Working With Documents; The Openofﬁce.org Suite - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - STEP BY STEP GUIDE Manual

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes several tools for managing all of your documents. Whether you are

preparing for a presentation, writing a formal letter, or opening a document from an email attachment,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a tool that suits your needs.

7.1. The OpenOfﬁce.org Suite

Productivity suites are collections of applications designed to save time and assist users at work, at

school, and at home. Usually, productivity suites are graphical and include such applications as word

processors, spreadsheets, and presentation utilities. The applications that comprise a productivity suite

are integrated — which means that you can, for example, write a document with an embedded chart

created by the spreadsheet application as well as a slide from a graphical presentation application.

Integration of the software that make up a productivity suite helps you to give impact to your presen-

tations, lectures, or printed collateral.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a powerful business productivity suite called OpenOfﬁce.org,

which incorporates several complementary applications into one integrated package. Using OpenOf-

ﬁce.org is much faster and easier than learning complex tags and code to format your documents and

presentations. It allows you complete control over the layout and content of your documents and lets

you see the results as you edit it. This real-time, visual form of document formatting is called what

you see is what you get (or WYSIWYG) editing.

7.1.1. OpenOfﬁce.org Features

The OpenOfﬁce.org suite contains several applications for creating and editing documents, spread-

sheets, business presentations, and artwork. It includes templates, forms, and wizards for creating

basic professional documents and presentations quickly. If you have ever worked with or received

ﬁles, you know they are commonly associated with the Microsoft Ofﬁce suite. The

.doc

.xls

OpenOfﬁce.org suite is able to read, edit, and create ﬁles in several formats, including ﬁles which

are commonly associated with Microsoft Ofﬁce. Table 7-1 shows the many different types of ﬁles you

can use and tasks you can accomplish with the OpenOfﬁce.org suite.

Application

OpenOfﬁce.org

Writer

OpenOfﬁce.org

Calc

OpenOfﬁce.org

Impress

OpenOfﬁce.org

Draw

Table 7-1. OpenOfﬁce.org Features

As you can see, the OpenOfﬁce.org suite has many ﬁle compatibility features, and allows you to

File Compatibility

.sxw

.sdw

.doc

.htm/.html

.sxc

.dbf

.xls

.csv

.htm/.html

.sxi

.ppt

.sxd

; export ﬁles to several

.sxd

.sda

image formats, including

, and

.gif

.png