2. About OpenOffice.org
OO.org is an open source and full featured
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office suite
created by Star Division, a German company
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purchased by Sun Microsystems in 1999 and
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later released as an open source project
StarOffice is Sun's commercial version of
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OO.org. It includes additional components but
the base is from OO.org
OO.org uses the open document format, an
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approved ISO format
3. About OpenOffice.org
Why use OO.org?
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Free as in cost and Free as in freedom
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Available in many platforms. Windows, Linux,
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MacOs, etc.
it will not lock-in your data. OO.org uses ODF, an
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ISO approved standard used by other applications
like:
Star Office
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K Office
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IBM Workplace (soon Lotus Notes)
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Abiword
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Gnumeric
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4. About OpenOffice.org
Who uses OO.org?
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City of Birmingham, UK
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Ministry of Defense, Singapore
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City of Massachusetts in the USA is migrating their
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documents to ODF format
University of the Philippines
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Prudentialife
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Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Inc.
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Davao Light & Power Corp.
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NCCC
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5. Applications included in OO.org
Writer – a word processing application for creating
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primarily text-based documents
Calc – a spreadsheet program used for calculations,
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charting, numerical analysis, etc.
Impress – a multi-media presentation tool
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Draw – a vector graphics drawing application for
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desktop publishing
Base – a database application
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Math – used for creating mathematical formulas and
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equations
6. Installation
Hardware Recommendations
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At least 800 Mhz CPU
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At least 256 Mb RAM
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Windows Installation
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Download from http://www.openoffice.org
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Double-click on the file and follow the installation
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wizard
save installer in your USB drive and share with
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friends
Linux - installed by default in most distributions
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7. Beginning OO.org
Important Concepts
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OBJECTS
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everything in OO.org is an object
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objects have attributes or properties
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attributes or properties of an object can be modified
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modification can be done using the menu bar, the tool
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bars, or from the context-based menu bar that pops up
when you right click on an object
8. Beginning OO.org
STYLES
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a set of common attributes or properties
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