You can create and edit text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and databases Linux XP Desktop 2008 with OpenOffice.org suite. OpenOffice.org is similar to Microsoft Office, has very close interface and functionality, supports its file formats. Goes with several applications, including formula editor and vector editor.
Text Processor
OpenOffice.org Writer supports editing text documents, that may contain graphical objects, tables and diagrams. Your documents can be saved in any file format you like (Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), HTML,PDF and many others).
OpenOffice.org Writer provides numerous helpful features (spellchecking, thesaurus, text autocompletion, templates for any types of documents).
Your work with documents can be easily automated with the help of style and other automatic functions, including prediction of your input. These functions speed up text input and entire work.
Advanced context help system simplifies your work.
Spreadsheets
OpenOffice.org Calc is a spreadsheet application, that allows you to make computations, analyze and manage data. Moreover you can work with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
There are multiple tools for data manipulation. Math, logic, statistics, financial tools that can help you in complex computations.
OpenOffice.org Calc also supports styles, automatic functions, different objects insertions, access to different data sources.
Documents can be saved in different formats, including Microsoft Excel (.xls), PDF, dBASE, dif, HTML and many others.
Presenter
OpenOffice.org Impress lets you create professional presentations (slide-shows). You can include diagrams, pictures, photos, music, videos and any other objects you like. Impress also supports Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
To make your presentations look great and impressive you can use animations, multimedia and transformations.
OpenOffice.org Impress comes with templates that will help you to make professional presentations.
Slides can be published as usual onscreen presentations, printed materials or HTML-presentation.
You can also choose manual or automatic slide changing.
Personal Database
Working with OpenOffice.org Base application you can use data from lots of other databases.
OpenOffice.org Base supports file databases like dBase. Moreover you can use OpenOffice.org Base to connect to external relational databases like MySQL or Oracle.
With the built-in form editor you can easily create CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) database applications.
Report editor lets you generate reports from your databases.
Diagram editor
The Dia drawing program is designed to be like the Windows(TM) Visio program. Dia can be used to draw different types of diagrams, and includes support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams), entity relationship modeling, and network diagrams.
Dia can load and save diagrams to a custom file format, can load and save in .xml format, and can export to PostScript(TM).
Progect Managment
Linux XP Desktop includes Planner — simple and effective application for project management.
Planner lets you to manage various project parameters, including planing with Gantt-diagram.
