Oracle Open Office Writer

Oracle Open Office Writer
Oracle Open Office Writer
StarOffice Writer.png
StarOffice Writer 8 running on Solaris
Developer(s) Sun Microsystems, community
Stable release 9 Update 4 / November 17, 2008; 2 years ago (2008-11-17)
Operating system Windows, Linux, Solaris[1]
Type Word processor
License Proprietary
Website openoffice.org

Oracle Open Office Writer is the word processor component of the Oracle Open Office software package. It was formerly known as StarOffice Writer, and before that, StarWriter. Writer is based on OpenOffice.org Writer and is similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect.

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History

StarWriter was owned by StarDivision, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. The word processor was the first component of the StarOffice suite, and was renamed StarOffice Writer. With Oracle's acquisition of Sun in 2010, the word processor was renamed again to Oracle Open Office Writer.

Features

Writer is capable of opening and saving documents in a variety of formats, including the OASIS Open Document Format (its default format since version 8.0), Microsoft Word's DOC, RTF and XHTML.

Writer provides a number of features not present in its main competitor, Word, including the ability to export to the PDF format natively. It also includes a word completion mechanism for predictive writing that is not available in Microsoft Word as of June, 2008.

Unlike OpenOffice.org Writer, Oracle Open Office Writer includes a converter for VBA macros, and supports more file formats.

Features include:

  • AutoCorrect
  • AutoComplete
  • Styles and Formatting
  • Text Frames and Linking
  • Tables of Contents
  • Indexing
  • Bibliographical References
  • Illustrations
  • Tables

Criticism

Writer lacks a normal view editing mode, in which borders and spaces between pages are hidden in order to make extended editing more efficient.[2] This feature is available in Microsoft Word.

A grammar checker requires the installation of an extension.

See also

References

  1. ^ Sun Microsystems, Inc.. "StarOffice 8 - System Requirements". http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/specs.jsp. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  2. ^ "Issue 4914 - "normal" view option needed". OpenOffice.org. 2002-05-15. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4914. Retrieved 2007-07-16. 

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