Open Office contains programs that are similar to the Microsoft Office suite of program, the big difference is Open Office is FREE!
Yes, they really are FREE and it really is a grrrreat suite of programs. There isn’t a lot more to say. Please read below the comments directly from the Open Office home pages. Open Office has been around for over 20 years, over 100,000,000 programs have been downloaded and it is available internationally in many languages. I use it and I like it!! Check it out! A lot of us like it better than Microsoft Office &…. It really is FREE!
The suite includes: Writer word processor; Calc spreadsheet; Impress presentations; Draw graphics; Base database. Screen shots, instructions and help is readily available online.
Go to: http://www.openoffice.org/
“On October 28th 2009, the one hundred millionth person clicked on the Download OpenOffice.org button…”
"Great Software requires great people. OpenOffice.org 3 is the result of over twenty years' continuous high quality software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, OpenOffice.org 3 has a consistency and a quality that is world class. Its open-source development model means there are no secrets. OpenOffice.org 3 is free software. That means you are free to download it, free to install it on as many PCs as you like, free to pass copies to as many people as you like. You may use OpenOffice.org 3 for any purpose without restriction: private, educational, public administration, commercial... Free, really free."
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Developed over twenty years, OpenOffice.org is a mature, reliable, product. OpenOffice.org was designed from the start as a single piece of software - not bolted together from separate software packages. This makes it very consistent and easy to use - what you learn in one application is immediately usable in another. The context-sensitive help works across all applications, unobtrusively providing the precise help you need. You can even open any type of document from any application - OpenOffice.org 3 is really one piece of software. It also runs on all major computing platforms - Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Apple Mac - isn't that great!
Tell Everyone! It's FREE !!
Tell Everyone! It's FREE !!
