What is OpenOffice?
OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, community-developed, multi-platformoffice productivity suite. It includes the desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, formulaeditor 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. Languages available in OpenOffice.org_110n-* packages include: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Sweddish, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Danish, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Catalan, Arab, Slovak. Localised help files available in OpenOffice.org-help* packages include English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Sweddish, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Japanese, Korean and chinese. Spell-checking and hyphenation dictionaries are available in myspell-* and myspell-hyph-*packages, respectively.
OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, community-developed, multi-platformoffice productivity suite. It includes the desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, formulaeditor 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. Languages available in OpenOffice.org_110n-* packages include: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Sweddish, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Danish, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Catalan, Arab, Slovak. Localised help files available in OpenOffice.org-help* packages include English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Sweddish, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Japanese, Korean and chinese. Spell-checking and hyphenation dictionaries are available in myspell-* and myspell-hyph-*packages, respectively.
differences between openoffice n microsoft office
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Article
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OpenOffice.org
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Microsoft
Office
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Interface
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Similar
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Similar
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Easily
to use
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Yes
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Yes
(or No if users are always use the older version like 2003)
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Copyright
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Free
to use
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Can
try for 30 days. If you want to use you must buy them.( costs several hundred
dollars to purchase a software license)
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Extension
of file saving
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Same
as the another (Support ODF extension)
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Same
as the another
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Computer
Specification
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Medium
Performance Computer can use it (Must have Java Runtime Environment to use)
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Medium
Performance Computer can use it. But Microsoft Office 2007 aren't recommended
for low performance computer
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Manufacture
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Sun
Microsystems Inc
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Microsoft
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About
PDF Files
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Can
convert files to PDF format by itself
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Must
use program to convert to PDF
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Compatible
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Can
use it in Windows, Linux, Mac(Must use X11), Solaris
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Can
use in Windows, Mac
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Files
Opening
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Can't
open files from microsoft office correctly
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Can
open files correctly
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Files
size
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Native
format is small file size
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Microsoft
Office's files are
bigger
than OpenOffice
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Programs
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Offer
less programs
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Has
more versions geared towards business
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Popularity
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Not
that popular
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Over
half a billion people using it worldwide
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Free
online version
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Not
provided
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Provided
in Microsoft Web Apps,in 2010
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Supports
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in many
different file types
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only
Microsoft Office
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