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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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.

Re:Very useful, but... slow?

[saskboy]

Open up OO.o 2 and go to:
-Tools.

-Options

-Java

Disable Java, and it will open about twice as fast. I hear it disables macros or something that most users will never use. Hopefully in 2.1 they'll disable Java by default, and load it up slowly in the background after the application is open and being used.

YouTube

[Life700MB]

They really should make use of tech like YouTube.

Shitty videos

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Google clippy says

[Wisgary]

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Re:Program to make those 'videos'?

[seeken]

probably this vnc to swf recorder:

http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/