StarOffice Writer 8 running on Solaris |
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| Developer(s) | Sun Microsystems, community |
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| Stable release | 9 Update 4 / November 17, 2008 |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, Solaris[1] |
| Type | Word processor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | openoffice.org |
Oracle Open Office Writer is the word processor component of the Oracle Open Office software package. It was formerly known as StarOffice Writer, and before that, StarWriter. Writer is based on OpenOffice.org Writer and is similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect.
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StarWriter was owned by StarDivision, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. The word processor was the first component of the StarOffice suite, and was renamed StarOffice Writer. With Oracle's acquisition of Sun in 2010, the word processor was renamed again to Oracle Open Office Writer.
Writer is capable of opening and saving documents in a variety of formats, including the OASIS Open Document Format (its default format since version 8.0), Microsoft Word's DOC, RTF and XHTML.
Writer provides a number of features not present in its main competitor, Word, including the ability to export to the PDF format natively. It also includes a word completion mechanism for predictive writing that is not available in Microsoft Word as of June, 2008.
Unlike OpenOffice.org Writer, Oracle Open Office Writer includes a converter for VBA macros, and supports more file formats.
Features include:
Writer lacks a normal view editing mode, in which borders and spaces between pages are hidden in order to make extended editing more efficient.[2] This feature is available in Microsoft Word.
A grammar checker requires the installation of an extension.
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