Hay, I thought this was a web site about the Bible and Christianity!

Well yes it is and part of being a Christian is Good Stewardship! And another is about helping your fellow Christians.

If you are working on an old version of MS Office and are feeling left a bit behind, but do not want to fork out lots of money the Lord has given to Microsoft OpenOffice.org may just be what you need.

OpenOffice.org provides everything most people need in an office productivity suite. It is stable, reliable, and robust, built up over twenty years’ development. Unlike its major competitor, it was designed from the start as a single piece of software, which makes for higher quality software and a more consistent user experience. It is actively developed, with several releases every year. The main components of the OpenOffice.org Suite are the

• Writer wordprocessor
• Calc spreadsheet
• Impress for presentations
• Draw for graphics
• Base database

OpenOffice.org is both easy to use and easy to migrate to, for both experienced and beginners alike. It has a familiar user interface, and is able to read and write the vast majority of legacy file formats (including common Microsoft Office formats). It is supported in over seventy languages, with active support both Community based (free) and from commercial organisations (paid-for).

OpenOffice.org is released under an open-source licence (the LGPL), which means it may be used free of any licence fees, for any purpose: private, governmental, commercial, etc. Once acquired (either as a free download or as a CD) it may be installed on an unlimited number of computers, and maybe copied and distributed without restriction. OpenOffice.org supports extensions, allowing users to add on extra functions easily from an extensions repository. This is a key differentiator from the competition.

OpenOffice.org is available on all major computing platforms and is supported in over seventy languages. Our best estimate is that OpenOffice.org currently enjoys over 15% market share for office productivity suites.

Honest I do not get paid to promote this – I just think it is a great product and that the Kingdom of God could benefit from it’s use. In fact this article was drafted on OpenOffice.org3 word processor Writer. You can download it from here.