Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.
Features
- Cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
- 170+ Languages
- Extensions and Templates available
- Commercial support available
- New Sidebar
- Interoperability Improvements for Text Documents, Spreadhseet Documents, Presentation Documents and OOXML file format in general
- DrawObject Improvements/Enhancements
- New Color Palette
- New Gradients
- New Gallery Themes and Gallery enhancements
- Refined the Selection Handles User Interface
- Refined Selection Visualization
- Better Print Preview
- Enhanced conversion to Bitmap Graphics
- Enhanced Copy/Paste
- Enhanced Drag&Drop
- Adapt LineStart/End to LineWidth
- SVG Export enhancements
- SVG/Metafile Break improvement
- SVG Import improvements
- Picture Crop mode offers preview
- Unified visualization of ColorPalette popup
- Transparency support for pixel formats (PNG)
- Connectors support rotation
- Corrected Hatch fill style visualization
- Better gradient support in metafiles
- Calc and Chart Improvements/Enhancements
- Support relative Pie Chart Height
- New Functions: AVERAGEIFS, COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, XOR, LEFTB, RIGHTB, LENB, MIDB and RAND (reimplemented to use the Mersenne-Twister algorithm)
- Extensions Improvements/Enhancement
- New Toolbar management
- Unified menu API
- Performance Improvements/Enhancements
- Many resource leaks were fixed
- Speedup of Graphic Rendering
- Additional Language Support
- Changes that Impact Backwards Compatibility
- Module binfilter removed (legacy StarOffice file formats (.sdw, .sdc, .sdd, etc.)
- Python support updated
- Support for system C++ STL
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License
Apache License V2.0Other Useful Business Software
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I have been able to find answers when I have problems. One problem for me is that I can't add movies or audio files to impress.
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AOO 4.1.9 was released on February 7, 2021. Apache OpenOffice is still actively developed – cf. the mailing list for developers: www.mail-archive.com/dev@openoffice.apache.org/ – they just opened a repository for 4.2.0-dev3. As long as LibreOffice won't fix its font kerning in page view on Linux and macOS, I will stick to Apache OpenOffice. On Linux, I particularly like that AOO doesn't use Qt or Gtk but its own toolkit – this makes AOO less quirky than LO.
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OpenOffice is no longer being seriously developed, despite the propaganda. ** It has severe security issues **. Use LibreOffice instead, which has a far more vibrant development community, and a much better security track record - www.libreoffice.org
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Love it very easy
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Most of us use word processing and spreadsheet programs to create charts, databases, letters, resumes, mail merge for labels or envelopes, and maybe an occasional special project with a table insert. There's no need to pay for Microsoft products when you can do it all with the same - or easier - workflow on the free open source software, Open Office. If you've used Word or Excel in the past, you'll pick it up right away, since functions are similar. Most open source softwares require the user to compromise with features or user friendliness. This is not the case with Open Office. Highly recommended. I can't find a single bad thing to say (or a single reason to pay for a word processing or database software.)
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