OpenOffice Writer Essentials Course

  • Using Nagios to Detect Network Sniffers
    As security becomes more of an issue for all businesses, Nagios can be used to cover some of those 
    security details. In this article Nagios is used to located network cards that may be in the process 
    of sniffing network traffic.
    					
  • Monitoring Servers with Webmin

    Monitoring Servers With Webmin

    This is an interesting feature in Webmin that provides a way to monitor daemons on the server and notify administrators of down services. Webmin attempts to implement many of the standard functions of the more full featured Nagios.

  • Troubleshooting Mail on Nagios XI

    Troubleshooting Mail on Nagios XI

    Email management and troubleshooting can be a challenge as there are so many options and configuration choices that can get twisted.

This is a Mini-Course is available to anyone for free. Once students have completed the course they should be able to preform basic operations in OpenOffice Writer, a word processor available on almost all Linux distributions.

Course Design
This course is designed for basic Linux users including very detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to preform common word processing tasks on OpenOffice Writer. This course on OpenOffice Writer also includes some bonus items to help teachers and instructors teach the basics of OpenOffice without losing students interest.

Writer Introduction

Understand Toolbars, Menu Bars, Title Bars

Modify The Toolbar

Open a Document

Open a Microsoft Word Document

Saving to a Microsoft Word Format

Know Your Extensions

Character Formatting

Character Formatting Window

Paragraph Format Window

Styles and Formatting

Writer Cheatsheet

Quiz

Course Difficulty
The skill level of this OpenOffice Writer course is perfect for newbie-desktop users. Anyone using the graphical interface on the desktop will find the content easy to follow.

Course Support
The course author, among others, will be available for questions in the Forum.