If your computer already has a basic Windows or Linux system pre-installed, you don't have to splash out a further £119.99 for the basic Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student edition – or even £449.99 for the professional edition. Indeed, many computer specialists claim the free OpenOffice software suite is far superior.
OpenOffice is a free office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems.
The package is designed as a single piece of software comprising five powerful applications: Writer, its word processing software: Calc, its spreadsheet creator: Impress for creating multi-media presentations: Draw for creating simple graphics: and Base which allows you to create and maintain databases.
Draw is a great free equivalent to micrisoft Visio , it is not as good as Visio but it is free and you can do process flow diagrams on it .Visio can be around £300 think of the money you are saving
Creating a Flowchart in OpenOffice
To download open office
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
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Posted by L Kempes
