User Guide - Office Tools

Office Tools

There are two primary office suite recommendations for Fedora users: the OpenOffice.org suite for GNOME desktop users and KOffice suite for the KDE desktop. Each suite of office tools includes presentation, spreadsheet, and word processing applications. Additional office applications are also available depending on the office suite selected.

Remember both office suites will run on any Fedora desktop environment. The recommendation is only the office suite best optimized for a specific desktop environment, such as GNOME or KDE. Once installed, all office tools are available from the Applications > Office menu or as icons located in the menu bar or on the desktop.

A few other programs of interest are Abiword for word processing, gLabels is a program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment, and Gnumeric a GNOME spreadsheet.

• To install these packages, please read the chapter on managing software. You can install them by either using the PackageKit application or on the command line by using Yum.

OpenOffice.org Applications

OpenOffice.org creates documents in open standards formats, such as OpenDocument (.ODF), Rich Text Format (.RTF), and HTML. It can also read, edit, and write documents in Microsoft Office formats, such as Word (.DOC), Excel (.XLS), and PowerPoint (.PPT), with a high degree of compatibility. Files can be exported in PDF format without the need of additional software. The most used Openoffice.org programs are:

File:Docs Drafts DesktopUserGuide Office openofficeorg-impress.png OpenOffice.org Impress Creates and performs presentations.

• Start Impress by clicking on Applications > Office > OpenOffice.org Impress.
• The first window asks you to choose Empty presentation, From template, or Open existing presentation.

• Select Empty presentation to build your slide(s) from scratch, or
• The From Template button for further configuration:

• Presentations allow you to choose:

• Default
• Introducing a New Product
• Recommendation of a Strategy

• Presentation Backgrounds loads the window with several background choices.

• Open existing presentation opens a presentation file.

• Choose the [Next] key to Select a slide design and Select an output medium.
• Another click on [Next] opens the Presentation Wizard to set up your presentation. You can select the Effect and Speed of slide transition, and either Default or Automatic for the Type of Presentation you want.
• The[Create] button opens your presentation.
• The application opens with the work area, top menu and a drawing menu on the bottom. When you roll your mouse over the icons a description of its function pops up.

Click this link for detailed tutorials about using OpenOffice.org Impress.

File:Docs Drafts DesktopUserGuide Office openofficeorg-calc.png OpenOffice.org Calc is a full featured spreadsheet program.

File:Docs Drafts DesktopUserGuide Office openofficeorg-writer.png OpenOffice.org Writer is a word processing program.

For the most up-to-date information on all of OpenOffice.org's office program offerings, visit the official site OpenOffice.org.

KOffice

The KOffice suite is optimized for the KDE desktop environment. The KOffice applications also create documents and files in open standards formats including OpenDocument (.ODF), Rich Text Format (.RTF), and HTML. Officially, the KOffice FAQ recommends using .RTF or .PDF formats for compatibility with Microsoft Word. KOffice does support Microsoft file formats, but there are issues with compatibility.

For the most up-to-date information on all of KOffice's program offerings, visit the official KOffice site. This site also includes detailed documentation and help for each individual KOffice program.

File:Docs Drafts DesktopUserGuide Office kpresenter.png	KPresenter is the KOffice application for creating and performing presentations.
File:Docs Drafts DesktopUserGuide Office kspread.png	KSpread is the KOffice spreadsheet program.
File:Docs Drafts DesktopUserGuide Office kword.png	KWord is the KOffice word processing program.

For Further Information

For more information on using OpenOffice.org, refer to the following documentation and support pages:

• http://documentation.openoffice.org/
• http://support.openoffice.org/index.html
• http://user-faq.openoffice.org/

For more information on using KOffice, refer to the following documentation and support pages:

• http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/kde-office-components.html
• http://www.koffice.org/

For templates that can be used in OpenOffice.org refer to the following websites:

• http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/index.html
• http://www.smalldataproblem.org/ooextras/
• http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/SunTemplatepack_1

For templates that can be used in KOffice refer to the following websites:

• http://www.koffice.org/kword/templates.php
• http://kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=610

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