Open Office - How To Create Templates

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Why Open Office

Why I am going to train my brothers with Open Office? First, I think that we should be able to work with both open and proprietary productivity tools. Secondly, I dislike MS Office.

My brothers have no such bias towards Microsoft. In fact, they love MS products. They think that Office 2000 is easier to use than Open Office. I do not argue them, Since I haven't used either of these suites to a point where I could say that one of them is more difficult. I don't blame my brothers for taking the MS side in this debate. In an environment where every one is using pirated Office XP every where, they think that Microsoft opens a world of opportunities to them. Who uses Open Office in Pakistan? They ask me and I can not answer this question.

Free MS Office tutorials

Microsoft offers a free book In and Out of the Classroom with Microsoft Office 2000 Professional. This book has Office 2000 tutorials that introduce students to Microsoft Office 2000 and how to get the most out of it. These tutorials are quite comprehensive and would be a great start for our learning process. I have also found Florida Gulf Coast University's Office 2000 Tutorials. These tutorials are very basic. So I guess we will use Microsoft's tutorials as our text book for now.

Why we are using Office 2000? We can not afford to buy Office XP. Unlike most popular Linux distributions, Microsoft's windows XP doesn't come equipped with all the essential software that you would need.

What about Open Office, it runs on Windows? Yes and we will be working on Open Office as well. What we are going to do is to learn Ms Office, Open Office and Google Office all at once. For example lets say we learn to set page margins on MS Word, then we will learn how to do that in Open Office writer and then Google Docs.