Open Office software is a free alternative to Microsoft Office. You can open and save documents in many versions of Microsoft Office.Open Office is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X, and Sun Solaris.Open Office uses the open document format which is becoming the industry standard.Governments, schools, and many companies are using the open document format.
Open Office Writer is a free substitute for Microsoft Word and WordPerfect.It's compatible with Microsoft Word's DOC, DOCX, XHTML, and RTF formats.You can also export documents to PDF natively.It includes features such as: Word Completion, Tables of Contents, AutoCorrect, AutoComplete, Indexing, Styles and Formatting, Bibliographical References, Text Frames and Linking, Illustrations, and Tables.
Open Office Calc is a free sreadsheet alternative to Microsoft Excel.It can open and save many file formats of Microsoft Excel.It has many features not available in Excel, including creating graphs from spreadsheet data.Calc offers a feature called "DataPilot" similar to Microsoft Excel's "PivotTables".Calc also has a more sophisticated function wizard than Microsoft Excel allowing users to navigate through nested formulas.
Object-oriented programming concepts are presented by using real world examples.Topics covered include: classes, objects, methods, message passing, inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, and polymorphism.
