KOffice is an office suite of applications that comes with the KDE desktop. The KOffice package has the basic applications you would expect in an integrated office suite: a word processor (KWord), spreadsheet (KSpread), a presentation creator (KPresenter), and a diagram drawing program (KChart).

If you are using Fedora Core Linux, you can get RPMs for KOffice from the KOffice website www.koffice.org/download. If you are using Ubuntu or some other distribution, you can install it manually from source or from binary files. When you use KOffice you can select from the different office applications from the left column. Open multiple documents in any of the applications. Then click Documents in the left column to choose which one to display at the moment.

Using KOffice, you can work with a variety of document, spreadsheet and image types; not many commercial document formats are supported yet. So, you may need to import documents using other tools before you can read them into KWord. The KSpread can open several different spreadsheet styles, however, such as Microsoft Excel and GNUmeric spreadsheets. Kivo is a useful flowcharting tool.

KOffice can also be installed on Windows. However, the procedure is difficult and there may be bugs and other issues. So, for now we can conclude that KOffice has a long way to go before, it works on Windows satisfactorily.

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