How to Choose a Good Instructional Book about OpenOffice.org

If the success of an open source project can be measured by the number of third-party books about it, then OpenOffice.org is thriving. Not only is OpenOffice.org represented by a dozen books and pieces of training material on Amazon.com, but interest in OpenOffice.org is widespread enough that each of the books is geared to a slightly different audience. This article gives an overview of four of the current OpenOffice.org books, ending with a suggestion of which to buy for your own needs.

Byfield, Bruce. IT Manager's Journal (2004). Articles>Documentation>Software>OpenOffice

Read and Write DocBook XML Using OpenOffice.org

The project goal is to explore the possibility of using OpenOffice.org as a WYSIWYG editor of XML content. The principle is to edit structured documents using styles. These styles are then transformed to XML tags on export.

OpenOffice.org (2005). Articles>Documentation>Software>OpenOffice