org is a big step toward removing that obstacle. You
can use a program such as WINE that (among other things) allows you to run versions of Microsoft
Office directly on your Linux PC, but for the vast majority of users there is no reason to bother
doing so. In this section we take a high-level overview of the suite and spend a little time examining
one of the more commonly used elements, Writer (the word processor), in some detail.
Many distributions of Linux include the entire OpenOffice.org suite of desktop applications. Some
include the StarOffice suite in addition to or in lieu of OpenOffice.org. If neither is present, you
can always download and install OpenOffice.org from its Web site, www.openoffice.org.
StarOffice is commercial software and can be purchased from www.sun.com.
At the time of this writing, the latest version of OpenOffice is 2.2.1. Version 2.3 is in
development.
OpenOffice.org, which shares its source code with StarOffice, consists of the following officeproductivity
applications:
Writer??”A word-processing application that can work with documents in file formats
from Microsoft Word, StarOffice, and several others. Writer also has a full set of features
for using templates, working with fonts, navigating your documents, including images
and effects, and generating tables of contents.
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