The OpenOffice suite is a freeware set of office tools similar to those in Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org is based on Sun’s StarOffice code but is not tied to the proprietary Sun application in any way. The suite consists of a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation package, formula editor, drawing program, data charting application, HTML editor, and file filters that enable the importing and exporting of various formats. Obviously, OpenOffice.org contains everything you’d expect in an office suite. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case with the original StarOffice.

OpenOffice main packages.

1. swriter : The OpenOffice word processor
2. scalc : The OpenOffice spreadsheet application
3. smath : The OpenOffice formula editor/creator
4. sweb : The OpenOffice HTML editor
5. simpress: The OpenOffice presentation package

It is Available in over 65 supported languages with more being constantly added by the community, OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), Windows, Mac OS X (X11), and numerous other platforms.
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