Free OpenOffice.org Training Videos

Rollie Hawk writes "Having trouble converting your family and office mates into OpenOffice devotees? NewsForge (Owned by the same people that bring you Slashdot) can now help you convince the visual learners around you that they can do it. NewsForge is releasing a series of free video segments that demonstrate OpenOffice in action from installation to day-to-day use. According to the site, these clips will play on any browser on any operating system as long as Flash is available. One practical topic that should be particularly interesting to the would-be business converts is 'making a slide presentation in a hurry.'"

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Making a slide presentation in a hurry

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Fire up PowerPoint on Windows PC.
2. Quickly layout presentation using the unparalleled tools of PowerPoint.
3. Run out of office with completed presentation before OS zealots have completed building the bonfire to burn your witch ass.

Re:Making a slide presentation in a hurry

[craXORjack]

I wish I had a nickel for every PowerPoint presentation I've suffered through that was created to cover the fact that the speaker had nothing of value to say.

Amen, Brother! Powerpoint is nothing but a coloring book for executives. It lets them pretend they are busy. It lets everyone who needs to suck up pretend that they are good at something. "Wow, great presentation John! How'd you make that golf cart drive across the screen pulling the next slide with it? That really kept it interesting. I guess that's why you make the big bucks, big guy."

My mom will be getting this link...

[httpamphibio.us]

It doesn't matter how many times I've told her over the phone, how many times we've gone over it in person, how many times she's taken notes... my mom can't remember how to do even the most basic things. Opening and saving she has down... but copy and paste? Double space? Changing the font? Oof! Too difficult!

Hrm... but now that I think of it, she probably won't be able to figure out how to bookmark the site, and even if she does she probably won't remember how to find the bookmark.

Oh well... nevermind...

Good idea

[karvind]

Now I can watch the training video while the openoffice opens. It may take a while you know. No wait that is adobe acrobat reader. Sorry my bad.

/ducks.

Shitty videos

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I can't wait!

[bcrowell]

I can't wait to watch these helpful videos! Now could somebody just point me to a free training video explaining how to play a video on Linux? Or if that doesn't exist, maybe somebody's written some documentation in OpenOffice format?

Re:Shame method

[Hosiah]

using the "shame method".

You mean like I refer to my 8-year-old daughter? Who regularly reboots computers around the house into whatever live CD she currently likes, surfs the web with Firefox (customized to her preferences), tweaks the background and styles in both KDE and Gnome, knows how to navigate the interface in just about any window manager that runs on Linux (from Fluxbox and Window Maker to TWM.), has beaten half the games available for Linux and has figured out the level editors for all those that have one, and even occasionally pops open a console to play with Python one-liners? Yeah, that never fails to silence whichever troll I'm arguing with on /. about Linux being "too hard to learn" and Linux "not being a desktop system." But silencing is different from convincing, not that that's my problem.