OpenOffice Writer

OpenOffice Writer is the word processor part of the OpenOffice.org software package. Writer is a word processor that is like Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect.

Just like all of the OpenOffice suite, Writer can be used on many Operating Systems, including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Released under the terms of the Apache License, Writer is free software.http://why.openoffice.org/why_foss.html Why use Openoffice.org if anybody wants to collect a word processor free of cost he has software for him called open office.org writer.

 Abilities 
Writer can open and save documents in a lot of formats, including the OASIS Open Document Format 1.1, Microsoft Word's DOC, RTF and XHTML.http://why.openoffice.org/why_great.html Why use openoffice:Writer

Writer has a number of abilities that are not in Word, including the ability to export to the PDF format natively.

Abilities include:
 Auto Correct
 Auto Complete
 Styles and Formatting
 Text Frames and Linking
 Tables of Contents
 Indexing
 Bibliographical References
 Illustrations
 Tables

 Criticism 
Though OpenOffice.org Writer has a spell checker, it does not have an included grammar checker though this is available as an extension. Writer's mail merge functions, rewritten in 2.0, is still less flexible than in other word processors.

 References 

 Other websites 
 Writer home page
 OpenOffice.org Processing Project
 Word Processor Writer FAQ

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