WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux: The Official Guide - Softcover

Philip Rackus; Kate Wrightson; Joe Merlino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072122382 ISBN 13: 9780072122381

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2000

Synopsis

Showcases WordPerfect Office 2000's updated components-- WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Corel Presentations 9, CorelCENTRAL 9, and Paradox 9--as they can be run on the Linux operating system.

About this title

Review:

As Linux becomes less of a nerd's toy and moves into the mainstream, it needs to support serious office productivity. The single most complete solution for creating formatted text documents, spreadsheets, slide shows, and simple desktop databases is Corel's WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. You'll find complete, if unexciting, documentation of this suite in WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux: The Official Guide. It's an instruction book, written mostly for the end user, that shows how to get the results that you want. Readers are assumed to have a working, preinstalled instance of the suite. The book focuses on the suite itself, and doesn't delve into much discussion of how to use Linux in general.

The index is a bit flawed in that you have to know the proprietary name, instead of the generic name, of a feature to find it. To locate information on Quattro Pro's series-completion tool, for instance, you have to know that it's called QuickFill. After you track down the passage that interests you, however, you'll find clear, no-frills documentation (and numbered steps) of the suite's whole set of features. A brief section on ObjectPAL is painted with a brush that's too broad for developers, but it's enough to get power users started in use of the language. --David Wall

Topics covered:

• The Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux suite of productivity applications, including WordPerfect (for text documents)
• Quattro Pro (for spreadsheets)
• Corel Presentations (for slide shows)
• Paradox for Linux (for databases)
• All user-level features of these programs, including formatting, printing, calculating, and macro programming

From the Back Cover:

The ONLY Officially Endorsed Guide to WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. Get the most out of WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux - the integrated suite of powerful programs and tools designed specifically for the flexible Linux operating system. WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux: The Official Guide explains how to use all the features of the Suite to create well-designed documents, vrsatile spreadsheets, impressive presentations, robust databases, and well-organized schedules. Take power, performance, and productivity to a whole new level using Corel's dynamic product and this authorized guide. Follow the easy-step-by-step lessons and examples and learn to: Create professional-looking WordPerfect 9 documents - memos, letters, resumes, and more - and share documents with WordPerfect for Windows users Organize, analyze, and manage data in Quattro Pro 9 for Linux spreadsheets and share data across Quattro Pro 9 for Windows spreadsheets Set up captivating slide presentations with Corel Presentations 9 for Linux Manage contact information, schedules, tasks, and e-mail using Corel-CENTRAL 9 for Linux Keep track of information with Paradox 9 for Linux - the easy-to-use relational database application

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072122382
• ISBN 13: 9780072122381
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 788