Blair Armeau

OpenOffice.org Suite

The Suite Advantage

OpenOffice.org is more than a collection of five superb tools.

Unlike some competitors, this suite was not created from a collection of separate pieces of software. From the start, it was designed as one complete office package.

• All the packages have a similar ‘look and feel’ making them very easy to use, with common ‘learn once use everywhere’ tools like the Navigator and Stylist.
• The same tools are used consistently across the suite – for example, the tools you use to work with graphics within Writer are also found in Impress and Draw.
• You don’t need to know which application was used to create a particular file – you can ‘File Open’ any OpenOffice.org file from anywhere and the correct application will be launched.
• All the packages share a common spell-checker, etc.; and if you change an ‘Option’ in one package, it’s changed in them all.
• Information can be transferred easily between all the packages.
• All packages save data in the same industry-standard XML format, with substantial disk space savings compared to common proprietary formats.
• All the packages are installed in one single operation.
• All the packages are released under the same open licensing model – there are no hidden charges now or in the future.