The Open Source Office suite, OpenOffice 4.0, the main competitor to Microsoft Office for office applications was presented a few weeks ago, on this blog, because it had reached version 4.0 with many improvements and news .
The result of the new release was surprising and unexpected because in two weeks, since the launch day for free and free download, more than 3 million users have downloaded it .
OpenOffice 3.0 has proven to have excellent performance and features that become complex on Microsoft Office.
The popularity of the OpenOffice suite has thus increased and the challenge with Microsoft has become more competitive also because OpenOffice does not pay.
In addition, another reason why this open source application is being successful is the possibility of downloading custom plug-ins or extensions, capable of integrating and making the OpenOffice suite more functional.
The main plugins (program extensions) and templates (models) that make Openoffice very attractive even for Microsoft Office supporters and the most traditionalists are:
PDF Import which allows users to edit existing PDF files, for example, by adding comments, changing dates, numbers and to edit or change small portions of texts.
Writer's Tool is a set of services for those who write many documents, in fact with this extension, users can backup documents in various formats, search for selected words on search engines and other sources on the internet such as online dictionaries, service translation of words and phrases, word count and various statistics on the document.
Useful for preparing a budget, making business cards or writing a project plan is the Italian Professional Template Pack which provides a wide variety of document templates to help create high quality professional documents.
There are more than 120 templates including budgets and project plans, formal letters and personal letters, event posters, business cards, invoices, print formats, presentation formats and so on.
In addition, you can also create your personal presentation from scratch with the templates available.
Language Tool is used to obtain support for language, syntax and grammar.
For Excel there is the Data Form plugin that automatically generates a form chosen from several options, in which you just have to enter the data to have the desired calculations.
Oracle Presenter Console is a useful tool especially for those who regularly make presentations that offers more flexibility and control over the slides.
For example, the presenter can check what the next slide is and a timer, while the audience only sees the current slide.
The Tamplates and document templates of OpenOffice 3, in Italian, are on the official website and are divided into school, commercial and personal or household items.
If that weren't enough, we can also see another page about modern impress templates.
To install the extensions on the OpenOffice suite, after downloading the extensions, go to Tools> Extension Manager, and simply click "Add" to install the plugin.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 can be downloaded for free both for Windows, for Linux and for Mac OS X, in Italian, on this page: Download Openoffice
For other resources, the links to:
Models in Italian
OpenOffice.org in other languages
Extensions for OOo
Italian dictionary.
The result of the new release was surprising and unexpected because in two weeks, since the launch day for free and free download, more than 3 million users have downloaded it .
OpenOffice 3.0 has proven to have excellent performance and features that become complex on Microsoft Office.
The popularity of the OpenOffice suite has thus increased and the challenge with Microsoft has become more competitive also because OpenOffice does not pay.
In addition, another reason why this open source application is being successful is the possibility of downloading custom plug-ins or extensions, capable of integrating and making the OpenOffice suite more functional.
The main plugins (program extensions) and templates (models) that make Openoffice very attractive even for Microsoft Office supporters and the most traditionalists are:
PDF Import which allows users to edit existing PDF files, for example, by adding comments, changing dates, numbers and to edit or change small portions of texts.
Writer's Tool is a set of services for those who write many documents, in fact with this extension, users can backup documents in various formats, search for selected words on search engines and other sources on the internet such as online dictionaries, service translation of words and phrases, word count and various statistics on the document.
Useful for preparing a budget, making business cards or writing a project plan is the Italian Professional Template Pack which provides a wide variety of document templates to help create high quality professional documents.
There are more than 120 templates including budgets and project plans, formal letters and personal letters, event posters, business cards, invoices, print formats, presentation formats and so on.
In addition, you can also create your personal presentation from scratch with the templates available.
Language Tool is used to obtain support for language, syntax and grammar.
For Excel there is the Data Form plugin that automatically generates a form chosen from several options, in which you just have to enter the data to have the desired calculations.
Oracle Presenter Console is a useful tool especially for those who regularly make presentations that offers more flexibility and control over the slides.
For example, the presenter can check what the next slide is and a timer, while the audience only sees the current slide.
The Tamplates and document templates of OpenOffice 3, in Italian, are on the official website and are divided into school, commercial and personal or household items.
If that weren't enough, we can also see another page about modern impress templates.
To install the extensions on the OpenOffice suite, after downloading the extensions, go to Tools> Extension Manager, and simply click "Add" to install the plugin.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 can be downloaded for free both for Windows, for Linux and for Mac OS X, in Italian, on this page: Download Openoffice
For other resources, the links to:
Models in Italian
OpenOffice.org in other languages
Extensions for OOo
Italian dictionary.
