OpenOffice

For General Users

Several freely downloadable or commercially available derivatives of OpenOffice are now available:

1. freely downloadable
   • LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/
   • Apache OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/
     • now (again) available for Mac OSX
2. sold commercially
   • IBM Smartsuite

All use the same document format and can import/export a range of documents as well

• PDF
• 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)