invest the time required to learn new office applications. Another problem is that our documents must be in Microsoft Office file format to be compatible with our store of existing documents.

OpenOffice.org can import and export Microsoft Office file formats and You'll be happy to know that the OpenOffice.org office suite is absolutely free. It's free to install on your computer, all of your computers, and every computer in your organization, at no cost per copy, no licencing fees. This ebook shows you step-by-step how to use the Draw component of the OpenOffice.org office suite.

If you have Microsoft Office installed on your computer, OpenOffice.org can coexist on the same computer. You can start learning OpenOffice.org, falling back on Microsoft Office if you need to. But your goal should be to continue getting comfortable with OpenOffice.org so you can eventually fully migrate to OpenOffice.org.

Sun Microsystems purchased StarOffice from a German company in 1999, made it open source, and named it OpenOffice. The code is maintained by about 100,000 programmers in the OpenOffice.org organization. Some customers wanted Sun to provide support for the office suite, so Sun created a proprietary version of StarOffice.

In this ebook I show you how to use the OpenOffice Draw program. Draw is a powerful drawing program that not only provides the basic drawing functions such as the ability to draw rectangles, elipses, and curves, but also makes it amazingly easy to create and manipulate 3D objects, such as buttons for your webpage.

If you don't already have OpenOffice.org, you can download it from the Web at OpenOffice.org. If you have a dial-up Internet connection you might prefer to purchase a book that includes OpenOffice.org on CD-ROM. The best book/CD combination is Sams Teach Yourself OpenOffice.org All In One