KOffice Suite

KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. KOffice applications use OpenDocument as their native file format when possible. KOffice developers plan to share as much infrastructure as possible between applications to reduce bugs and improve the user experience. They also want to create an OpenDocument library for use in other KDE applications that will allow developers to easily add support for reading and outputting OpenDocument files to their applications. Automating tasks and extending the suite with custom functionality can be done with dbus or with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. KOffice includes the following components:

• KWord

  A frame-based word processor that can work in two modes: page oriented or layout oriented.

• KSpread

  A powerful spreadsheet application with multiple sheet support, templates and more than 100 mathematical formulas.

• KPresenter

  A full-featured presentation program with image and effect support.

• Kexi

  An integrated environment for creating databases and database applications, designed as a Microsoft Access or FileMaker competitor. It can be used for designing and implementing databases, inserting and processing data and performing queries. It has limited compatibility with the MS Access file format.

• Kivio
  A Visio®-style flowcharting application with dynamically loadable stencils.

• Karbon14
  A vector drawing application with a variety of drawing and editing tools.

• Krita
  A layered pixel image manipulation application, primarily designed as a painting program, with some image processing features.

• KPlato
  An integrated project management and planning tool.

• KChart
  An integrated graph and chart drawing tool.

• KFormula
  A powerful formula editor.

• Kugar
  A tool for generating business quality reports.

Download KOffice @ http://www.koffice.org/download/

Many Linux distributions now include a version of KOffice suite in their own native package manager format (.rpm, .deb, etc.)

Using Yum to install KOffice

start a terminal and type the following at the shell prompt:

# yum install koffice-kchart koffice-karbon koffice-core koffice-filters
koffice-kspread koffice-krita koffice-kpresenter koffice-kformula 
koffice-kplato koffice-kexi koffice-kugar koffice-kword koffice-kivio 
koffice-libs

Using Apt to install KOffice

start a terminal and type the following at the shell prompt:

# apt-get install koffice
or 
# sudo apt-get install koffice

Using Urpmi to install KOffice

start a terminal and type the following at the shell prompt:

# urpmi koffice

Other Open Source Office Suites

• GNOME Office
• Openoffice.org