StarOffice 8 supports ODF too Microsoft Office 2003 does not. OpenOffice 2 supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an open-source file format with the ambitious goal of replacing Microsoft Office's formats as the workplace standard. OpenOffice 2 has top-notch productivity tools but less clip art than its sibling, StarOffice 8. The Calc spreadsheet in version 2 can handle spreadsheets as large as 65,536 rows (same as Excel), which is great for importing huge Excel files. Like StarOffice, OpenOffice lets you save documents as PDF files-a handy feature for sending read-only files via e-mail, and one not found in Microsoft Office 2003. And only StarOffice provides a variety of tools for administration and Microsoft Office migration. StarOffice also comes with more than 1,800 clip-art graphics, while OpenOffice provides less than half that number (though you can download more at the Open Clip Art Library). Take the Impress presentations program, for instance: StarOffice provides more than 70 visual backgrounds in its Presentation Wizard, while OpenOffice has only three. The core applications in each suite (Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, and Writer) have matching interfaces, but you'll find differences as you dig deeper. StarOffice 8 has more extras, including additional presentation backgrounds and clip art, as well as better administration and Microsoft Office-migration tools.Īt first glance, OpenOffice 2 and StarOffice 8 are identical. In 2000, Sun made the StarOffice source code publicly available and invited the open-source community to join Sun's developers in shaping future upgrades. users & developers supplied a simple answer: "download only from 2 is the open-source version of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 8 desktop suite, which costs between $70 and $100. Several people reported that their OpenOffice downloads had malware. Presentations and videos from FOSDEM 2014 are now available. " The free office suite with enough to get the job done" is the summary in Eddie Cho's review of Apache OpenOffice on. Hey, we have a refurbished Hebrew site! Any Arabic translators out there, who'd like to use the rtl.css, for an Arabic translation of the site, too? OpenOffice in the News This would allow continuity, across updates, for users. Voting hasn't occured yet, but. Andrea Pescetti proposed to persist translations of OpenOffice suite & help(?), even if not %100 complete, at least in minor releases.
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