The practical, user-friendly, insider's guide to mastering StarOffice, which opens files in over 200 formats, including Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. This practical, comprehensive, task-based guide to making the most of StarOffice 6.0 incorporates solutions to questions from hundreds of new StarOffice users, as well as insider's tips for power users, making this the most practical, task-oriented book around.

For millions of Linux and UNIX users, the 100% free, community-source licensed StarOffice has become the program that finally made Windows superfluous. Now, there's a comprehensive, task-based guide to making the most of StarOffice -- straight from Sun Microsystems, the product's developer! StarOffice Companion covers every major component of StarOffice: StarWriter word processing, the StarWeb built-in browser; StarCalc spreadsheets; StarImpress presentations; the StarDraw and StarImage graphics tools; StarSchedule scheduling; StarMail and the StarOffice address book; the StarBase database, and more. From start to finish, the book is designed to focus on the most important features in each module -- and the tasks and tips users need to maximize their productivity. Well written and exquisitely well organized, this book fills the only missing link that has prevented even more users from embracing StarOffice: the absence of excellent documentation.

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Despite pressure from the private sector to market their own custom solutions, the healthcare industry is coming around to the idea of applying the strategies of collaboration, open solutions, and innovation to meet the ever-changing demands for healthcare information to support quality and safety. This book provides a roadmap for improving quality of care using Electronic Health Records (EHR) and interoperable, consumer-centric health information solutions. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

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Howard and LeBlanc (both are security experts with Microsoft) discuss the need for security and outline its general principles before outlining secure coding techniques. Testing, installation, documentation, and error messages are also covered. Appendices discuss dangerous APIs, dismiss pathetic excuses, and provide security checklists. The book explains how systems can be attacked, uses anecdotes to illustrate common mistakes, and offers advice on making systems secure. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Now available: Nudge: The Final Edition The original edition of the multimillion-copy New York Times bestseller by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions—for fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, James Clear’s Atomic Habits, and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and the Financial Times Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture” to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.