Open Office is an Office Suite that runs on a variety of platforms including Windows, OSX, Solaris and Linux. It is derived from Star Office (also on Athena), and is highly compatible with it; it is essentially the same as Star Office with a few proprietary features (thesaurus,clip art..) left out. Most documentation written for Star Office also applies to the corresponding release of Open Office.
Open Office 2.3.1 is the current default on Athena; this is the version you get by typing: add ooffice; ooffice &
2.2.1 is also available; you can launch it by typing: add ooffice;ooffice -ver 2.2.1 &
The corresponding Star Office release is version 8
General usage information can be found in the What Runs Where listing. There are also pdf manuals. There is a fairly extensive online help system that explains most features, and many links to documentation from the openoffice.org support page. Star Office and Open Office books are also available from commercial publishers.
Open Office is a supported software package in the Athena Computing Environment. By "supported" we mean:
Open Office mailing lists; Sun has a Star Office FAQ
Help with Open Office
If you are affiliated with
MIT, contact
Athena Consulting (on Athena, type "olc").
Otherwise, see the other resources above.
Sending bug reports
Athena users should report
problems via the "sendbug" command.
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availability of software on Athena should be sent to
3partysw@mit.edu.
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