Apache OpenOffice.org
is the free open-source productivity suite that rivals Microsoft's
Office suite, the business world's standard. OpenOffice.org is
compatible with most Office documents and many other file types. Like
Office, it's a collection of powerful tools, but you don't have to
install all its modules. The latest version of OpenOffice.org supports
Windows 8.
Clicking the
OpenOffice.org icon produced a quick-start page that let us open
documents, spreadsheets, formulas, and databases. We started with a new
document in Writer, the suite's word processor. We quickly created a
document and clicked Save to see our options. Writer offered 12 choices,
including its proprietary ODF file format (.odt) as well as four Word
standards, HTML, text, text encoded, and rich text. Not every format is
completely compatible, though. Nevertheless, Writer offers as much as
any top word processor. Impress is a presentation wizard, while Draw is a
capable graphics editor. Calc is OpenOffice.org's Excel-compatible
spreadsheet tool, and Base generates and accesses databases via the
Database Wizard. Math is one of OpenOffice.org's advantages over Office:
it's a standalone equation editor that can also insert formulas as
objects into Writer.
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