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Free OpenOffice.org Training Videos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-less-reason-not-to-switch dept.

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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  1. Re:Making a slide presentation in a hurry by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Insightful
    > 1. Fire up PowerPoint on Windows PC.
    > 2. Quickly layout presentation using the unparalleled tools of PowerPoint.

    PowerPoint is nothing short of social malware.
    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.

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  2. MPEG4, please! by c0l0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are people (like me) who refuse to install Flash (well, at least until GPLFlash is done and does not ruthlessly crash my browser on load any more ;)) on their systems, so an alternative download for (non-interactive, if applicable) MPEG4-encoded, via a free codec like XViD, for example, versions of the files would be highly appreciated, methinks.

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