OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is an open-source office suite, including a applications for word processing, presentations, vector graphics, formula editing, spreadsheet calculations, and databases. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, various Unix systems with the X Window System, GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.

As an open-source package OpenOffice.org is available at no cost. It is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). OpenOffice.org supports as default the Open Document Format(ODF), however, it is also compatible with Microsoft Office for reading and writing all types of Microsoft Office documents. This makes it easy to exchange documents with people that use the market leading office suite.

Various versions of OpenOffice.org exist:

StarOffice is a commercial product by Sun Microsystems based on OpenOffice.org, adding commercial components such as additional fonts and improved spell checking dictionaries.
NeoOffice is an open source version for Mac OS X that adds full support for the Aqua user interface. The general ports of OOo to Mac OS X require an X Window extension that does use it's own look and feel for user interactions.
OpenOffice.org Novell Edition is an open source version and maintained by Novell. It adds new components that are developed by Novell Inc. and donated back to the full project, but haven't made it yet back into the general code base.

Using OpenOffice.org

The following screencasts demonstrate how to start using OpenOffice.org:

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