2.12 Opening or Creating Documents with OpenOffice.org

The office suite OpenOffice.org offers a complete set of office tools including a 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. You can also open and edit files in Microsoft Office formats then save them back to this format, if needed.

Start OpenOffice.org from the main menu or click the Office icon on the desktop. You can also start individual components, like the word processor, by pressing Alt+F2 and entering oowriter.

For an introduction to OpenOffice.org, see Section 1.0, The OpenOffice.org Office Suite, (↑ Application Guide ) or view the help in an OpenOffice.org program.