Feel the Open Alternative :: Free Your Office!

It’s Popular

OpenOffice.org is the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. It has been downloaded more than 130 million times to date, and reaches a broad audience across applications, languages, and cultures.

It’s Complete

OpenOffice.org offers complete office productivity through six integrated applications: Writer for text documents, Calc for spreadsheets, Impress for presentations, Draw for line drawings, Base for databases, Math for formula creation. It supports scripting through macros and offers an integrated development environment for OpenOffice.org Basic.

It’s Free

There are no license costs, now or in the future. It is the perfect alternative to proprietary, commercial products and it works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.

It’s Compatible

Share your documents with people from all over the world. OpenOffice.org reads and writes OpenDocument (ODF) and Microsoft Office documents, and can export your documents to the popular PDF format. Extend OpenOffice.org to even read PDF files through the PDF Import extension.

Add Complex Equations to Your Text

OpenOffice.org Math provides everything you need to create professional looking equations, regardless of complexity.

Include Diagrams and Charts

A selection of different chart types and layouts are available to present your data professionally. You can include diagrams that automatically update when the source data changes.

Long Documents Made Easy

Essays or academic thes es documents can get long, with dozens of tables, diagrams and images. The Navigator helps you to keep track and move even through very large documents. The Master Document functionality allows you to split up document chapters into files and maintain them separately.

PDF at Your Finger Tips

The PDF format is a common standard for sharing documents. You can create PDF documents with OpenOffice.org in a single mouse click. No extra software is required.

Extensible Functionality

Do you want extra functionality? No problem!
Check out the OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository and find dozens of extensions that you can use to expand what OpenOffice.org can do for you.

Help and support

Online Help, Wikis, and User Guides are available to guide you through the applications. A support forum and various mailing lists on the OpenOffice.org website will connect you with the OpenOffice.org community, where thousands of users are willing to help you.