Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional

Part 2. Working Across Applications

So far, you've been working on single applications, but OpenOffice.org is a suite of applications designed to make getting data from one part into another very simple. This means, for example, that you can take a chart from Calc, embed it in an Impress presentation or Writer document, and have the chart update as data is updated in the original spreadsheet; or take an image from Draw, add web-style hotspots, and import the whole thing intact into a Write-based web site.

In Chapter 8, you'll use the suite to create two web page projects, which will rely mostly on Writer to pull together all of the elements, and output them in a format suitable for uploading to a web server or sending out as an e-mail marketing ...