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The linguistic components themselves are part of the lingucomponent project. Its heart is the Writer application but it also comprises the Apache OpenOffice Formula Editor Math, the integration of the linguistic components (spellchecker, hyphenator, thesaurus) and some documentfilters for formats of other wordprocessors. If you need to collaborate with others on those files, though, there are other office alternatives that make it much easier.This is the home of the Apache OpenOffice Word Processing Project. If you just need to work with Microsoft Office formats, and you don’t mind what some would consider a dated interface, Open Office has all the comprehensive formatting and functionality you need.

Occasionally, it will hiccup as when it removed all the embedded images from a Word doc I had open.

It does so flawlessly most of the time, even with complexly formatted documents like resumes and multi-column newsletters. Open Office has excellent compatibility with Office formats and can export to PDF from all three apps.īy default, Open Office uses the Open Document standard for native files, but you can change it to save to Microsoft formats, and it can read and write existing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
