8.2.1 Office Productivity

Open Office, available at http://www.openoffice.org, is no doubt the most end-user oriented open source program. The current version (as of 2006/04/16) has the following main components:

• Writer: word processor.
• Calc: spreadsheet.
• Impress: presentation.
• Base: database frontend.

Open Office, in many ways, is comparable to Microsoft Office. This is especially the case for the average end users who do not need to use macros or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Many documents saved in Microsoft Office formats can be opened in Open Office.