Open Office WriterComputer Training Programme

Speaker

Kumardeep Chaudhary

17th September 2014 (Wednesday)

What is Open Office?

OpenOffice.org is a free download you can get it at www.openoffice.org.

A suite of 6 programs that perform the same or similar tasks as those in Microsoft Office.

Open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use.

Its Free with The LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) license.

Means you can:

install it on any number of computers.

use it for any purpose.

make copies and give them away.

OpenOffice.org components

• Word processor (Writer)

• Spreadsheet (Calc)

• Presentation application (Impress)

• Drawing application (Draw)

• Formula editor (Math)

• Database management application (Base)

What is Writer?

• The word processor component of OpenOffice.org

• Free alternative to Windows' MS Word .

• Can be used to create documents such as reports and letters

• File extension is .odt

MICROSOFT OPEN OFFICE

Developed by a single vendor Open source software is developed collaboratively.

Microsoft Office 2013, on the other hand, costs from $139.99 to $399.99 depending on the edition.

OpenOffice and LibreOffice are both free.

Only install it on a specified number of computers within your organization.

Download and install the software on as many machines as you like.

Microsoft doesn't offer anything comparable

Customize the code to your needs

Usability and Interface

System RequirementsMICROSOFT OPEN OFFICE

1GB RAM for 32-bit computers (2GB for 64-bit machines)

LibreOffice 4.0 and Open Office 4.0 need just 256MB of RAM(although both recommend 512MB)

need Java installed to take advantage of certain features

Office 2013 also requires Windows 7 or 8 to run fully

LibreOffice and OpenOffice will run on older Windows versions, including XP or Vista, and

OpenOffice can even run on Windows 2003.

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Both open source suites will run on most Mac computers running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher

not allowed on LINUX Cross-platform compatibilityOpen Office and LibreOffice will run on a Linux system

• For open office Writer, the file type will be in “.odt” (Open Document Text) but can read and write files using Microsoft's format such as .DOC or .DOCX formats .

• Advantage of .odt format is the file size will be smaller.

• Can open files saved in substantially older versions of Microsoft Office than Office 2013 .

• Can even open corrupted Word files that Office 2013 can’t open.

• Export any file as a PDF, ensuring that viewers see the document exactly as you intended.

Document Sharing

Specific Features: A Comparison

• Grammar Checking. LibreOffice have built-in grammar-checking tools.  

• Conditional Formatting Ability to automatically format cells based on the properties of the data within them.

• Suite-Wide interface Provides a gateway to easily access any of the individual components, while users need to open each Office 2013 application separately.

• File Size. In general, the native formats of OpenOffice and LibreOffice will create smaller files than Office 2013.

• HTML Production. create and edit files in HTML, the coding language behind the web.

Extended Help

Setting Page margins

Adding Page Numbers

Adding Default Footer First

Inserting Page number

Inserting Page Count to

compare with total Pages

Inserted Page number with page count.

Setting Graphics• No Wrap Text is placed above and below the image but not around it

• Page Wrap or Optimal Page Wrap The text flows around the image. Moving the image around the page causes the text to be rearranged to fill the space to the left and right of it.

• Wrap Through Superimposes the image on the text. That is, the image is above the text.

• Background the image is placed below the text so there may be no need to change the transparency to make the text visible.

Adding Formulas to word Document

Enter formula here.

Tracking Changes

• When multiple people are working on a document or project, Writer has a feature that allows changes in the document to be tracked by user.

Select Record

Tracking Changes • When multiple people are working on a document or project,

Writer has a feature that allows changes in the document to be tracked by user.

Select Record

Compare two Documents

Compare two Documents

Adding Reference

Adding Bibliography

Hindi Support

Why is open office not as popular as MS office?• Network effect.

• Through word-of-mouth effect.

• People may not understand the benefit of open source .

• People do not trust the reliability of open source software.

“Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in free speech, not as in 'free beer'.” -Richard M.

Stallman

Thank you