Staroffice™ 6.0 Office Suite —A Sun™ ONE Software Offering
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Datasheet StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite On the Web sun.com/staroffice StarOffice™ 6.0 Office Suite —A Sun™ ONE Software Offering A full-featured, alternative office suite. Key feature highlights A Complete Solution Supports XML-based file formats for com- The StarOffice™ 6.0 office suite—a Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) software offering— patibility and flexibility provides a feature-rich, full-function office productivity suite at an excellent value while offering a full range of world-class service and support. It delivers exceptional cross-platform compatibility Compatible with StarOffice 5.x files with enhanced support for the Solaris™Operating Environment, Linux, and Microsoft Windows, Delivers improved Microsoft Office inter- and is designed to suit all your business needs. operability Provides new online help With StarOffice You Don’t Pay More, You Just Get More. Why pay more for an office productivity suite when StarOffice 6.0 software delivers the function- Supports native desktop environments ality you need? With the StarOffice suite, you get tools for word processing, developing spread- Provides creativity and productivity tools sheets, making presentations, creating graphics, editing photos, publishing to the Web, and using Offers extensive clip art and templates data from relational databases. All StarOffice applications are integrated—they share the same basic menu commands, toolbars, and function keys, so you can get your work done faster. With Delivers easy integration with address StarOffice software’s automatic IntuitiveUse technology, the precise tools you need for the task books (StarOffice, Microsoft Outlook, LDAP, at hand are just a mouse click away. Netscape,™ Mozilla,™ and other file formats) Compatibility Cost Savings Supported Languages Open, modify, and save Microsoft Office files StarOffice 6.0 gives you a feature-rich, full- StarOffice 6.0 Software: easily. StarOffice 6.0 software runs on the function office productivity suite for hundreds – English Solaris Operating Environment, Linux, and of dollars less than other popular office suites. – German Microsoft Windows. –French Sun Services – Italian Productivity Sun Microsystems backs StarOffice software – Spanish This complete, full-featured office productivity with a wide array of service options ranging – Swedish suite has everything you need to create elegant from online support at sun.com/star/support word documents, sophisticated drawings, pro- to on-site service. StarSuite 6.0 software1: fessional presentations, dynamic spreadsheets, StarOffice 6.0 software is now available in 10 – Simplified Chinese HTML Web publishing, photo editing, and more. languages, including four key Asian languages. – Traditional Chinese It’s designed to simplify the user experience and – Japanese Simplicity improve ease of file exchange. Unicode techno- – Korean StarOffice 6.0 applications are easy and famil- logy brings the richness of features to the Asian 1StarSuite software is the official name for the Chinese, iar. Even complex jobs are simplified by moving markets with Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language versions of StarOffice software effortlessly from one application to another. Japanese, and Korean language support. Datasheet StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite P 2 Seamless integration with the Microsoft Windows and down menu from the toolbar that allows users UNIX operating systems offers exceptional cross-platform to choose to paste the copied or cut text or ob- ject in its original format or in a special format. compatibility with enhanced support. Undo/Redo has been improved to provide users with a pull-down menu that lets them choose which options to undo/redo. Smart URL attri- butes enable users to streamline the process of changing a hyperlink in a document by auto- matically adapting when settings are changed. There is also a wealth of new spreadsheet func- tions that make financial and mathematical Free StarOffice Training soft Office fonts. Opening Microsoft Office files functions, such as determining the yield of a A free Web-based course helps new StarOffice in StarOffice brings over the same looking fonts treasury bill, even easier to perform in Star- software users get up to speed quickly. The Star- and better retains the original formatting. For Office and facilitate the exchange with Micro- Office Overview Course outlines the basic steps those users who want to save all their files in soft Excel users. of using and understanding StarOffice software. Microsoft Office format, or even Ami Pro, HTML, Seamless integration with the Microsoft This course is available through the Sun Web previous versions of StarOffice, or other file Windows and UNIX® operating systems offers Learning Center at sun.com/star/support. formats, the new file format saving preferences exceptional cross-platform compatibility with allow them to set the default standard file enhanced support for Solaris, Linux, and Mi- Share Documents With Others format. Whatever you want to save your text, crosoft Windows software users. Some of the Because the StarOffice suite is designed with spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing docu- highlights include quick launch for Microsoft cross-platform capabilities, it gives you freedom ments and formulas in, you can. Windows users, improved font rendering and of choice. Running on more platforms than any printing solutions for UNIX systems, and im- other office suite—the Solaris Operating Environ- StarOffice Native Environment: Easy Access to proved integration for print to PDF support. ment, Linux, and Microsoft Windows—StarOffice Program and System Resources software helps you share documents with other The StarOffice native environment is the center Design a Unique Personal Environment applications, including Microsoft Office XP. of everything you do in the StarOffice suite. In It’s easy to create the ideal work environment. Utilization of the nonproprietary, open, publicly the StarOffice 6.0 release, the integrated desk- Choose your own images, customize the Gallery, available eXtensible Markup Language (XML) top was removed to support the native desktop and create and preview documents using the as the default file format provides anyone, any- environment, such as GNOME, CDE, and Micro- new embedded creativity and productivity tools. where, with the ability to build or use widely soft Windows, while still providing overall sys- All StarOffice modules share the same basic available tools to open, edit, and save StarOffice tem integration without forcing users to use menu commands, toolbars, and function keys; files. The new XML file formats are compressed, the StarOffice desktop. and StarOffice software’s IntuitiveUse techno- resulting in dramatically reduced file sizes. There is a new online help system with logy automatically provides users with the tools Improved interoperability makes it even a new user interface and improved content, they need for the task at hand. To make things easier to exchange files with Microsoft Office including how-to information, to make it easy even easier, charting, clip art gallery, and gra- users. With this latest version, StarOffice soft- for people new to the StarOffice productivity phics tools are now accessible from pull-down ware has improved upon the best Microsoft suite to get the task at hand done quickly. Im- menus and toolbars from within each Star- Office import and export filters available today. proved user interface and usability—to enhance Office module. Extensive new clip art and tem- The StarOffice 6.0 release now supports edit- readability and make the application more intui- plates make it even easier to add fun and color able Microsoft Office OLE objects, auto shapes, tive to use—can be found with the new re- to your documents or to start a new document frames, charts, and form controls, and boasts designed dialog boxes, tab pages, and menus. from scratch. The revamped StarOffice Gallery improved PowerPoint filters. Some commonly used features have been contains a wide variety of professionally de- More importantly, the StarOffice 6.0 re- improved to make tasks even easier, including signed, useful clip art, shapes, and animations, lease includes new TrueType fonts, metrically the Paste Special, Undo/Redo, and Smart URL organized by themes to help you find the images equivalent to the most commonly used Micro- functions. Paste Special now includes a drop- you want—quickly and easily. Datasheet StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite P 3 Other StarOffice Gallery features include or earlier, and insert them in your StarOffice Finally, the Microsoft Office 97/2000 the ability to create and organize your own 6.0 documents as OLE objects. import and export filters have been greatly themes, preview sounds and images, and im- You can also integrate new data sources enhanced to facilitate the import and export port images of your own for future use. The new quickly and easily. StarOffice 6.0 software intro- of charts from Microsoft Excel to StarOffice Templates dialog box helps you streamline duces a new dialog box for administering office- Calc 6.0 and vice versa, including the content your work; you can browse, preview, organize, wide access to data sources. Using this dialog of charts, the format of 2D and 3D charts, and and even edit your templates before opening box, you can build connections to existing data the settings for x, y, and z axes and gridlines. them. There’s also new support for open stan- sources, specify StarOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel, StarOffice Calc