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How To Use OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.org is a word processing suite much like StarOffice. Like StarOffice, OpenOffice.org is a suite of office productivity tools including word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools. It was installed mostly to replace StarOffice, and can be used to view Microsoft formatted documents received through the mail.
To use OpenOffice.org, first you must install the workstation version
locally in you home directory. Log into a workstation using your
account and run Install the workstation version in your home directory. This will take about 1.9 MB.
This puts files related to OpenOffice.org in the directory
~/OpenOffice.org1.1.1, including ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/soffice, which is
the command to use to start up OpenOffice.org. To run the program, change
to the ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.1 directory and run
./soffice, or add the the directory to your path by adding the line
set path=(~/OpenOffice.org1.1.1 $path)
To use OpenOffice.org to view Microsoft formatted attachments in your mail
program, add this line to your .mailcap file: Copyright (c) HMC Computer Science Department.
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