Friday, August 7, 2009

Thing #18 OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org provides open source software such as word processing spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. Since it is open source it doesn't cost anything. :) It has many of the same features seen in Microsoft Office but is free and you can download it on as many computers as you would like. In the Writer program, the software using many of the texting capability such as predicting what word you are writing at times. Many years of development have gone in to creating this open source product and anyone is able to report bugs and it is taken care of.

There are several different applications to use. Writer is for word processing, Calc is for creating spreadsheets, Impress is for creating presentations such as slide shows, Draw is for creating graphics and diagrams, Base allows you to "manipulate database data seamlessly."

Check out open source software for yourself: http://www.OpenOffice.org

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