org software for free is that you get
a bunch of extras with StarOffice. The extras include a spell-checker, clip art, many more file converters
(although the best ones are for converting Microsoft formats), a database module, and technical
support.
OpenOffice.org is an open source project sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Sun takes
the shared source code used to create OpenOffice.org and combines it with other modules
to produce the StarOffice suite. This is very similar to Mozilla, an open source Web browser, and
Netscape, a commercial product built from the Mozilla sources.
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Using AbiWord
The AbiWord word processor is a very nice, free word processor from the AbiSource project
(www.abisource.com). If you are starting documents from scratch, AbiWord includes many of
the basic functions you need to create good-quality documents.
With AbiWord, you can select the type of document the file contains, and select to read the file in
the following formats:
AbiWord (.abw)
GZipped AbiWord (.zabw)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
Microsoft Word (.doc)
UTF8 (.utf8)
Text (.txt)
In addition, AbiWord can import and export ODF, DocBook, and OpenOffice.org files.
AbiWord doesn??™t yet import all these file types cleanly.
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