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StarOffice 5.2 software
boosts your effectiveness with these rich productivity tools:
- StarOffice Desktop
is the control center of the program. It enables you to manage
files and folders, open documents and projects, and access e-mail,
newsgroups, and system resources. In addition, you can tap into
various configuration options to create a personalized work environment.
- StarOffice Writer
is a universal word processing application for creating business
letters and proposals, complex documents, newsletters and brochures,
as well as HTML documents. Powerful AutoPilots, intelligent AutoFunctions,
and ready-made templates and styles enable you to concentrate
on the task at hand by automatically correcting typing errors,
indicating spelling mistakes, and streamlining routine formatting
tasks.
- StarOffice Calc
is a sophisticated application for performing advanced spreadsheet
functions, such as analyzing figures, creating lists, and viewing
data. StarOffice Calc also includes useful macros, an easy-to-use
scenario manager that performs "what if" analyses, and AutoFunctions
that help speed entry of routine data and series.
- StarOffice Impress
is a versatile graphics program for creating eye-catching, interactive,
portable presentations and multilayered graphics. It includes
vector graphic and special effects tools for organizing, illustrating,
and delivering your message, as well as an AutoPilot for creating
a Webcast or Web-based slide show, complete with index.
- StarOffice Draw
has some of the best drawing tools available in an office suite,
including 3-D modeling tools (that enable you to fuse basic shapes
together to create complex ones), Bézier curves, and a range of
tools that draw connecting lines between objects and shapes, adjusting
automatically as you move the shapes. You can also convert bitmaps
into vector graphics (for 3-D illustrations) or export vector
graphics as bitmap images (for online display or creating animated
GIFs).
- StarOffice Image
is a graphics utility for creating, transforming, refining, and
editing bitmap images in numerous formats (including BMP, JPEG,
GIF, TIF, EPS, and PNG).
- StarOffice Schedule
is a seamlessly integrated, robust scheduling and task management
tool for single-user and workgroup environments that helps keep
track of your appointments, tasks, contacts, projects, and available
time. It features a reminder system that supports pop-up dialog
alerts (with or without sound) and sends e-mail reminders at a
prescribed time (up to two weeks before an event). StarOffice
Schedule also supports Palm OS-based PDA's.
- StarOffice Mail
and StarOffice Discussion are the suite's electronic mail
application and Internet news reader. Both components foster outstanding
communication and are fully integrated into the StarOffice Desktop.
Users enjoy unmatched ease of e-mail use and flexibility when
attaching files to e-mails, addressing, storing, filtering, and
exporting e-mail and news postings.
- StarOffice Base
is a powerful data management tool that enables you to generate
reports, run queries, and move data between documents with drag-and-drop
ease.
Furthermore, StarOffice
provides the following tools that extend and enhance your productivity
regardless of whether you are working on a text document, spreadsheet,
or presentation:
- StarOffice Chart
helps you turn complex data into meaningful information by converting
data into impressive 3-D charts or simple pie, bar, and line diagrams.
- StarOffice Math
is a user-friendly
formula editor that enables WYSIWYG editing of complex formulas
and comes with numerous symbol sets and operators.
- StarOffice Fontwork
and Form are tools that enable you to create 2-D and 3-D
text effects and interactive forms.
- StarOffice Gallery
delivers ready-made bitmap and vector graphics, sound files,
animated GIFs, and backgrounds that you can insert with drag-and-drop
ease into presentations, reports, and anything else you create
in the StarOffice suite.
- StarOffice Player
is a standalone program that runs a StarOffice Impress presentation
on any system, without installing the entire StarOffice suite.
- StarOffice Address
Book enables
you to exchange contact information with all major applications.
- StarOffice Basic
is the suite's easy-to-learn macro program and programming language.
Using StarOffice Basic, you can automate repetitive everyday tasks,
build your own file converter, or create an application with a
user interface.
The program also comes
with numerous pieces of clip art, templates, sample files, TrueType
and Postscript fonts, as well as multilingual proofing tools such
as spell check and a thesaurus in twenty languages, including English,
French, and Spanish.
System
Requirements
- 180 Mbytes of disk
space (240 Mbytes for full installation) for the Solaris Operating
Environment and Linux; 110 Mbytes of disk space (170 Mbytes for
full installation) for Microsoft Windows
- 32 Mbytes of memory
(64 Mbytes recommended)
- 256 colors or grayscale
(SVGA 800 x 600 or better recommended)
- 90 Mhz Intel Pentium
or equivalent; 85 Mhz SPARC processor (233 MHz Intel Pentium
or equivalent; 167 MHz SPARC processor recommended)
Supported
Operating Systems
- Solaris Operating
Environment 8, 7, 2.6, and 2.5.1; SPARC and Intel platforms
- Microsoft Windows
2000, NT 4.0, 98, 95
- Linux kernel 2.0.x
or higher; glibc2 version 2.1.1 on Intel x86-compatible hardware
Availability
- StarOffice 5.2 software
is available for free from the Sun Microsystems Web site at: www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html.
For a small shipping and handling fee, you may also order the
Deluxe Product Kit, which includes a CD and user documentation.
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