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OpenOffice Support at SLAC |
OpenOffice 1.0 is now installed at
SLAC, and can be easily used on Linux, Solaris, and Windows
platforms. This is supported for BaBar users for the moment,
although all users at slac can use the software.
Quickstart for Linux and Solaris
Quickstart for Windows
What is OpenOffice?
This is a package of applications to
provide Word Processing, Spread Sheet, Presentation, Charting, and
Drawing capabilities. It is probably the easiest to use and best
package of these applications available for the Linux and Solaris
platforms. Also the fact that is an open source project, and can be
easily installed for all machines on site (and off site) is a clear bonus.
OpenOffice has a clear strength in the
fact that it is fully compatible with Microsoft Office and StarOffice
documents. On the Linux and Solaris platforms this now gives you the
ability to interact with people using Microsoft Office on Windows.
There is another clear strength to
OpenOffice, beyond the cross platform support and support for
documents from other Office packages, and that is the native document
format for OpenOffice are well defined XML text files. Anything you
save in OpenOffice can be read and edited with other programs, your
data and documents are not out of your control and locked into the
use of a given package to just be able to see what you have done.
Programs OpenOffice provides:
- Calc - a spread sheet program
- Draw - a drawing program
- Impress - a presentation program
- Math - a math formula editor
- Writer - a word processing program
This page is maintained by
Douglas Smith
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