The StarOffice
suite of Office
applications runs on multiple operating systems, including Linux, Solaris,
and Windows. StarOffice
contains the following
applications:
Word Processing
Spreadsheet
Presentation
Graphics
Database Capabilities
StarOffice
includes the following features
and benefits:
Feature |
Benefit |
---|---|
Supports XML file formats |
You can create, manage, and access complex documents and web pages. |
Intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) |
Familiar interface concepts require minimal retraining. |
Built on open standards and OpenOffice.org open source code |
You are not locked into proprietary formats. |
You can start StarOffice
in the following
ways:
Double-click the StarOffice
icon
on the desktop background.
Click Launch, then choose StarOffice 7.
Click Launch, then choose Launch -> Applications -> Office.
StarOffice
contains sample documents and
templates to help you create documents. To access these templates and documents,
choose File -> New -> Templates and Documents.
Choose File -> AutoPilot to create user-defined templates, for example, for faxes, presentations or web pages that you can use as a basis for further documents.
You can access Help for StarOffice
from within
each of the following StarOffice
applications:
Category |
Application |
Description |
---|---|---|
Office |
|
Enables you to create presentations. |
|
Enables you to create spreadsheets. |
|
|
Enables you to create text documents. |
To open a file previously created by StarOffice, click Launch, then choose StarOffice 7. From the Templates and Documents — My Documents dialog, highlight the folder where the file is located. For example, if your file is located in My Documents folder, click on the My Documents icon and a list of your folders and files is displayed in the Title pane. Locate the file that you want and double-click on the file.