Open Office Basic: An Introduction - Paperback

by James Steinberg (Author)

Apache Open Office is the leading open-source office software suite. It features word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases. It is available for all major operating systems. Open Office has the ability to automate features using recorded and manually created macros, created using a number of different programming languages. This book concentrates on one of those languages OpenOffice.org Basic. This book starts by giving an overview of the language and its structure, before detailing the various commands and functions that are available in OpenOffice.org Basic.

Author Biography

Professor James Steinberg is a Professor of Applied Computing, lecturing on programming in a number of current and historical programming languages. Professor Steinberg also acts in a consultancy role for a number of software development companies, advising on the implementation of corporate systems. Professor Steinberg is an avid proponent of the Open Source movement and regularly lectures on the benefits of the Open Source paradigm. Professor Steinberg is married with two children.