Office Software

Of course, one of the staple applications for any workstation operating system is an office package. If you have KDE installed, you already have an office package, called KOffice, installed on your FreeBSD system. KOffice is a fully featured office package that includes the following features:

  • A word processor that also serves as a quite capable desktop publishing program

  • A spreadsheet

  • A presentation program similar to PowerPoint

  • A charting program

  • An illustration and drawing program

Starting KOffice

You can start KOffice applications in two ways. The first is by running the KOffice Workspace program, which is located under the Office sub-menu of the K menu in KDE. This will bring up a window that looks like Figure 20.1.

Figure 20.1. ...

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