Novell SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 STORAGE Application Manual

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Desktop

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March17,2009 Application Guide

Application Guide

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Contents

About This Guide xi

Part I OpenOfce.org Novell Edition 1

1 The OpenOfce.org Ofce Suite 3

1.1 OpenOfce.org Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2 What's New in OpenOfce.org 3.0? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.3 Novell Edition of OpenOfce.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.4 Compatibility with Other Ofce Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.5 Starting OpenOfce.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.6 Saving OpenOfce.org Files with a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.7 Signing Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.8 Customizing OpenOfce.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.9 Changing the Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.10 Using Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1.11 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2 OpenOfce.org Writer 17

2.1 What's New in Writer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.2 Creating a New Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3 Sharing Documents with Other Word Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.4 Formatting with Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.5 Working with Large Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.6 Using Writer as an HTML Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3 OpenOfce.org Calc 27

3.1 What's New in Calc? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3.2 Creating a New Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.3 Using Formatting and Styles in Calc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4 Further OpenOfce.org Modules 31

4.1 Using Presentations with Impress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.2 Using Databases with Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

4.3 Creating Graphics with Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.4 Creating Mathematical Formulas with Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Part II Information Management 41

5 Kontact: E-Mailing and Calendaring 43

5.1 Kontact Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

5.2 Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.3 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

5.4 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5.5 Kontact for GroupWise Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

5.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

6 Evolution: E-Mail and Calendaring 61

6.1 Starting Evolution for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

6.2 Using Evolution: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

7 GroupWise Linux Client: E-Mailing and Calendaring 81

7.1 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

8 Synchronizing a Handheld Computer with KPilot 83

8.1 Conguring the Handheld Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

8.2 Conduits, Communication and Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

8.3 Conduits Used by KPilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

8.4 Synchronizing with KOrganizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

8.5 Conguring the KAddressBook Conduit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

8.6 Working with KPilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

8.7 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

9 Synchronizing Your Handheld Devices with GNOME Pilot 91

9.1 GNOME Pilot Conguration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

9.2 The Pilot Applet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

10 Encryption with KGpg 99

10.1 Why Signing and Encrypting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

10.2 Generating a New Key Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

10.3 Exporting the Public Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

10.4 Importing Public Keys from Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

10.5 The Key Server Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

10.6 Encrypting Your Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

10.7 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

11 Encryption with Passwords and Encryption Keys 111

11.1 Signing and Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

11.2 Generating a New Key Pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

11.3 Modifying Key Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

11.4 Importing Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

11.5 Exporting Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

11.6 Signing a Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

11.7 Encryption Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

12 Taking Notes with BasKet 125

12.1 Creating Baskets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

12.2 Working with Baskets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

12.3 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

13 Taking Notes with Tomboy 131

13.1 Creating Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

13.2 Searching All Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

13.3 Linking Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

13.4 Accessing Your Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

13.5 Formatting Text in Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

13.6 Exporting Notes to HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

13.7 Deleting Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

13.8 Printing Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

13.9 Conguring Tomboy Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Part III Communication and Collaboration 145

14 Instant Messaging with Kopete 147

14.1 Conguring Kopete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

14.2 Chatting with Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

14.3 Customizing Kopete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

14.4 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

15 Instant Messaging with Pidgin 155

15.1 Conguring Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

15.2 Managing Your Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

15.3 Chatting with Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

15.4 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

16 Using Voice over IP with Ekiga 159

16.1 Conguring Ekiga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

16.2 The Ekiga User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

16.3 Making a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

16.4 Answering a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

16.5 Using the Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Part IV Internet 167

17 Browsing with Konqueror 169

17.1 Tabbed Browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

17.2 Automatic Scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

17.3 Proles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

17.4 Saving Web Pages and Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

17.5 Searching with Konqueror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

17.6 Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

17.7 Java and JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

17.8 Enabling Advertisement Blockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

17.9 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

18 Browsing with Firefox 177

18.1 Navigating Web Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

18.2 Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

18.3 Managing Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

18.4 Using the Download Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

18.5 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

18.6 Customizing Firefox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

18.7 Printing from Firefox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

18.8 Opening MHTML Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

18.9 Displaying Microsoft Silverlight Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

18.10 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

19 Transferring Data From the Internet 199

19.1 ASCII vs. Binary Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

19.2 Connecting to a Remote Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

19.3 Transferring Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

19.4 Setting Up an HTTP Proxy Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

19.5 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Part V Graphics 203

20 Manipulating Graphics with The GIMP 205

20.1 Graphics Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

20.2 Starting The GIMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

20.3 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

20.4 Saving Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

20.5 Editing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

20.6 Printing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

20.7 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

21 Managing Your Digital Image Collection with DigiKam 223

21.1 Conguring Your Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

21.2 Downloading Pictures from the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

21.3 Managing Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

21.4 Managing Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

21.5 Creating Powerful Search Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

21.6 Exporting Image Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

21.7 Viewing and Editing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

21.8 Useful Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

21.9 Batch Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

21.10 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

21.11 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

22 Managing Your Digital Image Collection with F-Spot 245

22.1 Importing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

22.2 Downloading Pictures from Your Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

22.3 Getting Photo Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

22.4 Managing Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

22.5 Searching and Finding Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

22.6 Exporting Image Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

22.7 Basic Photo Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

22.8 Sharing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Part VI Multimedia 263

23 Playing Music and Movies: amaroK, Kaffeine and More 265

23.1 Mixers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

23.2 Playing Music Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

23.3 Handling Audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

23.4 Playing Movie Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

23.5 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

24 Playing and Managing Your Music with Banshee 279

24.1 Listening to Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

24.2 Managing Your Music Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

24.3 Using Banshee with Your Digital Audio Player . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

24.4 Creating Audio and MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

24.5 Sharing Your Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

24.6 Conguring Banshee Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

25 Playing Videos with Totem 295

25.1 Using Totem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

25.2 Modifying Totem Movie Player Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

26 Burning CDs and DVDs With K3b 305

26.1 Creating a Data CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

26.2 Creating an Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

26.3 Copying a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

26.4 Writing ISO Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

26.5 Creating a Multisession CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

26.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

27 Burning CDs and DVDs With Brasero 313

27.1 Creating a Data CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

27.2 Creating an Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

27.3 Copying a CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

27.4 Writing ISO Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

27.5 Creating a Multisession CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

27.6 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Part VII Appendix 317

28 Help and Documentation 319

28.1 Using the KDE Help Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

28.2 Using GNOME Yelp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

28.3 Browsing Man and Info Pages From Your Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . 323

28.4 Additional Help Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

29 Getting to Know Linux Software 325

29.1 Ofce Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

29.2 Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

29.3 Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

29.4 Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

29.5 System and File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

29.6 Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

About This Guide

This manual introduces you to a variety of applications shipping with SUSE® Linux

Enterprise Desktop. It guides you through using these applications and helps you perform

key tasks. It is intended mainly for end users.

The manual is subdivided into the following parts:

OpenOfce.org Novell Edition

Introduces the OpenOfce.org suite, including Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw,

and Math. Learn which additional features are included in the Novell edition of

OpenOfce.org.

Information Management

Get to know the e-mailing and calendaring software provided by your product.

Learn how to synchronize your data to handheld devices and how to use protected

information transfer by signing and encrypting your documents or mails. Make use

of note taking applications to collect and sort information and to organize your

ideas.

Communication and Collaboration

Stay in contact with others and communicate via network connections using Instant

Messaging or Voice over IP.

Internet

Enjoy searching information on the Web with browsers combining the latest

browsing and security technologies. Make use of le transfers client to transfer

data from the Internet.

Graphics

Get to know The GIMP, an image manipulation program that meets the needs of

both amateurs and professionals. Learn how to download digital photographs from

your camera and how to manage your image collection by creating albums or ex-

porting them to image galleries on the Web.

Multimedia

Introduces your desktop's applications for playing music and movies. Find how to

create data or audio CDs and DVDs for archiving your data.

Many chapters in this manual contain links to additional documentation resources. This

includes additional documentation that is available on the system as well as documen-

tation available on the Internet.

For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest docu-

mentation updates, refer to http://www.novell.com/documentation or to

the following section.

1 Available Documentation

We provide HTML and PDF versions of our books in different languages. The following

manuals for users and administrators are available on this product:

GNOME User Guide (↑GNOME User Guide)

Introduces the GNOME desktop of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. It guides you

through using and conguring the desktop and helps you perform key tasks. It is

intended mainly for end users who want to make efcient use of GNOME desktop

as their default desktop.

Application Guide (page 1)

Learn how to use and congure key desktop applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Desktop. This guide introduces browsers and e-mail clients as well as ofce appli-

cations and collaboration tools. It also covers graphics and multimedia applications.

Deployment Guide (↑Deployment Guide)

Shows how to install single or multiple systems and how to exploit the product

inherent capabilities for a deployment infrastructure. Choose from various approach-

es, ranging from a local installation or a network installation server to a mass de-

ployment using a remote-controlled, highly-customized, and automated installation

technique.

Administration Guide (↑Administration Guide)

Covers system administration tasks like maintaining, monitoring and customizing

an initially installed system.

Security Guide (↑Security Guide)

Introduces basic concepts of system security, covering both local and network se-

curity aspects. Shows how to make use of the product inherent security software

like Novell AppArmor (which lets you specify per program which les the program

xii Application Guide

may read, write, and execute) or the auditing system that reliably collects informa-

tion about any security-relevant events.

Virtualization with Xen (↑Virtualization with Xen)

Offers an introduction to virtualization technology of your product. It features an

overview of the various elds of application and installation types of each of the

platforms supported by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as well as a short description

of the installation procedure.

In addition to the comprehensive manuals, several quick start guides are available:

Installation Quick Start (↑Installation Quick Start)

Lists the system requirements and guides you step-by-step through the installation

of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from DVD, or from an ISO image.

Linux Audit Quick Start

Gives a short overview how to enable and congure the auditing system and how

to execute key tasks such as setting up audit rules, generating reports, and analyzing

the log les.

Novell AppArmor Quick Start

Helps you understand the main concepts behind Novell® AppArmor.

Find HTML versions of most SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop manuals in your installed

system under /usr/share/doc/manual or in the help centers of your desktop.

Find the latest documentation updates at http://www.novell.com/

documentation where you can download PDF or HTML versions of the manuals

for your product.

2 Feedback

Several feedback channels are available:

About This Guide xiii

• To report bugs for a product component or to submit enhancements requests, please

use https://bugzilla.novell.com/. If you are new to Bugzilla, you

might nd the Bug Writing FAQs helpful, available from the Novell Bugzilla home

page.

• We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other

documentation included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature

at the bottom of each page of the online documentation and enter your comments

there.

3 Documentation Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:

•

/etc/passwd: directory names and lenames

•

placeholder: replace placeholder with the actual value

•

PATH: the environment variable PATH

•

ls, --help: commands, options, and parameters

•

user: users or groups

•

Alt, Alt + F1: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as

on a keyboard

•

File, File > Save As: menu items, buttons

•

Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a

chapter in another manual.

xiv Application Guide

Part I. OpenOfce.org Novell

Edition

1

The OpenOfce.org Ofce

Suite

OpenOfce.org is a powerful open-source ofce suite that provides tools for all types

of ofce tasks, such as writing texts, working with spreadsheets, or creating graphics

and presentations. With OpenOfce.org, you can use the same data across different

computing platforms. You can also open and edit les in other formats, including

Microsoft Ofce, then save them back to this format, if needed. This chapter contains

information that applies to all of the OpenOfce.org modules and gives an overview

of the features specic to the Novell edition of OpenOfce.org that is shipped with

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop.

1.1 OpenOfce.org Modules

OpenOfce.org consists of several application modules (subprograms), which are de-

signed to interact with each other. They are listed in Table 1.1 . A full description of

each module is available in the online help, described in Section 1.11, “For More Infor-

mation” (page 15).

Table 1.1

The OpenOfce.org Application Modules

PurposeModule

Word processor application moduleWriter

Spreadsheet application moduleCalc

Presentation application moduleImpress

The OpenOfce.org Ofce Suite 3

PurposeModule

Database application moduleBase

Application module for drawing vector graphicsDraw

Application module for generating mathematical formulasMath

The following chapters cover individual OpenOfce.org modules:

Chapter 2, OpenOfce.org Writer (page 17)

Introduces OpenOfce.org Writer.

Chapter 3, OpenOfce.org Calc (page 27)

Introduces OpenOfce.org Calc.

Chapter 4, Further OpenOfce.org Modules (page 31)

Introduces OpenOfce.org Impress, Base, Draw, and Math.

1.2 What's New in OpenOfce.org

3.0?

For a list of new core features available with OpenOfce.org 3.0, refer to http://

www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/.

1.3 Novell Edition of OpenOfce.org

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop includes the Novell edition of OpenOfce.org. The

Novell edition includes several enhancements that are not yet included in the standard

edition:

Excel VBA Macro Interoperability:

OpenOfce.org Novell edition eases the migration of many macros from Microsoft

Excel. Although not all macros can be successfully migrated, this interoperability

offers more than the standard edition, which does not support migration of macros.

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Data Pilots:

Data Pilots are interoperable with Microsoft Ofce PivotTables*. OpenOfce.org

Novell edition substantially improves the Data Pilot feature, making it possible to

edit pilots after creation.

Enhanced Fonts:

Licensed fonts from Agfa* Monotype* which are metrically identical and visually

compatible with some of the key Microsoft fonts. This allows OpenOfce.org

Novell edition to match fonts when opening documents originally composed in

Microsoft Ofce, and very closely match pagination and page formatting.

EMF+Support:

The ability to render EMF+ formatted graphics.

SVG Support:

The ability to import scalable vector graphics.

Import File Formats:

Microsoft Works, WordPerfect* text and graphics, T602 les, Ofce Open XML,

and more.

GroupWise® Integration:

OpenOfce.org Novell edition includes improved integration with ODMA (Open

Document Management Architecture) services, for example for GroupWise. If you

have the GroupWise client installed on the machine, OpenOfce.org Novell edition

will offer to open documents from GroupWise, or save documents in GroupWise.

You can also use the standard edition of OpenOfce.org rather than the Novell edition.

If you install the latest version of OpenOfce.org, all of your Novell edition les remain

compatible. However, the standard edition does not contain the enhancements made in

the Novell edition.

1.4 Compatibility with Other Ofce

Applications

OpenOfce.org can work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases

in many other formats, including Microsoft Ofce. They can be seamlessly opened like

other les and saved back to the original format. Though some work has already been

The OpenOfce.org Ofce Suite 5

invested in interoperability, occasionally there are still formatting issues. If you have

problems with your documents, consider opening them in the original application and

resaving them in an open format such as RTF for text documents. In case of migration

problems with spreadsheets however, it is advisable to re-save them as Excel le and

use this as intermediate format (with CSV format you would lose all cell formatting

and CVS sometimes leads to incorrect cell type detection for spreadsheets).

TIP: OpenOfce.org Migration Guide

For good information about migrating from other ofce suites to OpenOf-

ce.org, refer to the OpenOfce.org Migration Guide at http://

documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/

0600MG-MigrationGuide.pdf.

1.4.1 Converting Documents to the

OpenOfce.org Format

OpenOfce.org can read, edit, and save documents in a number of formats. It is not

necessary to convert les from those formats to the OpenOfce.org format to use those

les. However, if you want to convert the les, you can do so. To convert a number of

documents, such as when rst switching to OpenOfce.org, do the following:

1

Select File > Wizards > Document Converter.

2

Choose the le format from which to convert.

There are several StarOfce and Microsoft Ofce formats available.

3

Click Next.

4

Specify where OpenOfce.org should look for templates and documents to

convert and in which directory the converted les should be placed.

Documents retrieved from a Windows partition are usually in a subdirectory of

/windows.

5

Make sure that all other settings are appropriate, then click Next.

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