Description

OpenOffice.org is a free and open-source office productivity suite. It includes the four key desktop productivity applications: a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program. It offers a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.

To facilitate collaboration, OpenOffice.org works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Office's “.DOC” and “.XLS”.

OpenOffice.org's open-source nature prevents vendor lock-in and ensures competitive support options, as well as ongoing product development.

The OpenOffice.org suite is available in 25 languages, with more being added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs on Windows, Linux and, soon, Mac OS X.

Key OpenOffice.org Writer Features

Complete text formatting: Bold, Italics, Underline, Strike Through, Slash Through, Superscript and Subscript, Colors, Highlighting, Small Caps, and more.

Automatic spell-checking that identifies misspellled words as you type.

Auto-correction for common typos such as “teh”.

Full Undo and Redo support.

An extensive help system covering all of OpenOffice.org's features.

Professional word processing features such as Footnotes , Table of Contents, Alphabetical Indexes, Bibliographies, special auto-updating fields like today's date (11/27/04), and newspaper-style multiple-column pages.

A powerful versioning system which lets you compare document revisions and accept or reject individual changes.

Advanced productivity tools such as Mail Merge and macros.

Finally, embedding of spreadsheets and other objects:

Simply put, the features you need in an open and free package.

Example footnote

Copyright © 2004 Ian McIntosh.

Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

More information at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

OpenOffice.org Writer Example

This document serves as a description of OpenOffice.org Writer's features, while at the same time demonstrating many of those features.
It is intended to serve as example content for demo LiveCDs and to be used by those giving live one-on-one demonstrations.
Authors:
Ian McIntosh <ian_mcintosh@linuxadvocate.org>

2004-11-26T17:25:11