Open Office

Computer Systems Guide
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oocalc

oowriter

OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, community-developed, multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, formula editor and drawing program, 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 Microsoft Office.
Usage: Simply type "ooffice" to run OpenOffice.org or select the requested component (Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, etc.) from your desktop menu. The ooffice wrapper script will install a few files in the user's home, if necessary.
Note that this release does not support GPC polygon clipping, but instead uses libart to do the same thing.

The OpenOffice.org team hopes you enjoy working with OpenOffice.org!"

-- Package description from OpenOffice via "rpm -qi openoffice.org" command.

Open Office is available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X (under X11). Under Fedora Linux you can list the files in the Open Office package with the command "rpm -ql openoffice.org".

Using OpenOffice

OpenOffice may be run at any time using the command:

	$ ooffice

A specific Open Office application can be launched from the command line, each app specializes in a different office facility:

oocalc: A spreadsheet for operating with numbers
oodraw: A vector illustration package
ooimpress: Create slides and presentations
oomath: Typeset mathematical equations
oowriter: Word processing

For example, you can start the word processor directly by running the command:

	$ oowriter

math.umn.edu/systems_guide/openoffice11-manual/
Last Modified September 15, 2006
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