The first knowledge OpenOffice of Linux office

The famous OpenOffice (OO) project is the 1999 Sun Company acquired the StarOffice after the open source project. OO-based products are also emerging, typically such as the Sun's StarOffice (Asian version called Starsuite), the Chinese 2000 RedOffice, the winning bid for the soft Pu-wah office and the Just-released Hurricane Hill office. Therefore, learn OpenOffice, basically learned several kinds of Linux under the Office software.

function Module of OpenOffice

OO is composed mainly of four modules, namely word processing module writer, spreadsheet Module calc, slide module impress and drawing module draw, for these you can see the introduction of the Linux January general topic.

The biggest difference with Microsoft Office is that Oo's design philosophy tends to be more centralized, although OO documents, which appear to be saved as files with different extensions, are actually saved in XML format and then compressed using a zip compression algorithm. So as soon as you start Oo, create/Open different documents do not have to start different programs like Microsoft Office, but only to change to the appropriate interface, the following author on the use of the most frequently used in OO module writer use.

Small knowledge: OpenOffice document extension know how much

The writer document has an extension of sxw

The Calc document has an extension of SXC

The impress document has an extension of sxi

The draw document has an extension of sxd

Tip: oo derivatives such as STARSUITE6/7, RedOffice, Pu-wah office, instant office and Jinshan Hurricane Office are mainly composed of these four modules, the use of similar, but only different characteristics, we can analogy, extrapolate to learn.

Ii. Knowledge of writer

Writer interface is very representative, proficient in its interface for other modules of learning will have a great help! The following author on the Chinese localization of the RedOffice as an example to introduce the use of writer. The writer main interface is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

The top of the interface is basically the same as word, the difference is that there is one more main toolbar on the left, which, in turn, inserts, inserts fields, drawings, forms, artwork, positioning cursors, turns on/off the spelling checker, finds, data sources, nonprinting characters, turns off graphic object display, and Web layout. where inserts, drawings, and forms can be dragged to a floating toolbar.

Tip: In the process of familiar with the interface, it is best to be familiar with the common features of Word!