IBM^? Lotus^? Symphony^TM For Dummies^?

by Rob Tidrow; Foreword by: Eric Otchet

• ISBN13: 9780470445990
• ISBN10: 0470445998
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

If "free" is music to your ears, Lotus Symphony is playing your song! This open source productivity suite lets you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations just like Microsoft Office. And this book shows you how to use the templates, build Web pages and exciting presentations, make Symphony play in tune with Office, and much more. IBM Lotus Symphony For Dummies comes with a Bonus CD which includes The IBM Lotus Symphony software!You'll find out how you can get started immediately by utilizing Lotus Documents, Lotus Spreadsheets, and Lotus Presentations. You'll discover how to create, edit, save and share files using Lotus Documents, the word processing application. You'll find out how you can format styles and design complex documents. And, you'll learn how to make and format spreadsheets for calculating, analyzing, and managing key business and organizational data with Lotus Spreadsheets. You'll know how to craft a brilliant presentation with Lotus Presentations, which allows you to add charts, drawing objects, text, multimedia, and a variety of other items in presentation pages and spice up presentations with animations, page transitions, multimedia objects, and effects. You will learn how to: Make the switch to Lotus Symphony Get to know the Lotus Symphony user interface Use Lotus Documents as a word processor Organize information with Lotus Spreadsheets Create eye-catching presentations with Lotus Presentations Design documents for the WebComplete with lists of ten reasons why you should use Lotus Symphony and ten places to seek support, IBM Lotus Symphony For Dummies is your one-stop guide to word processing, spreadsheet making, and presentation crafting.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Introducing IBM Lotus Symphony

Starting IBM Lotus Symphony

Switching to IBM Lotus Symphony

Getting Help from Lotus Symphony

Using IBM Lotus Symphony Documents the Word Processor Application

Creating a Document

Formatting for Style

Designing Complex Documents

Working with Other Document Types

Using IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets - the Spreadsheet Application

Creating a Spreadsheet

At Home on the Range

Printing Spreadsheets

Adding Spice to Your Spreadsheets

Making Calculations

Using IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations - the Presentation Application

Creating a Presentation

Modifying a Presentation

Making Presentations Picture-Perfect

Animating for a Purpose

Creating Web Pages

Presenting a Screen Show

The Part of Tens

Ten Reasons To Use IBM Lotus Symphony

Ten Places to Look for Support for Lotus Symphony

Appendixes

Installing IBM Lotus Symphony

Function Reference

About the CD

Index

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