OpenOffice was originally a commercial-grade Office software suite by Sun Microsystems called StarOffice. After Sun Microsystems open-sourced the code, it was officially named the OpenOffice development project and has since been maintained by many enthusiasts of free software. This provides everyone with an alternative to MS OFFICE, offering a free Office suite. OpenOffice is an integrated software suite that includes numerous tools and features that are in no way inferior to Microsoft's MS Office. It offers word processing similar to Word, simple graphic creation, powerful charting capabilities, web page editing, and even the ability to handle mathematical symbols that are difficult to manage in MS Office. It supports various formats such as XML, Microsoft's doc, Excel, ppt files, etc.
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