Re: [libreoffice-users] Would somebody be able to help a newbe to LibreOffice.

Hi :)
Yes.  You are on it.  We are here.

Prolly best to start with some combination of video guides, published
guides and our Faq.

Videos from the "Spoken Tutorials"
http://www.spoken-tutorial.org/list_videos?view=1&foss=LibreOffice-Suite-Writer&language=English
That is specifically for Writer but that is usually a good way to get
started.  Note those are produced by a 3rd party and in a variety of human
languages.  They also do guides for many other OpenSource products so if
you go slightly off-track you might find yourself producing movies instead
with Blender or something.
http://www.spoken-tutorial.org

Published guides, which you can also buy as paper-backs but here is the
free-link
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
somewhere at the bottom of most of them is the link to the bookstore.  Best
to start with Chapter 3 of their "Getting Started Guide"

The Faq for obvious quick questions is
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq
although it is still being translated from the French.  Most sections are
done.  Currently focussing on translating the Calc one from French.  People
are welcome to join in with that or pick one of the other sections.  Base,
Writer and the general one are done but i'm not sure about the others.

Generally i would encourage people to ask questions on this list first and
then start hunting for the answers.  if you find the answer before we do
then just post (perhaps copy&paste) the answer back to this list to let us
know.  There are other mailing lists, forums and an "Ask LO 'bot' " but now
you are here you have already reached the best one (i might be biased
there!)


Mostly LO is almost exactly like MS Office but it's worth getting into
"Styles" asap to get the biggest boost in productivity and quality.  Styles
in MS Office is a painful thing that has to be fought against in order to
stop it flicking between different ones inappropriately but in
LibreOfice/OpenOffice it does the reverse and just smooths things out
making it easier to import unformatted text and quickly bring that into the
same look&feel as the rest of the document.

So, welcome in!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)




On 7 November 2013 03:08, Bill Gassner <bill.gassner@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Is there a list of willing helpers.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Bill
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