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openoffice.orgOpenOffice

Commercial software equivalent(s): Microsoft Office or other office product suites

News: Update 2.1 announced December 12, 2006. Some of the enhancements include:

  • Multiple monitor support for Impress
  • Improved Calc HTML export
  • Enhanced Access support for Base
  • Even more languages
  • Automatic notification of updates

Description: OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It is compatible with all other major office suites. It contains a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation (Impress), a drawing (Draw), equation editor (Math) and a database (Base) component. The product is free to download, use and distribute.
 

Operating system(s): Windows, Linux


License: GNU Lesser General Public License -free to use and distribute


Website: http://www.openoffice.org


Download URL: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html 

OpenOffice 2.0 Tutorials created by SPDC (login as Guest): http://moodle.spdc.org/spdc/


User Documentation: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html


Reviews: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1874157,00.asp

  
 
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