Starting Apache OpenOffice

Getting Started with Apache OpenOffice 4

Chapter 1: Introducing Apache OpenOffice

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• What is Apache OpenOffice?
• The advantages of Apache OpenOffice
• Minimum requirements
• How to get and install the software
• Extensions and Add-Ons
• Starting Apache OpenOffice
• Parts of the main window
• Starting a new document
• Opening an existing document
• Saving documents
• Password protection
• Using the Navigator
• Using the Open and Save As dialogs
• Undoing and redoing changes
• Reloading a document
• Closing a document

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Starting Apache OpenOffice

In general, you start Apache OpenOffice the same way you start any other program on your computer.

On Windows and Linux, entries for Apache OpenOffice and each of its components appear in the system menu of your computer. On macOS, only an entry for Apache OpenOffice is added to the Applications menu. You can make a desktop icon for Apache OpenOffice or a component in the same way you can make a desktop icon for any other program; see your operating system’s help for how to do this.

• Clicking on the Apache OpenOffice menu entry, desktop icon, or tile opens the Apache OpenOffice Start Center from where you can select the individual components. You can also choose to open an existing file or use a template.
• On Windows, you can use the Quickstarter (see below).
• You can double-click on the filename of a document with an OpenDocument extension such as .odt, .ods, .odp in a file manager such as Windows Explorer, Finder on macOS, or Nautilus on Linux. The appropriate component will start, and the document will be loaded.