Starting OpenOffice.org
The office suite OpenOffice.org offers a complete set of office tools,
including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, and
database components. Because OpenOffice.org is available for a number of
operating systems, you can use the same data across different computing
platforms.
To start OpenOffice.org in the word processor view, press Alt+F2 and
enter oowriter. Alternatively, start OpenOffice.org
Writer from the main menu. To create a new document, select and choose
the type of document to create. To open an existing document, select
and choose the appropriate file from the file
system.