OpenOffice, a tour of a Free Office Suite

OpenOffice is a great free program that you can download online and is a great alternative for those that do not want to purchase a Microsoft Office Suite. It is also mostly compatible with Microsoft Office.

To download this program, visit OpenOffice website and follow the directions to correctly install onto your computer. Once you have installed OpenOffice and open it up, you will see many options very similar to Microsoft Office. Text Document is similar to Word, Spreadsheet is similar to Excel, Presentation is similar to PowerPoint, Drawing is similar to Publisher, Database is similar to Access, but OpenOffice does also include a program called Formula which can be very useful and is not included in Microsoft Office.

Now be sure to remember that OpenOffice will do just about all the basic things that Microsoft Office will, but does not hold all the features. The nice thing is it allows you to easily go back and forth from both by saving files in the same format.

If you want to make sure that the older versions of Microsoft Office will open your document, save your document in the .doc format instead of the new .odt format.

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