# About this Book

## Organization

This book is divided into two parts, with several appendices. The first part is a guided tour— it will explain how to use Evolution. If you are new to Evolution or to groupware in general, this section is for you. The second section, covering configuration, is targeted at more advanced users, but anyone who wants to change the way Evolution looks or acts can benefit from reading it.

## Typographical conventions

In this book, we'll mark some words with special typography:

- Applications
- `Commands` you type at the command line
- Labels for buttons and other portions of the graphical interface
- Menu selections look like this: Menu Submenu Menu Item
- Buttons you can click
- `Anything you type in`
- `Text output from a computer`
- Words that are defined in the .

### Tip

Tips and bits of extra information will look like this.

### Example Example

This is what an example looks like. We'll provide examples for some of the more complicated tasks you might be performing.

### Example Warning

This is what a warning looks like. If there's a chance you'll run into trouble, we'll warn you beforehand.