MS office is the giant out there in office applications. It was Microsoft’s domain and still continues to be theirs. However a small dent has been created by this now popular totally free office package called openoffice.org.
Open Office Sun and the Open Office:
Few years back Sun Micro Systems bought a company called Star Office which supplied an office application package called Star Office. Later on Sun has worked on this application to create a completely open source program.
Open source or open-source software (OSS) is any computer software distributed under a license which allows users to change and /or share the software freely.
More about Open office.org:
Openoffice.org is also the name of the website which distributes this application over the Internet. It has a word processor like MS Word, a spread sheet program like MS Excel and a presentation program like MS Power point. Hence all that you can do you can do in MS office can be done in open office.org too. In addition to this, it is fully office compatible. You can open any MS Office files on the fly from inside Open Office.
Also, open office can be permanently configured to save all files in MS Office format so that the files you make in open office are instantly compatible with MS Office type file formats.
Available under Linux OS too.
Be warned that when you open an MS Office format file made originally in MS Office and make changes to them you may be faced with some compatibility issues. The point is although open office.org is fully compatible with MS Office formats, it must be remembered that it is not the same. Hence some issues while working with complex files or files that utilise advanced MS Office features might remain.
However when you create and work with native open office or open office crated MS office format files, things are always very smooth.
Open Office.org is available under Lnux OS also. Downloading of this great alternative to the MS Office can be done from openoffice.org web site.
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