OpenOffice.org is a powerful office suite that offers tools for all types of office tasks, such as writing texts, working with spreadsheets, or creating graphics and presentations. With OpenOffice.org, you can use the same data across different computing platforms. You can also open and edit files in Microsoft Office formats and then save them back to this format, if needed.
OpenOffice.org consists of several application modules which are designed to interact with each other:
This chapter only covers the basic skills needed to get started with OpenOffice.org. For more information, see the OpenOffice.org 1.x.x User Guide.