Minimum Requirements

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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Minimum Requirements

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 requires one of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows XP, 2003, 2012, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 or 11

• GNU/Linux Kernel version 2.6 and glibc 2.5 or higher

• macOS 10.7 (Lion) or higher

For more details, see https://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo41.html

Some features (wizards, some accessibility features, and the HSQLDB database engine) require that a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) be installed on your computer. Although Apache OpenOffice will work without Java support, those features will not be available. The current versions of Apache OpenOffice work reliably with a variety of JREs including Oracle Java, versions 6, 7 and 8, openJDK, versions 6, 7 and 8 and AdoptOpenJDK, versions 8 and 11. You should use the most recent version of whichever JRE you choose for the best security and reliability.

For Microsoft Windows, a 32-bit JRE MUST be installed, even on a 64-bit machine