OpenOffice is a powerful, robust, stable,
high quality, free office suite. It is developed by a community
of very talented programmers around the world to provide a leading,
fully functional, multi-lingual, multi-platform office suite for everyone.
This free software is great as substitute to Microsoft
Office. You probably need an hour or two to adjust using OpenOffice;
read its help files to learn the advanced features. OpenOffice
Suite includes:
Writer
Writer is a powerful, flexible, professional
word processor. It is simple to use, handles very complex documents,
and is exceptionally stable. It reads and writes Microsoft Word documents.
Calc
Calc
is a feature-packed spreadsheet and is Microsoft Excel compatible.
Draw
Draw
is an excellent graphics editor and works with a large range of image
formats such as JPG, BMP, EPS, PNG, GIF, TIF, and more.
Impress
Impress
is a presentation creator for multimedia presentations. It is Microsoft
PowerPoint compatible.
Data Source Editor
The Data Source Editor
lets you connect to most major databases such as JDBC, ODBC, ADO,
and more. It can link with Writer to easily create mailing list letters.
HTML
(web page) Editor
The HTML Editor is a complete "What You See is What
You Get" (WYSIWYG) working environment for your web pages and no HTML
coding skill is necessary to use it. It supports drag 'n drop of images.
Math
Math
is a mathematical formula editor which provides many formatting assistants,
functions, and operators to help you create your formula.
BASIC
BASIC
is an advanced macro and scripting language. It is a powerful Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) for developing and debugging everything
from simple macros to full-blown structured programs.
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information, download this file (216kB) and open it using Internet
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Note: If you encountered a rare printing problem under
Windows 9x using the latest version of OpenOffice, try the legacy
release ver. 1.0.3.1.
