Welcome to OpenOffice.org Support
Welcome to the OpenOffice.org Support area. Listed here are links to OpenOffice.org community Support, commercial support and training, OpenOffice.org books, and general community resources.
If you are a new user to OpenOffice.org and can't get your questions answered through the on-line Help provided with OpenOffice.org, we recommend that you first take a look at the latest User Guide available for your version, and use the OpenOffice.org FAQ site. The OpenOffice.org forum is another great place to get help!
In the listings below, each item is preceded by some characters, which indicate the version of OpenOffice.org for which it is relevant:
ALL - Indicates that it is relevant for ALL versions of OpenOffice.org
3.x - Indicates that it is relevant for OpenOffice.org 3.0 and later
OpenOffice Community Support
- Documentation Wiki
Templates, user guides, how-Tos, tutorials and other documentation for users - User Help: Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs, information, knowledge base - The OpenOffice.org Community Forum
The premier forum for OpenOffice.org users; immensely useful and recommended - Users Mail List (Subscribe / Archives)
Community support provided by a network of hundreds of experienced users. You must be subscribed to post messages. - General OOo Mail Lists
Subscriptions and archives for key OOo lists - OpenOffice.org Wiki
Supports development and other kinds of contributions - Developer's Guide
Free OpenOffice.org community developer's guide. - Issue Tracker (bug reporting and lookup) from the OpenOffice.org QA Project
Public issue search but you must register to submit an issue.
- The (Unofficial) OpenOffice Forum
Discussion site for all things OpenOffice.org - Tutorials for OpenOffice.org
Assistance to anyone learning or teaching OpenOffice.org - OpenOfficeSchool.org
Free lessons in calc - 8daysaweek
General help for users of OpenOffice.org - Macro Guide
Free guide to macros. - OASIS OpenDocument Essentials--Using OASIS OpenDocument XML
Free introduction to the XML that serves as the native internal format of OpenOffice.org, an open source, cross-platform office suite.
- OpenOffice.org Consultants Directory
A comprehensive list of consultants offering a variety of services related to OpenOffice.org including professional support and training
- 2011Beginning OpenOffice Calc (Amazon)
Jacek Artymiak, Apress, September 2011, ISBN 978-1430231592
Covers topics from setting up simple spreadsheets to business forecasting. - 2011OpenOffice.org 3.3 Draw Guide (Lulu)
A free PDF version is also available from the Documentation wiki.
The OOoAuthors team, Friends of OpenDocument Inc., August 2011, ISBN 978-1921320187. - 2011OpenOffice.org 3.3 Math Guide (Lulu)
A free PDF version is also available from the Documentation wiki.
The OOoAuthors team, Friends of OpenDocument Inc., August 2011. - 2011OpenOffice.org 3.3 Impress Guide (Lulu)
A free PDF version is also available from the Documentation wiki.
The OOoAuthors team, Friends of OpenDocument Inc., June 2011, ISBN 978-1921320170. - 2011OpenOffice.org 3.3 Calc Guide (Lulu)
A free PDF version is also available from the Documentation wiki.
The OOoAuthors team, Friends of OpenDocument Inc., May 2011. ISBN 978-1921320149. - 2011OpenOffice.org 3.3 Writer Guide (Lulu)
A free PDF version is also available from the Documentation wiki.
The OOoAuthors team, Friends of OpenDocument Inc., February 2011, ISBN 978-1921320132. - 2010Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3.3 (Lulu)
A free PDF version is also available from the Documentation wiki.
The OOoAuthors team, Friends of OpenDocument Inc., November 2010, ISBN 978-1921320118. - 2010OpenOffice Basic Crash Course (Lulu)
Learn how to use the OpenOffice.org Basic programming language to automate the suite's applications and create nifty solutions. No programming experience required.
Dmitri Popov, 2010, ISBN 978-8799306800. - 2010Writer for Writers and Advanced Users (Lulu)
Learn how to design book templates, format bibliographies, digitally sign documents and much, much more.
Dmitri Popov, 2010, ISBN: 978-1411680388. - 2010Sun Report Builder Guidebook (Lulu)
Learn how to use the powerful Sun Report Builder extension that works with a variety of databases including OpenOffice Base.
Dmitri Popov, 2010. - 2010Writer's Tools Manual (Lulu)
Covers all the important topics to help you to get the most out of the Writer's Tools extension for OpenOffice.org.
Dmitri Popov, 2010. - 2009Self-publishing using OOo3 Writer
(Lulu)
How to use free software to write, design, and create PDFs for print-on-demand books.
Jean Hollis Weber, October 2009, ISBN 978-1921320071. - 2009A Conceptual Guide to OpenOffice.org 3 (Author's site)
Released under the Public Docuemntation License (PDL), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GNU Free Documentation licenses.
Gabriel Gurley, 2008, ISBN 978-0977899173. See also the page on the Documentation wiki. - 2008Quick Start Cards (BrainStorm, Inc.)
6-page, tri-folded cards for a quick reference on basic and intermediate tasks in Writer, Calc and Impress. - 2008Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional (Amazon)
Andy Channelle, 2008, Apress, ISBN 978-1430215905. - 2006Learn OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Macro Programming: OOoBasic and Calc Automation (Publisher's site)
Dr Mark Alexander Bain, December 2006, ISBN 978-1847190970. - 2004OpenOffice.org Macros Explained (Publisher's site)
Introduction to macro programming in OpenOffice.org. 300 pages. August 2004, ISBN 1-930919-51-4.
