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Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc ----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a
----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes are made and the byline, copyright, and theresource box below is included. ----------------------------------------------------------A Powerful and Free Office SuiteBy Stephen BucaroOpen Office is a free open-source office suite that notonly competes with Microsoft Office, but can open and saveMicrosoft Office file formats. It was created using codedeveloped by Sun Microsystems for their Star Office product.Open Office includes a word processor, spreadsheet,presentation manager, drawing application and severalother applications. There are versions for Windows, Linux,Mac, and Solaris.Open Office is easy to use because the interface issimilar to other office suites. Naturally, the first thingI had to try was the drawing program. Within seconds I wasable to create 3D textured text and complex textured 3Dobjects.Why switch to Open Office? Because now is the time to freeyourself from Microsoft's Monopoly. If you are not preparedto jump right to Linux, Open Office makes a good transition.You can work with Microsoft Office file formats in OpenOffice. Then when you switch to the Linux, you can continueto work with Microsoft Office file formats in Open Office.At the OpenOffice.org website, www.openoffice.org, thereare links to download version 1.0, and version 1.1 beta2.Version 1.1 adds PDF and Macromedia Flash export; DockBook,PDA offic-file formats, and flat XML and XHTML.When you click on the link to download a version for youroperating system, you are taken to a chart of FTP servershosting the download. For example, if you are located inthe USA you would click on the Indiana U link.If your operating system is Windows, you download a 60 MBzip file. With a 56K modem, it might take three hours todownload. You'll need a zip file extraction utility touncompress the download. The most popular zip fileextractor for Windows is WinZip. You can download theWinZip trial version from www.winzip.comThe Linux version comes in a 70 MB "tarball". With Linux,you can open a terminal window and use the "tar" commandto uncompress the download. Both versions come with aneasy to use setup program. If installing on a multi-usersystem, like Windows 2000 or Linux, make sure you arelogged in with Administrator rights before you installthe program.During installation, Open Office may inform you that itcan't find a Java runtime environment. Certain featuresrequire a Java Runtime environment to function. I don'tknow what features those are (not the 3D textured graphics)You could go to Suns Java Website, java.sun.com, todownload and install the Java Runtime environment beforeyou install Open Office.You can continue to work with Microsoft Office fileformats without the excessive cost and frequent crashes.Open Office is easy to use and you can even create 3Dtextured text and complex textured 3D objects. Downloadthis powerful and free open-source office suite today.----------------------------------------------------------Resource Box:Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. To learn how to maintainyour computer and use it more effectively to design a Website and make money on the Web visithttp://bucarotechelp.comTo subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter Send a blankemail to mailto:bucarotechelp-subscribe@topica.com---------------------------------------------------------- Article Tags: Office File Formats, Java Runtime Environment, Free Office, Office Suite, Microsoft Office, Office File, File Formats, Open Office, Java Runtime, Runtime Environment
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