Nope - Open Office base is a database program, MS Excel is a spreadsheet.
It's a 'slide-show' program - similar to Microsoft's Power-Point program.
It performs similar functions to those in Microsoft's Paint program.
There are several freeware alternatives; one that is fairly popular is OpenOffice, which includes a word processing program similar to Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet program similar to Excel, and some other programs.
Buy a legal copy of it. or of course get caught and go to jail. or download openoffice, a program similar to Microsoft office.
Do you mean "similar" or "the same"? The same application - Microsoft Word - is available for the Apple Macintosh. StarOffice is an example of a similar application.
AbiWord is a word processor, which means that the program is used to process text in a similar manner to programs like Microsoft Word or components of the OpenOffice suite.
Yes - they look very similar, and perform in much the same way.
If OpenOffice /LireOffice isnt satisfying, try Scribus or LyX (I have no experience with those latter two but they are open source desktop publishing applications that run on Linux).
They both perform very similar functions. The two major differences are :-MS Office costs money - you have to pay for each copy. OpenOffice is free to download.MS Office is copyright, meaning only authorised people working for Microsoft can make changes to the program. OpenOffice is 'open source' which means anyone can manipulate and make changes to the actual source code.
"word processing" is NOT a program written by someone but a term used for any program used for typing purposes. for obious reasons they tend to have similar names like "office word" made by microsoft, "word perfect" made by Corel, " Writer" made by " Sun Microsystems" as part of their openoffice project.
It depends on the context. In a building - an open office is simply lots of desks in a single (often very large) room - like a call centre. OpenOffice software - is a suite of programs similar to Microsoft Office - the difference is - you need to pay for Microsoft's version - whereas OpenOffice is free.
Yes there is; Microsoft Word.