You've probably heard of OpenOffice, but how about "OxygenOffice?"
Open Office is the free open-source office productivity suite, analogous to and largely compatible with Microsoft Office.
There used to be a "Premium" version with extra features that cost some money. I lost track of it, after a while.
I recently rediscovered it, now called Oxygen Office Professional. It's much more complete than the standard OO suite. OxygenOffice will even read and write the new xml-based file formats used by MS Office 2007: docx, pptx, etc.
Oxygen Office Professional
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=840436
Try this link- http://go-oo.org/. I believe its based on the 3.0 tree.
ReplyDeleteThe Go-oo link in the above is to another tool based on OO. But Go-OO is deisgned to speed up OO.
ReplyDeleteOxygen Office linked by Fred is different. It has extra functions and features (clipart & templates mostly) rolled in.
However as alluded to by prev tipper oxygen Office hasn't been updated since June08 and is based on an old 2.4 build of OO which is now up to 3.0
As such for new users just get OO direct and/or keep an eye on Oxygen for a new release
Oh and I forgot to add - the 'paid' version of OO has always been StarOffice http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/
ReplyDeleteIt was at one stage inc free in the Google Pack - but not anymore it seems
http://pack.google.com/intl/en-gb/pack_installer.html?hl=en-gb