Students all over the world: Did you ever have a hard time with MS-Word and its sometimes strange behaviour? Or even sleepless nights, plagued by paranoia 'cause the copy of MS-Office you use is ... well ... not quite "bought"? This era of uneasiness is over now. Now you can use OpenOffice, a free open-source office suite which features everything the MS-suite does. And it has several advantages apart from being free: For example you can export your documents as .pdf files, and OpenOffice saves everything in XML format, which means that the documents thoretically can be converted into any format, e.g. into publishable .html. You can read the book OpenOffice.org XML Essentials on this topic by J. David Eisenberg online. The second thing is that Sun Microsystems maintains an own improved version of OpenOffice, called StarOffice. StarOffice has very good dictionaries implemented for example. And its free for students, university and school employees. via mosaikum

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