Penang & Kuala Lumpur

Open-source productivity

LibreOffice Professional Suite

Use the open-source LibreOffice suite for professional documents, spreadsheets, presentations and visual communication.

Published feeRM1,000
Duration3 days
LibreOffice professional suite course
Published feeRM1,000
Duration3 days
DeliveryPractical office-software training
FundingHRD Corp claimable

Course objectives

What this course is designed to achieve

Participants are introduced to Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw and learn how an open-source office suite can support daily commercial work without proprietary licence costs.

Course fit and results

Who should attend and what they will learn

Suitable participants

Who should attend

  • Business owners
  • Employees
  • Administrative teams
  • Organisations adopting open-source software

Learning outcomes

After completing the course

  • Install Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw
  • Understand the main LibreOffice functions
  • Use LibreOffice in daily office routines
  • Reduce office-software licensing costs

Detailed syllabus

Course outline

The learning areas below are carried over from ITPA’s existing course information and organised for easier review.

Section 1

Writer

  • Writer interface
  • Options and working preferences
  • Working with text
  • Formatting pages
  • Printing, exporting, faxing and email
  • Introduction to styles
  • Working with styles
  • Images
  • Tables
  • Templates
  • Mail merge
  • Tables of contents, indexes and bibliographies
  • Master documents
  • Fields
  • Forms

Section 2

Calc

  • Calc interface
  • Entering, editing and formatting data
  • Charts and graphs
  • Styles and templates
  • Graphics
  • Printing, exporting and email
  • Formulas and functions
  • PivotTables
  • Sharing and reviewing documents

Section 3

Impress

  • Introducing Impress
  • Slide masters, styles and templates
  • Adding and formatting text
  • Adding and formatting pictures
  • Managing graphic objects
  • Animations
  • Formatting graphic objects
  • Spreadsheets, charts and other objects
  • Slides, notes and handouts
  • Modifying slides
  • Slide shows
  • Printing, email, exporting and saving
  • Setup and customisation

Section 4

Draw

  • Introducing Draw
  • Objects and object points
  • Changing object attributes
  • Combining multiple objects
  • Editing pictures
  • Working with 3D objects
  • Connections, flowcharts and organisation charts

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