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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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Revision as of 03:33, 18 January 2015
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
- 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 a conventional user guides that may be downloaded in dotODT or dotPDF format
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
LibreOffice
A major upgrade to version 4 was released in February 2013.
- significant change in menu structures
- conversion guide available from above documentation repository
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
Rod12:29, 11 March 2013 (EST)
