Quick Start Guide

4 LibreOce Quick Start
The LibreOce Novell Edition contains improved functionality and additional features
not available with the standard version.
4.1 Compatibility
LibreOce can work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases
in many other formats, including Microsoft Oce™. They can be seamlessly opened
like other les and saved back to the original format. Though some work has already
been invested in interoperability, occasionally there are still formatting issues. If you
have problems with your documents, consider opening them in the original application
and resaving them in an open format such as RTF for text documents. In case of
migration problems with spreadsheets however, it is advisable to resave them as
Excel les and use this as intermediate format (with CSV format you would lose all
cell formatting and CSV sometimes leads to incorrect cell type detection for spread-
sheets).
4.2 LibreOce Modules
LibreOce consists of several application modules (subprograms), which are designed
to interact with each other. All modules feature the same graphical user interface
and similar functionality.
Table 4.1: The LibreOce Modules
UsageModule
Text document moduleWriter
Spreadsheet moduleCalc
Presentation moduleImpress
Database moduleBase
Vector graphics moduleDraw
Mathematical equation moduleMath
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