Open Office: A decent alternative for MS Office

A student or a professional, or even a ordinary computer user, everyone have Microsoft’s MS Office installed in their PC. The Office Package of MS Office is used for Word Processing, Creating and editing Spreadsheets, and for Presentation purpose. In short, the Office Package is the soul of each computer for all set of generation.

But if you want an alternative for the MS Office for your day-to-day grindings like- create document, spreadsheets, or project development, then you have an option of Open Office.

Open Office is an open source productivity suite, through which we can perform work related to graphics, database, word processing, Spreadsheets etc. Open Office software is available in various language, and it can work on every format of Operating System with very little hardware requirements. The Office package the saves data in an international open format and can open files developed in other Office packages. The main thing about this Office Package is that it is available for free. It can be easily downloaded by visiting the link office.org. 

There are many versions of Open Office available to use. It is predicted that the Open Office 3.4.0 version has been downloaded for more than 12 million times form internet. It supports all main operating system. Its file format is .odf (open document format). Simply saying, if you have any document created in MS office, it can be opened in the Open Office.

System Requirements for Open Office:

• Different versions of windows such as XP, Vista, Windows 7 etc.
• 256MB RAM
• Atleast 650MB disc space for installation.
• It can be installed in system with operating systems like LINUX and MAC.
• JAVA Runtime Environment.

Some Modules in Open Office:

• Writer   -   work related to Word Processing
• Calc      -   related to spreadsheet
• Impress -   to make project
• Draw    -   for graphics editing
• Math    -   for mathematical formula