Open Office : Office Suite

Need to create word documents and power point slides but do not want to pay for Microsoft Office?

Open Office is your answer!

Source: OpenOffice.org

Open office is one of the open source office suite, that allows you to write word documents, design power point slides, create spreadsheet, create database and draw. They also allow you to save the documents so that they are compatible and can be open with Microsoft documents. However sometimes the alignment of the placement in your original document may be a little different after the conversion. But best of all its free.

Open office is available for different OS, such as Windows, Mac and Linux. Most linux nowadays already comes with pre-installed  open office.

Open Office can be downloaded at http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

Some Screen Shots from Open Office.org

Writer: Word Processing

Calc: Spread Sheet

Impress: Presentation Slides

 

 

 

 

 

 

Draw: For Drawing Images

Base: Creating Database

So enjoy and have fun with Open Office!