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This article was written by Don VanSyckel, the club president, as a part of "The President's Pen". This article appeared in the October 2005 WYSIWYG newsletter. OpenOffice.Org by Don VanSyckel I've loaded OpenOffice.Org (pronounced Open Office dot Org) on both my laptop and desktop. What's that? OpenOffice.Org is an open source software package that's available for free from www.OpenOffice.org. Open source software is written by volunteers, many with a passion to make it happen. The source code of open source software if available for free if you want it. Most open source projects make a runnable version available so we all don't have to learn how to make a runnable program from source code; this runnable version is also free. As you might guess OpenOffice.Org offers office applications for word processing (MS Word), spreadsheet (MS Excel), and presentations (MS PowerPoint). These packages do not 'clone' the MS packages in all ways. What they do offer is most of the functionality of the MS packages, all of the commonly used functionality. The OpenOffice.Org software will choose to read and write their own formats but can read and write MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, WordPerfect file types, and others.
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