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Taking A Look At OpenOffice On Linux.



OpenOffice is an open source alternative to Microsoft Office. It’s free to use. Here I take you though both the installation and how to install on Linux. Then I take a look at the features it has.

00:00 Linux
05:34 Getting OpenOffice
10:22 How To Install
17:00 Restart Computer
22:00 Features
27:40 Updating OpenOffice
30:10 Microsoft Agent Characters
34:38 Microsoft Fonts
36:56 Summary

OpenOffice can be downloaded from here.
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26 Comments

  1. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, and I think OpenOffice is no longer maintained. You can configure how the interface looks in LibreOffice, the ribbon system can be changed back to the more traditional toolbar-based interface as seen in OpenOffice. I personally would recommend people to just use LibreOffice over OpenOffice, since LibreOffice is up-to-date and probably offers better support with other office-suite formats like Microsoft Office, WPS Office, etc.

  2. I might be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that open/libre office still comes installed on ubuntu desktop by default. I know it did on 18.04. I think you still have to select that you want a full installation with multimedia support etc… but I'm fairly certain it still comes with it.

  3. ive used Open Office for a while as a Windows user who refuses to pay whatever amount MS is charging nowadays to have basic office functionality wo using programs in the cloud. i switched to Libre coz its more up to date and less clunky in some ways. but for someone who just needs to occasionally open a word/excel document, they do just fine.

  4. Libre Office and Open Office not being able to be on the same machine is one of those mini issues that a lot (not all) of us Linux users can look past, but isn't a reasonable shortcoming for non-Linux people.

  5. OpenOffice is a great alternative. It's good for those who want a lighter LibreOffice. We used it at school, all my school computers had Linux (Kubuntu I think with KDE Plasma 3 at the time), we were taught how to use it with GIMP! I think more schools should teach kids how to use Linux!

  6. This is cool, but you should be wary of running OpenOffice in 2014, as it has not received security updates in 10 years.

    I'd suggest switching to LibreOffice; it's based on OpenOffice but it still gets updates and new features.

  7. Can you not use flatpak LO so they don't clash?
    P.S. LibreOffice Draw is a 'kind of' pdf viewer – but opens them by default in 'edit pdf mode' and sometimes interprets the pdf file in an 'odd' way.

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