Welcome to OOoAuthors!

This is a development site for OpenOffice.org documentation. Please choose your language in the list to left.

If you just want to read documentation, see our published chapters. (OOo 3): PDF and ODT (on this website) or PDF only (on the OpenOffice.org website). (OOo 2.x): PDF and ODT (on this website) or PDF only (on the OpenOffice.org website). Both sets are also on the Documentation wiki. You do not need to have an account or log in to read documentation or download copies.

Printed copies of some books are also available.

How you can help at OOoAuthors

We are a group of volunteer reviewers, writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, and translators producing documentation for OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, and Base. If you want to assist with producing documentation, you do need an account to log in to this website.

We are working on the User Guide for OOo 3.x.

The priority is on writing about new and significantly changed features, some of which are listed on the this page. New features in OOo3.1 are here, and om OOo3.2 here.

To help with writing documentation in English, please go to this page for more information on priority work needed.

Getting started

1. Join the OOoAuthors site.
2. Join the mailing list.
3. Request author role (reviewers, indexers, or proofreaders as well as writers need this).
4. If you don't have it already, download and install OOo3.2.

Printed books for sale

The following books by OOoAuthors are available in printed form from the Friends of OpenDocument's store at Lulu.com:
Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3 - NEW October 2008
OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide - NEW January 2009
Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 2.x - Fourth Edition - May 2008
OpenOffice.org 2.x Writer Guide - Third Edition
OpenOffice.org 2.x Impress Guide
OpenOffice.org 2.x Draw Guide - Second edition - April 2008
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Migration Guide

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European OOoAuthors-shop
Now, there's a European shop too... :)
You'll find different things here - if you want some more, or different colours or ... please let me know. I can add more articles. -- Sigrid