F8 User Guide - Office Tools

Office productivity tools are available in the base DVD Fedora installation but not in the live-CD version. This group of office tools include presentation, spreadsheet, and word processing applications. These tools are available through Applications > Office or as icons on the menu bar.

If the office productivity tools are not installed, install them using Pirut. Using Pirut is covered in the chapter Managing Software with Pirut. To install the office productivity tools, go to Applications in the left menu of Pirut and in the right menu select the Office/Productivity group, clicking the Optional packages. Install the Open Office.org' suite of tools in GNOME go to Applications > Office and select the application you would like to use. The icons below identify the programs; similar information is available from the tool tip that pops up when the mouse arrow hovers over the icon in the Applications > Office menu. In KDE the location is slightly different, with Open Office.org Impress application, for creating and performing presentations.
 * [[Image:Docs_Drafts_DesktopUserGuide_Office_gnome-planner.png]]||Project Management is the Planner application, a project planning tool.
 * [[Image:Docs_Drafts_DesktopUserGuide_Office_openofficeorg-calc.png]]||Spreadsheet is the Open Office.org Writer application, a word processing program.
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 * [[Image:Docs_Drafts_DesktopUserGuide_Office_openofficeorg-calc.png]]||Spreadsheet is the Open Office.org Writer application, a word processing program.
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OpenOffice.org Applications
'Open Document (ODF), Rich Text Format (RTF''), and HTML. It can also read, edit, and write documents in Microsoft Office formats, such as Word, Excel, and Power Office.org is available for many computer platforms | The Open Office.org, refer to the following documentation and support pages:


 * http://documentation.openoffice.org/
 * http://support.openoffice.org/index.html
 * http://user-faq.openoffice.org/

For more information on using KOffice, refer to the following documentation and support pages:


 * http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/kde-office-components.html
 * http://www.koffice.org/

For templates that can be used in Open Office.org refer to the following websites:


 * http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/index.html
 * http://www.smalldataproblem.org/ooextras/
 * http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/SunTemplatepack_1

For templates that can be used in KOffice refer to the following websites:


 * http://www.koffice.org/kword/templates.php
 * http://kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=610

For more information on using Planner, refer to the following official project documentation and support site:


 * http://live.gnome.org/Planner

For more information on using Evolution, refer to the following official project documentation and support site:
 * http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/