Open Office

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Open Office

Open Office.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. Open Office.org is easy to learn, and if you're already using another office software package, you'll take to Open Office.org straight away.
Open Office includes various Microsoft Office tools, a word processor, spreadsheet and tool to create presentations compatible with Word, Excel and Power Point respectively. It also includes access to various graphic editor tools with support for device sessions and the creation of multimedia presentations. The context-sensitive help works across all applications, unobtrusively providing the precise help you need. You can even open any type of document from any application. Open Office supports the following file formats: ODT, ODS, ODG, ODP, ODC, ODF, ODI, ODB, ODM, DOC, XLS, PPT, PNG, JPG, TXT, RTF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, OTT, OTS, OTP, OTG. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.

Now many say oh Open Office its a bit slow ... installed as default yes it is but it can be speeded up >

Open Writer and Click Tools Tab and at the bottom of the small window that opens Click Options

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In the next window that opens Click Memory then on the left you will see you can allocate Memory to open the application (default is 20) - Note you need to have the Memory / RAM to allocate

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The best thing about Open Office is that its free

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