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About openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases.[6] OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software and is written using its own GUI toolkit. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. OpenOffice.org is a complete office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go.

How to Open a New Document
1.If you are on the desktop, then click Start followed by All Programs and OpenOffice.org 2.3, then click on OpenOffice.org Writer.
2.If you are already in the OpenOffice.org Writer program, then click File, then New and Text Document.
3.In either of these cases, the text document will appear on your screen entitled “Untitled1.”

Name a File and Save it
1.First click File, then click Save As and the “Save As” window will appear.
2.Under “Save In,” which is a pull-down menu, click “My Documents”, then click on the down arrow to open up the pull-down menu so that you can select “My Documents.”
3.Under the “File Name” menu, select “My First File” and then click Save.
4.“My first file — OpenOffice Writer” will appear at the top of your screen. This named file will still be opened up on your computer, and is in the text file format. The file has also been saved to your “My Documents” folder under this name.

How to Close Your File
1.To close a file, click on File and Close. This “My first file” file will close.
How to Open Another File
1.To open a new file, click on File and Open so that the open dialog appears.
2.Open up the look-in box by clicking on the down arrow, then select “My Documents” and select the “My first file” file. Click on Open.

Feature of openoffice.org
•Added locale data for Maithili (India)
•Added Yoruba (Nigeria) [yo-NG] to language list.
•Added Gikuyu (Kenya) [ki-KE] to language list.
•Added Rusyn (Slovakia) [rue-SK] and Rusyn (Ukraine) [rue-UA] to language list.
•Support for 'password to modify'. (Word 97 and Excel 97 binary documents only)
•Save file with password functionality needs to be extended by customer request. Beside the already implemented file encryption, an additional password to protect a document from being edited is implemented.
•Save file with password functionality needs to be extended by customer request. Beside the already implemented file encryption, an additional password to protect a document from being edited is implemented.

Operating systems
Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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