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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Calligra is a free, office suite. Homepage https://www.calligra.org/<br />
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Its main advantage compared with LibreOffice/OpenOffice is smaller packages, which might run better on older/lower-spec hardware.<br />
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Its native document format is ODF and it can import/export a range of documents as well<br />
*PDF<br />
*DOC(x)<br />
*XLS(x)<br />
*PPT(x)<br />
*various graphics formats<br />
*as well as some older formats<br />
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== For General Users ==<br />
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The Windows version is experimental and not suitable for general users. Stable versions of the following are suitable alternatives<br />
*LibreOffice 5.x http://www.libreoffice.org/ and<br />
*OpenOffice 4.x http://www.openoffice.org/<br />
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Calligra is based on KDE desktop. Installation to other desktops is possible, requiring that approximately 80 MB of additional dependencies be downloaded<br />
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It is available in most major Linux distributions - most reliable way to install it would be via the distributions software manager.<br />
*the version for KDE 4 is stable and perhaps the best choice for new users<br />
*a compilation for Frameworks 5 is available but not completely stable and not recommended for viewing/editing important documents, at this juncture<br />
**the Stage and Words modules are fairly usable<br />
**Kexi and Sheets are usable for only simple databases and spreadsheets respectively <br />
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=== Documentation ===<br />
A disadvantage, compared with LibreOffice and OpenOffice is that Help menu might not work. Help can be accessed from a separate web page:<br />
https://docs.kde.org/index.php?language=en&package=calligra from which PDF versions can also be downloaded<br />
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