Suse Linux 9.3 For Dummies- P16

Suse Linux 9.3 For Dummies- P16:This part is all about getting you started on your wayto a lasting relationship with SUSE Linux. Before youcan begin your SUSE Linux experience, I spend a chapterexplaining what SUSE Linux is and what you can do withSUSE Linux (pretty much anything you can do with a PCthat runs Windows).
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Suse Linux 9.3 For Dummies- P16 Chapter 13 Doing Even More Office Stuff in SUSE Linux In This Chapter Keeping track of appointments and tasks Making calculations Preparing presentations in OpenOffice.org Impress B esides word processing and spreadsheets that I cover in Chapter 12, what else do you do in an office? Hmmm . . . let me see. How about keeping track of appointments and tasks? Calculating how much profit you made? And making sales pitches or some sort of presentation? In this chap- ter, I cover SUSE Linux applications for some of these other office tasks. The chapter begins with a quick summary of the calendar applications in KDE and GNOME. Then I describe OpenOffice.org Impress — a Microsoft PowerPoint- like presentation software package. Keeping Track of Appointments and Tasks If you installed KDE as your desktop, you can use Kontact — a new KDE appli- cation that integrates existing KDE applications such as the KMail mail reader and the KOrganizer calendar program into a single graphical personal infor- mation manager. To start Kontact, click the Personal Information Manager icon on the KDE panel (see Figure 13-1) or choose Main Menu➪Office➪ Kontact.Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 206 Part III: Doing Stuff with SUSE Figure 13-1: Click this icon to start KDE Kontact Start KDE Kontact by clicking the icon on the KDE panel. When Kontact starts, it usually displays the KMail application. You can, however, switch to other views by clicking the icons on the left pane of the Kontact window (refer to Figure 13-2). For example, Figure 13-2 shows Kontact after you click the Calendar icon. In this case, Kontact displays the output of KOrganizer — the KDE calendar program. The KOrganizer program displays a calendar view where you can click a date to set or view that day’s schedule. Figure 13-2 shows a typical calendar. Figure 13-2: On the KDE desktop, use Kontact to store your appoint- ments and view your calendar. You can go to a different month or year by clicking the arrows next to the month and the year. To add a to-do item for a specific date, select the date from the calendar, click the To-do Items text box and type the description of the task. To add appointments for a specific time, double-click the time and type a brief description of the appointment in the dialog box that appears. Click OK when you’re done. After you finish adding events and appointments, choose File➪Save to save the calendar.Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Chapter 13: Doing Even More Office Stuff in SUSE Linux 207 If you installed the GNOME desktop, you can use Evolution to keep track of your calendar and tasks. Start Evolution by clicking its icon on the GNOME desktop’s top panel (or choose Main Menu➪Office➪Evolution). After the Evolution window appears, click Calendars on the left pane to use the calen- dar, as shown in Figure 13-3. Evolution’s calendar is intuitive to use. Simply select a date and double-click a time to open the Appointment dialog box where you can type in the details of the appointment. Figure 13-3: On the GNOME desktop, use Evolution as your calendar application. Making Calculations You have a choice of the KDE calculator or the GNOME calculator, depending ...