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Article: Free productivity suite updates: OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta.(FIRST LOOKS: NEW PRODUCTS, HANDS-ON TESTS)(Product/Service Evaluation)
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- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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If you're thrifty and you use an office suite, it's hard not to like OpenOffice. org, the open-source set of office productivity tools. Version 1.0 does most things Microsoft Office can do (including smoothly trade files with users of Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Plus, it's free. So what's to improve in version 2.0? OpenOffice.org 2.0 adds a database creation application similar to Microsoft Access.
Beyond that, many of the small improvements are nice to have, but probably won't radically change how you work.
In addition to Base, the database application, OpenOffice.org 2.0 includes a word processor, a spreadsheet application, a presentation program, an ...