
Thus a similar “look and feel,” across all components thus making it easy to use as office tools.
You will find Consistent User Interface in all the components of OpenOffice Suite. OpenOffice also provides support for both Complex Text Layout (CTL) and Right to Left (RTL) layout languages (such as Urdu, Hebrew, and Arabic). OpenOffice’s user interface is available in over 40 different languages, and the OOo project provides spelling, hyphenation, and thesaurus dictionaries in over 70 languages and dialects. As of June 2011, supports over 120 languages. OpenOffice runs on several hardware architectures Supported platforms include Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2 IRIX. You can use it across multiple Platform. Many features that are available as 'extra cost add-ins' in other office suites (like PDF export) are free with OpenOffice You can free to use, distribute, copy, and modify the software as much as you wish, in accordance with either of OpenOffice’s Open Source licenses. It is an Free and Open Source Software. It supports the ISO/IEC standardOpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems. As of December 2011, the project is officially known as Apache OpenOffice.It is now managed by Apache. Sun in 2010, was acquired by Oracle Corporation briefly continued developing which it renamed Oracle Open Office, but in 2011 the firm stopped supporting commercial development and contributed the suite to the Apache Incubator to become a project of the Apache Software Foundation. In August 1999, StarDivision was acquired by Sun Microsystems which released it as open source software under the name of Open Office. OpenOffice originated as StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed by German company StarDivision. It is an open-source office productivity software suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations,graphics, and databases.
Thers is another office productivity tool called, and often called OpenOffice or Ooo. You must have been working on Microsoft word for your job work.
Open Office is presently acquired by Apache