The Final Guide

LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs. LibreOffice consists of Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Whoever can’t afford for Microsoft Office, can get their works done using LibreOffice as its free and Open Source. The greatest advantage of LibreOffice tells in its extensibility to create PDF files which means you can distribute your documents through PDF which can be opened by any computing device or operating system.

Writer

Writer is the word processor inside LibreOffice. You can use Writer for all document formatting tasks from a quick letter to an entire book with tables of contents, embedded illustrations, bibliographies and diagrams. There are other features also like auto-completion, auto-formatting and automatic spell checker which work while you type. Writer is powerful tool which can finish all your desktop publishing tasks like creating multi-column newsletters and brochures.

Calc

Using Calc, you can analyze your data with Calc and later present your final output. Calc comes with charts and analysis tools. You can make your own formulas and a complete help system is integrated into Calc. You can add data from external databases such as SQL or Oracle, then sort and filter them to produce statistical analyses. You can use the graphing functions to display large number of 2D and 3D graphics from 13 categories including line, area, bar, pie, X-Y, and net with the dozens of variations available.

Impress

Impress is the fastest and easiest way to create effective multimedia presentations. Stunning animation and sensational special effects help you convince your audience. Create presentations that look even more professional than the standard presentations you commonly see at work. Get your collegues’ and bosses’ attention by creating something a little bit different.

Draw

Draw lets you build diagrams and sketches from scratch. A picture is worth a thousand words, so why not try something simple with box and line diagrams? Or else go further and easily build dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects. It’s as simple or as powerful as you want it to be.

Base

Base is the database front-end of the LibreOffice suite. With Base, you can seamlessly integrate your existing database structures into the other components of LibreOffice, or create an interface to use and administer your data as a stand-alone application. You can use imported and linked tables and queries from MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft Access and many other data sources, or design your own with Base, to build powerful front-ends with sophisticated forms, reports and views. Support is built-in or easily addable for a very wide range of database products, notably the standardly-provided HSQL, MySQL, Adabas D, Microsoft Access and PostgreSQL.

Math

Math is a simple equation editor that lets you lay-out and display your mathematical, chemical, electrical or scientific equations quickly in standard written notation. Even the most-complex calculations can be understandable when displayed correctly. E=mc2.

LibreOffice is available for Windows, Linux, Macintosh. You can download from LibreOffice.org.

You can check for complete System Requirements at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/

For more information, visit: http://www.libreoffice.org/