The Guide will make a liberal use of screenshots to visually display the area being documented. It is important then, specially for new users, to understand the first chapters of this guide before going on to specific information for each component.
For this reason the present guide will start to talk about Apache OpenOffice as a whole, then later provide 'examples' for each component. Apache OpenOffice has several components (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base.) that share many characteristics on their user interfaces.
