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OpenOffice.org Writer
Developer(s)Sun Microsystems, community
Stable release
3.0.1 / January 27, 2009 (2009-01-27)
Operating systemCross platform
TypeWord processor
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public Licence
Websitewww.openoffice.org

OpenOffice.org Writer is the word processor component of the OpenOffice.org software package. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some of their features

As with the entire OpenOffice.org suite, Writer can be used across a variety of platforms, including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Irix and Solaris. Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, Writer is free software.

Features

Writer is capable of opening and saving documents in a number of formats, including the OASIS Open Document Format 1.1 (its default format), Microsoft Word's DOC, DOCX, RTF and XHTML.

Writer provides a number of features not present in Word out of the box, including the ability to export to the PDF format natively, though that functionality can be added to Microsoft Word 2007 via free download. It also includes a word completion mechanism for predictive writing that is not available in Microsoft Word as of June, 2008.[citation needed]

Features include:

  • AutoCorrect
  • AutoComplete
  • Styles and Formatting
  • Text Frames and Linking
  • Tables of Contents
  • Indexing
  • Bibliographical References
  • Illustrations
  • Tables

Though OpenOffice.org Writer has a spell checker, it lacks a built-in grammar checker, which is available only as an extension since version 3.0.[1]

Writer's mail merge functions, although substantially rewritten in 2.0, are still less flexible than those of other word processors. [2]

Jumping back from a Hyperlink, certainly inside the document, is impossible, i.e. having jumped through a Hyperlink, no 'back navigation' button is made available, like the one found on Web-Browsers: [3]

See also

References

  1. ^ New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look
  2. ^ "FOSS word processors compared: OOo Writer, AbiWord, and KWord". Linux.com. 2005-08-23. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  3. ^ "Simple question on Back with Hyper Link".
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