Word Processing - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - APPLICATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Application Manual

29.1.1 Office Suites
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is a stable open source equivalent to Microsoft Office including a
word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a database manager (Base), a presen-
tation manager (Impress), a drawing program (Draw), and a formula editor for
generating mathematical equations and formulas (Math). The user interface is
similar to the Microsoft Office suite. For more details, see
.openoffice.org/
(page 3).
StarOffice
StarOffice, a proprietary office suite software developed by Sun Microsystems, is
similar to OpenOffice.org. It is available on multiple platforms like Linux, Windows
and Solaris. It contains the same modules as the OpenOffice.org suite. It includes
certain advanced features not available with the open source version. For more
details, see http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/.
KOffice
KOffice is the fully integrated office suite designed for the KDE desktop. It comes
with various modules, like word processing (KWord), spreadsheets (KSpread),
presentations (Kpresenter), several image processing applications (Kivio, Karbon14,
Krita), a database front-end (Kexi) and many other applications. For more details,
see http://www.koffice.org/.

29.1.2 Word Processing

Writer
Writer is the stable word-processing and desktop publishing module of the
OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. The StarOffice Writer features some advanced
functionalities not available with OpenOffice.org. For more details, see
www.openoffice.org/product/writer
www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice.
KWord
KWord is the stable frame-based word-processing module of the KOffice Suite.
KWord's easy-to-use features help you to create professional looking documents
Chapter 1, The OpenOffice.org Office Suite
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