Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional

Acknowledgments

First of all, I must thank my wife Alison and the kids—Alice, Olivia, and Tom—for their patience as "the book" consumed my waking thoughts and most of my time. It's not the first project that has achieved this feat, but it does take the biscuit for being the largest. Of course, families don't exist as islands, so thanks also to the various Channelles, Doddridges, and Scarbroughs who have been enthused, excited, or just plain tolerant of my talking about work all the time.

In fact, tolerance has been shown in abundance by my colleagues at Linux Format (Andrew, Paul, Nick, Graham, and Mike), Spike Island (Lucy, Lori, Paul, and Karen), sts-solutions (Fiona and Amy), and the University of the West of England (Phil Hargreaves, Mark Barton, ...