WindowsDevCenter: Technical Writing Using OpenOffice.org Writer

“Technical writers produce a wide range of documents, such as
data sheets, specifications, user guides, online help, marketing
materials, proposals, tenders, reports, and more. Although the
final layout of many of these documents is often done using
FrameMaker, PageMaker, or QuarkXPress, far more documents are
produced using Microsoft Word.

“If you’re in the business of writing technical documents and
you’ve been using Word in particular, you could benefit by
switching to OpenOffice.org Writer. OpenOffice.org Writer is a
strong competitor to Word for both drafts and final layout (desktop
publishing) of many technical documents because it combines some of
the best features of Word and FrameMaker. Indeed, Writer does
several things better or easier than each of them, as I’ll discuss
in this article…”

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