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Open Office is a free office suit intended to replace Microsoft Office. It is distributed free of charge via download and is available for most popular operating systems. The GPL license under which Open Office is distributed allows unlimited use of the software for both home and business use. Because of its compatibility and the fact that it is free, Open Office is increasingly popular with students at school, in MBA programs and other varying degrees. Although it can read and write Microsoft's proprietary document formats, Open Office defaults to the Open Document format.
Like Microsoft Office, Open Office is divided into a word processor, a spreadsheetapplication, a presentation manager, and a database application. In addition, there is a vector-graphicsprogram and a mathematical formula editor. While previous versions of Open Office have been criticized for their unfamiliar layout, version OOo 2 has been designed to mimic Microsoft Offices' familiar interface. This change allows experienced MS Office users to feel right at home using Open Office.
- The OpenOffice.org project has been transferred to the renowned Apache Software Foundation where it prospers under its new name Apache OpenOffice.Before the transfer OpenOffice.org was not only the name of the OpenOffice.org website but also of the application suite, the product and the project.
- Apache and the Apache feather logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. OpenOffice.org and the seagull logo are registered trademarks of The Apache.
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Open Office began life as Star Office. When Sun purchased Star Office they split the development between their proprietary version of the software and the open source Open Office. As such, Open Office shares many of Star Offices' features, such as spell check, wizards, and macro support. In addition, any vendor that supports Star Office can also support Open Office.
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| This project creates and maintains documentation in English for Apache OpenOffice and Apache OpenOffice. Documentation can include user guides, FAQs, How Tos, samples, user templates, the application help, and training materials. The project has a home page on the web as well. If you cannot find what you're looking for, check out the the OpenOffice User Forum. This is a wiki, so feel free to contribute to Apache OpenOffice documentation. Here is the project's dashboard, where contributors coordinate their work. |
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