OpenOffice

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.

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