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OpenOffice.org is both an open source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It combines the key desktop applications--such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, drawing program, mathematical editor, database application and web page design tool--with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

SUN sells a commercial office suite based on OpenOffice.org, called StarOffIce. Students can download it free from sun.com.

Contents 1 Getting OpenOffice.org 2 Starting OpenOffice 3 Parts 4 See also

Getting OpenOffice.org

Install OpenOffice by means of your distribution, as described at Installing Software. If this is not possible, download it from http://www.openoffice.org.

Starting OpenOffice

To start OpenOffice, open a console and type

soffice

The "s" in "soffice" is used for consistency with StarOffIce.

Parts

The OpenOffice suite consists of

• oOWriter
• oOCalc
• oOImPress
• oOWeb
• oODRaw

See also

• Customising Appearance
• OpenOffice Hacking
• Using the OpenOffice.org Suite
• The OpenOffice.org homepage
  • Download page
  • Support
  • The OpenOffice.org Forum
  • KDE Integration Project
• GNOME/OpenOffice.org