Getting Started with Open Office .org 3 part 2. This Manual Book is for anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with the latest version . “GETTING STARTED WITH ″ introduces all software programs of the OpenOffice bundle: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor) and Base (database). This book was written by volunteers from the community working through and is distributed under the CreativeCommon Attribution Licence | Impress presentations Impress provides all the common multimedia presentation tools such as special effects animation and drawing tools. It is integrated with the advanced graphics capabilities of OOo s Draw and Math components. Slideshows can be further enhanced with Fontwork s special effects text as well as sound and video clips. Impress is compatible with Microsoft s PowerPoint file format and can also save your work in numerous graphics formats including Macromedia Flash SWF . Draw vector graphics Draw is a vector drawing tool that can produce everything from simple diagrams or flowcharts to 3-D artwork. Its Smart Connectors feature allows you to define your own connection points. You can use Draw to create drawings for use in any of OOo s other components and you can create your own clipart and add it to the Gallery. Draw can import graphics from many common formats and save them in over 20 formats including PNG HTML PDF and Flash. Base database Base provides tools for day-to-day database work within a simple interface. It can create and edit forms reports queries tables views and relations so that managing a connected database is much the same as in other popular database applications. Base provides many new features such as the ability to analyze and edit relationships from a diagram view. Base incorporates HSQLdb as its default relational database engine. It can also use dBASE Microsoft Access MySQL or Oracle or any ODBC- or JDBC-compliant database. Base also provides support for a subset of ANSI-92 SQL. Math formula editor Math is OOo s formula or equation editor. You can use it to create complex equations that include symbols or characters not available in standard font sets. While it is most commonly used to create formulas in other documents such as Writer and Impress files Math can also work as a stand-alone tool. You can save formulas in the standard Mathematical Markup Language MathML format for inclusion in webpages and other documents not created
