What is Openoffice?

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The official openoffice.org Suite description.
"OpenOffice.org is a fully-featured open-source office productivity suite available as a free download for major platforms in over 45 supported languages. It is compatible with competing office suites. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community operating from the http://www.openoffice.org/ website.

Description for the rest of us.
OpenOffice.org Suite is a FREE office suite that can create, edit and save many document formats including Microsoft Office. Export your documents as Adobe pdf in one step. Downloads available in more than 45 languages and adding more as they become availible. Openoffice runs on ALL popular operating systems.

Editor Comments:
OpenOffice is not fly-by-night software. Many governments, academic institutions and businesses have adopted OpenOffice as their primary document editor. Sun Microsystems announced in November of 2006 that 100 million copies of OpenOffice 2.0 had been distributed officially. Unofficially--the estimate of copies distributed by OpenOffice contributors is many times that count.

This suite is amazing, it is compatible with all other office document types. I have Microsoft Office 2003 and I don't use it since I downloaded OpenOffice.org Suite.

As an example, Openoffice Writer will open these file formats:
*.txt *.doc *.rtf *.sdw *.odt *.html *.css *.xml *.eml
and almost any other known or unknown text format.

Openoffice Writer will save in these file formats:
Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)
Microsoft Word 95 (.doc)
Microsoft Word 6.0 (.doc)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
Star Writer 3.0/4.0/50 (.sdw)
Text or encoded Text (.txt)
html (.html)
DocBook (.xml)
Microsoft Word 2003 xml (.xml)
and of course, OpenDocument Text (.odt).

Not to mention that almost any document can be exported as Adobe .PDF and more extentions are added with each new reliease.

Applications Included:

The suite contains a text editor (Writer), spreadsheet editor (Calc), a presentation creator (Impress), a Math function creator (Math) and a very easy to use data base application (Base). OpenOffice has all of the features of Microsoft Office and is easier to use. I really can't say enough good things about this suite.

OpenOffice.org Suite is a Must Have! You can go here to see a great descriptive flyer or download OpenOffice now.

My Favorite OpenOffice Trianing Sites

OpenOffice.org Training, Tips and Ideas - Solveig Haugland has links to Trianing, Books, Turials for beginners and teachers. A huge resource of links to everything OpenOffice. Her blog is a great resource for OpenOffice Tips.

Tutorials For OpenOffice - FREE assistance to anyone learning or teaching OpenOffice.

Download OpenOffice.org now from volunteer servers.

Download from volunteer servers. (Official Openoffice.org Download Site)

Not all languages may be ready, so check with your favourite Native Language project.

P2P, If you find the pages too busy, try using our legal peer-to-peer (P2P) system.

Get CD, If you do not have a suitable internet connection, consider buying a CD-ROM from an OpenOffice.org Community Distributor.

Get CD .iso Image to make your own CDs, Download CD .iso images for Windows or Linux to make your own CDs. Images are split into 2 files to save band width.

To create a single .iso image, download both files and unzip them into a temperary directory. Then burn the contents of the temperary directory to cd.

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