Course Description
Introduction to OpenOffice Applications teaches students about the OpenOffice environment, and how to use the OpenOffice.org™ suite of applications for word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations. The course covers OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Base, and Impress. As students learn the basics of OpenOffice Writer, they create, save, and format documents, learn how to produce customized documents, and how include hyperlinks, graphics, and charts. Working with Calc, students create spreadsheets to manage, manipulate, and calculate data, and learn how to create formulas and filters to find the data applicable to a particular question or situation. With Base, students learn how to create professional-looking databases to manage data from many related spreadsheets. Learning to customize these databases prevents errors in data entry and shows relationships between different spreadsheets. Students then present their findings in multimedia presentations created with Impress. At the completion of this course, students have the tools to work with and present information in a variety of forms for professional, academic, and personal use.