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#*Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ |
#*Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ |
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#**now (again) available for Mac OSX |
#**now (again) available for Mac OSX |
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=== Documentation === |
=== Documentation === |
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*comprhensive editing help is available via the HELP menu within openoffice variants |
*comprhensive editing help is available via the HELP menu within openoffice variants |
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| − | *LibreOffice additionally provide |
+ | *LibreOffice additionally provide conventional user guides that may be downloaded in dotODT or dotPDF format |
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ |
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ |
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| + | 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: |
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| − | *significant change in menu structures |
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| − | *conversion guide available from above documentation repository |
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| + | https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Migration_Guide/Calc_and_Excel |
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| + | Some operations behave differently in other modules, without affecting the display of documents or presentations. See |
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| + | https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Migration_Guide/General_Differences |
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=== Configuration === |
=== Configuration === |
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If many documents will be interchanged with people who don't use OpenOffice then default format for saving can be set via |
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*then select the document format for text, spreadsheet etc docs |
*then select the document format for text, spreadsheet etc docs |
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[[Category:Technical Info]] |
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[[Category:Recommendations]] |
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Latest revision as of 08:23, 15 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
