Chapter 13: Going to the Office
Overview
In This Chapter
Introducing OpenOffice
Using OpenOffice Writer
Printing from OpenOffice
Red Hat Linux is a great product that comes with a large base of services and applications. It has always been an outstanding platform for providing services and technical applications. But you didn’t find Red Hat, until recently, on many of the world’s workday computers; in other words, it lacked a presence on the “desktop.”The Red Hat problem was its lack of a full-blown office suite to work with word processing documents, spreadsheets, and similar documents. Fortunately, desktop productivity suites — such as OpenOffice and its sister application, StarOffice — have taken Linux out of the back office and into the front.