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| == For General Users == | |||
| Several freely downloadable or commercially available derivatives of OpenOffice are now available: | Several freely downloadable or commercially available derivatives of OpenOffice are now available: | ||
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| #*Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ | #*Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ | ||
| #**now (again) available for Mac OSX | #**now (again) available for Mac OSX | ||
| #sold  commercially | #(no longer) sold  commercially | ||
| #*IBM Smartsuite | #*IBM Smartsuite | ||
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| *PPT. | *PPT. | ||
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| === Documentation === | |||
| [[User:Rpeters|Rpeters]]15:34, 31 August 2012 (EST) | |||
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| *LibreOffice additionally provide conventional user guides that may be downloaded in dotODT or dotPDF format | |||
| http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ | |||
| Spreadsheet users having an extensive bank of, or needing to routinely interchange, Excel spreadsheets should be aware of the syntax and paradigm differences explained in: | |||
| https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Migration_Guide/Calc_and_Excel | |||
| Some operations behave differently in other modules, without affecting the display of documents or presentations.  See | |||
| https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Migration_Guide/General_Differences | |||
| === LibreOffice === | |||
| A major upgrade to version 5 was released in late 2015. | |||
| === Configuration === | |||
| Many settings can be set/changed via: | |||
|  -> Tools -> Options | |||
| If many documents will be interchanged with people who don't use OpenOffice then default format for saving can be set via | |||
|  -> Load/Save -> General | |||
| *then select the document format for text, spreadsheet etc docs | |||
| [[Category:Technical Info]] | |||
| * | |||
| [[Category:Recommendations]] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:23, 14 April 2016
For General Users
Several freely downloadable or commercially available derivatives of OpenOffice are now available:
- freely downloadable
- LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/
- Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/
- now (again) available for Mac OSX
 
 
- (no longer) sold  commercially
- IBM Smartsuite
 
All use the same document format and can import/export a range of documents as well
- DOC & dotDOCX documents
- XLS
- PPT.
Documentation
- comprhensive editing help is available via the HELP menu within openoffice variants
- LibreOffice additionally provide conventional user guides that may be downloaded in dotODT or dotPDF format
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
Spreadsheet users having an extensive bank of, or needing to routinely interchange, Excel spreadsheets should be aware of the syntax and paradigm differences explained in:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Migration_Guide/Calc_and_Excel
Some operations behave differently in other modules, without affecting the display of documents or presentations. See
LibreOffice
A major upgrade to version 5 was released in late 2015.
Configuration
Many settings can be set/changed via:
-> Tools -> Options
If many documents will be interchanged with people who don't use OpenOffice then default format for saving can be set via
-> Load/Save -> General
- then select the document format for text, spreadsheet etc docs

