Office Productivity

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• Introduction
• Open Source office productivity tools
• Microsoft office productivity software
• PDF
• General

Introduction

This section takes you to articles and tutorials which will help you use common office productivity software such as MS Word and Excel. You will also find information on Open Source alternatives to mainstream commercial software, and links to software sites.

Open Source - General

OpenICDL

Developed by: Go-Open Campaign / ICDL Foundation Africa
Type of resource: Web site
Target audience: General
Cost: Free access

\"OpenICDL is an open source project that aims to develop and maintain a Free/Open Source version of the training materials used to ready students for the International Computer Driving License certification.\" Materials cover Basic Concepts of IT, Using a Computer and Managing Files (K Desktop Environment), Word Processing (OpenOffice.org Writer), Spreadsheets (OpenOffice.org Calc), Databases (OpenOffice DB), Presentations (OpenOffice.org Impress) and Information and Communications (Mozilla 1.4 and Ximian Evolution 1.4). Materials are available in HTML and PDF versions.

Dhttp://icdl.tsf.org.za/courseware.html

Office Productivity - Open Source

Tutorials for Open Office

Developed by: Tutorials for Open Office
Type of resource: Web site
Target audience: General
Cost: Free access

Web site with free learning tutorials on installing OpenOffice and using OpenOffice applications. Concise and brief instructions for self-learners and teachers.

Dhttp://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/

Free Software for Busy People

Developed by: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Type of resource: website
Target audience: General
Cost: Free access

This site not only features an easy-to-read online book entitled "Free Software for Busy People", it provides free software use scenarios from a primary school teacher, a city mayor, an arab teacher, and a family physician. With these busy people as examples the site highlights a broad range of practical skills and gives readers insight to the vast possibility provided by free software tools. Learn how the city mayor uses "Civic Space" for her campaigns, how the family doctor uses "OpenEMR" to keep track of her patient registry, or how the Arab teacher uses Openoffice.org in Arabic, and plays games.

Dhttp://freedomsoftware.info/

Microsoft Word Modules

Developed by: Internet4Classrooms
Type of resource: Web tutorials
Target audience: General
Cost: Free access

Internet4Classrooms offers a long list of modules on using MS Word, from basic to advanced levels.

Dhttp://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_word.ht
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NGO-in-a-box: Open Publishing Edition

Developed by: Tactical Tech
Type of resource: Software and web guides
Target audience: General
Cost: Free access

"The Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open Source software, tutorials and guides for producing, publishing and distributing content."

Dhttp://openpublishing.ngoinabox.org/