An Oracle White Paper
January 2010
Oracle Open Office 3 and
Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison
Oracle White Paper—Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison
Introduction.......................................................................................... 1
Oracle Open Office Applications.......................................................... 2
Product Offerings................................................................................. 3
Ease-of-Learning Features.................................................................. 4
Ease of Use.......................................................................................... 5
General Formatting.............................................................................. 6
Word Processing.................................................................................. 7
HTML/Web Publishing....................................................................... 10
Spreadsheet....................................................................................... 11
Charting.............................................................................................. 13
Presentation....................................................................................... 14
Database............................................................................................ 16
Extras................................................................................................. 17
Desktop View..................................................................................... 18
Accessibility........................................................................................ 19
Localization........................................................................................ 20
Interoperability and Standards........................................................... 21
Graphic Support................................................................................. 24
System Requirements........................................................................ 25
Oracle White Paper—Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison
Introduction
This document compares key and detailed features of Oracle Open Office 3 and
Microsoft Office 2007. The comparison focuses on the following areas:
•
Product offerings. Comparing the various configurations of Microsoft Office 2007 to
Oracle Open Office
•
Ease-of-learning and ease-of-use features. Including the different types of help
•
Word processing. Including spelling, styles, versioning, and HTML publishing
•
Spreadsheet. Including formulas, charting, and pivot tables
•
Presentations. Including layouts, animation effects, styles, and drawing features
•
Database capabilities. Including database types/interfaces, forms, queries, and
reports
•
Additional areas. Covering extras (clip art, sample files, and the like), localization and
language support, and accessibility features
•
File formats and standards. Comparing those supported by both products
•
Graphic formats. Comparing those supported by both products
•
System requirements. Summarizing the operating systems supported, memory, hard
drive, and other hardware requirements of both products
This information is intended only for use as an overview comparison. It should not
replace a direct comparison in which both products are used and tested on a computer.
For more information, consult the online help that accompanies each of the products.
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Oracle Open Office Applications
The Oracle Open Office productivity suite consists of the following applications:
Oracle Open Office Writer
Oracle Open Office Writer is a word processor that provides flexible tables, frames for
highlighting, columns for professional layouts, indexes, tables of contents, forms functionality,
graphics handling, and built-in PDF export. Writer can read, edit, print, and save Microsoft Word
files. Whether you need to snap out a quick memo or craft an in-depth report with a table of
contents, diagrams, and an index, Writer makes it simple.
Oracle Open Office Calc
Oracle Open Office Calc is a spreadsheet application that provides professional data calculation,
hundreds of different formulas, the DataPilot (similar to Microsoft Excel’s pivot table), powerful
autofilters, a linear solver, access to external datasources, powerful 2-D/3-D charts, a formula
detective, a scenario calculator, and more. Calc can read, edit, print, and save Microsoft Excel
files. It enables you to calculate, analyze, and share your data quickly and easily.
Oracle Open Office Impress
Oracle Open Office Impress is a presentation tool that provides an intuitive front end for
creating and editing presentations, dozens of slide and custom animations, easy-to-use tables,
autoshape support, comments and notes, master functionality, and a presenter console (similar to
Presenter View in Microsoft PowerPoint). Impress can read, edit, print, and save Microsoft
PowerPoint files.
Oracle Open Office Draw
Oracle Open Office Draw is a vector graphic application that provides dozens of shapes in
addition to connectors for creating flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, organizational charts, and
much more. Draw helps you bring your communications to life with easy-to-create drawings,
sketches, charts, and more.
Oracle Open Office Base
Oracle Open Office Base is a database front end in Oracle Open Office. It provides a forms
editor with 25 controls; subform support; macro capabilities; a query editor; a powerful report
editor; and connectivity via MySQL, JDBC, and ODBC. Base enables you to easily create selfcontained database documents with all relevant data, table definitions, reports, and forms.
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Product Offerings
Table 1 provides an overview of the product configurations and applications.
TABLE 1: PRODUCT OFFERINGS
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE
OPEN
STANDARD
PROFES-
SMALL
PROFES-
BUSINESS
SIONAL PLUS
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
SIONAL
Word processing
X
Desktop
ENTERPRISE
ULTIMATE
OFFICE 3
X
publishing
Spreadsheet
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Presentation
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Database
E-mail/calendar
X
X
X
X
client
Drawing
X
Accounting
XML
X
X
X
X
X
XML forms
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Collaboration
solution
External
solutions
HTML editing
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Developer tools
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Math
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Presentation
X
X
X
X
X
X
player
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Other
Communi-
Communi-
Communi-
Installation
cation client
cation client
cation
support for
client
60 days
after
purchase1
Price2
$239/
$329/
$279/
Price not
Price not
$679/
(upgrade/full)
$399
$499
$449
quoted
quoted
$539
$49.95
Ease-of-Learning Features
Oracle Open Office 3 provides comprehensive, informative, and useful printed user
documentation. Microsoft Office 2007’s online help is reference-based, providing concise howto information. Oracle Open Office 3 offers easy to use online help and useful how-to
information. Oracle Open Office online help provides thorough background information on the
product and functionality.
TABLE 2: EASE-OF-LEARNING FEATURES
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Online help
• Office Assistant (not default)
• Keyword and full-text search
• Keyword and full-text search
• Bookmarks
• Help in response to typed questions
• Conceptual description of functionality
• Step-by-step how-to information
• How-to information
• Online/offline mode
• Search on Web
User manual
General introductory information, including
88-page Getting Started Guide,
features overview and user benefits
introducing the product capabilities in a
general manner
Web-based help
• Assistance Center, which organizes
hundreds of articles/ FAQs/ how-tos by
task and product
• FAQs (general product info plus
how-to)
• Support forum, including seven how-to
viewlets and information about support
and training resources
• Knowledge database
1
2
Tips/what’s this?
Yes: plus information on shortcut keys
Yes: plus extended tips
Migration (moving from Microsoft
N/A
Microsoft import autopilot for Word,
Not available in every country. Please check www.sun.com/star/support.
Sources: Oracle, Microsoft
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Office to Oracle Open Office)
PowerPoint, and Excel documents and
help
templates; white papers from the Web
site
Ease of Use
Oracle Open Office 3 provides excellent context menus (accessible by right-clicking), giving
users quick access to functionality relevant to the task at hand and maintaining the traditional way
of working with a Windows application, in turn lowering the cost of training. Finally, Oracle
Open Office software utilizes an “everything in one place” concept, so all tools for performing a
related task are grouped, making them easier to find.
TABLE 3: EASE OF USE
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Access to features
Multiple task panes for using styles,
Stylist, Gallery, and Navigator, which
inserting images, word translation,
offer easy and intuitive access to files,
opening files, and so on
images, and styles; multiple task panes
for using transition and animation effects
Toolbars
Replaced by Ribbons (similar to toolbars
67 default toolbars
but with totally different look and feel)
Customizable toolbars
Replaced by Ribbons, which are
Yes
customizable
Multiple toolbars
Yes
Yes
Most recently used menus
Yes
No
Pull-down menus
Replaced by Ribbons (see above for more
Fixed and customizable
details)
Context menus
Yes
Yes
Shortcut keys
Yes
Yes
Drag-and-drop
Yes
Yes
Migration aids
Filters for previous MS Office release and
Migration document, batch converter,
other Office products
autopilots
Document map based on styles
Navigator, which helps locate and jump
Large document navigation
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to sections, different files when merging
together, hyperlinked references, and
objects; change page up and down
buttons; and so on
XForms capabilities
No
Yes, with the OpenDocument file format
General Formatting
Oracle Open Office 3 offers general formatting features comparable to those of Microsoft
Office 2007. Oracle Open Office provides comprehensive mathematical calculations in word
processing tables and many customizable formatting options via the Style and Formatting dialog
box.
TABLE 4: GENERAL FORMATTING
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Font styles/effects
• 11 + 6 text effects + 17 underlines: bold,
• New fonts metrically equivalent to
italic, bold italic, strikethrough, double
strikethrough, superscript/subscript,
Microsoft’s top three fonts
• 11 + 5 text effect + 15 underlines: bold,
shadow, outline, emboss, engrave,
italic, bold italic, shadow, outline,
small/ all caps, hidden
emboss, engrave, 5 strikethroughs,
superscript/subscript, small/all caps,
hidden
Drop caps
Yes
Yes
Bullets/numbering
Yes
Yes
Borders/shading
Yes
Yes
Tables
• Yes
• Yes
• Table in table
• Yes
• Yes
• Table toolbar
• Yes (Ribbon)
• Yes
• Calculate in tables
• Yes
• Yes
• Create chart from table
• Yes
• Yes
• Autoformat/styles
• Yes
• Yes
• Repeat table heading
• Yes
• Yes
• Change text direction
• Yes
• Yes
• Distribute cells evenly
• Yes
• Yes
• Sort
• Yes
• Yes
• Banded row/column
• Yes
• No
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• Total row
• Yes
• No
Find-and-replace
Yes
Yes
Multiple undo/redo
Yes
Yes
Fields
Yes
Yes
Format paintbrush
Yes
Yes
Show/hide nonprinting
Yes
Yes
Autoshapes
Yes
Yes
3-D styles
Yes: 20
Yes: 12
3-D effects
Yes: tilt up/down/left/right, depth, direction,
Yes: illumination, shading shadow/
lighting, surface, color
camera, geometry: normals, rounded
characters
edges, scaled depth, rotation angle,
segments, textures, material properties
Diagrams
Yes
Yes
Word art
Yes: 30 (no custom)
Yes: fully customizable
SmartArt
Yes: 100
No
Import from camera/scanner
Yes
Yes
Word Processing
Word 2007 and Oracle Open Office 3 offer similar word processing functionality. Oracle Open
Office software offers additional strength in handling long documents.
TABLE 5: WORD PROCESSING
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
WRITER APPLICATION
Formatting
• Task pane WYSIWYG formats
• Style and Formatting dialog box
• Smart tags, enabling users to choose
formatting options
Views
• Screen
• Yes
• Yes
• Print preview
• Yes
• Yes
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• Web
• Yes
• Yes
• Outline
• Yes
• Yes: with the Navigator
• Reading
• Yes
• Multipage side-by-side view
• Document navigator
• Yes
• Yes
• Auto spell-check
• Yes
• Yes
• Context menu spelling
• Yes
• Yes
• Backup/undo
• Yes
• Yes
Grammar tool
Yes
No
Thesaurus
Yes
Yes
Research
Yes
No
• Correct
• Yes
• Yes
• Format
• Yes
• Yes
• Format as you type
• Yes
• Yes
• Complete
• Yes: programmable
• Yes: programmable; automatic after
Spelling
Autotext
second typing of word
Versions
• Track changes/redlines
• Yes
• Yes
• Authors in different colors
• Yes: comments in margin
• Yes: indicated by colors
• Document compare
• Yes
• Yes
• Version compare
• Yes
• Yes
Document properties
General, summary, statistics, custom, and
General, description, user-defined,
contents of document
internet, statistics
Header/footer
Yes
Yes
Table of contents
Yes
Yes
Index
Yes
Yes
Footnotes/endnotes
Yes
Yes
Forms
Yes
Yes
Click-’n’-type
Yes
Yes
Notes
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Collect and paste
24-item multiple clipboard with options for
No
formatting
Comments/notes
Yes
Yes
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
References
Yes
Yes
Autosummarize/abstract
Yes
Yes
E-mail from document
Yes
Yes
Sound support
Yes
Yes
Movie support
Yes
Yes
Drawing tools
Yes
Yes
SmartArt
Yes
No
Macro recorder
Yes
Yes
Fill color, line color, font color
Yes
Yes
File recovery
Yes
Yes
XML
Yes
Standardized, complete, and fully
documented; OpenDocument format
Built-in PDF export
No: requires plug-in
Yes
PDF import
No
Yes
Hybrid PDF
No
Yes
(fully editable PDF)
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HTML/Web Publishing
Oracle Open Office 3 provides advanced HTML creation, easy HTML code handling, and builtin URL links.
TABLE 6: HTML/WEB PUBLISHING
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
WRITER APPLICATION
HTML native file format
Yes
Yes
Web publishing
• Yes, for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
• Yes
Access
• Export files to HTML
• Creating and publishing of Weblogs
• XHTML export
• Ability to post Excel files, including pivot
• Oracle Weblog Publisher, Oracle Wiki
tables, charts, and worksheets
Publisher available as extensions
• Online collaboration and Web
discussion
Web editing
• Yes: load, edit, and save documents via
WebDAV and FTP protocol
• Yes: load, edit, and save documents
via FTP and WebDAV protocol
• ActiveX control to display and edit
• ActiveX control to display documents in
documents in an Internet Explorer
an Internet Explorer browser (Windows
browser
only) and plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox
browsers
Saving to server
Yes
Yes
Document sharing server
Yes: Microsoft SharePoint server
Yes: Microsoft SharePoint Server,
O3Spaces, Alfresco, and Collanos
Save presentation as self-
Yes
Yes
Insert hyperlink
Yes: automatic
Yes: automatic
View as HTML
Yes
Yes
WebDAV
Yes
Yes
Built-in PDF export
No: requires plug-in
Yes
Hybrid PDF (fully editable PDF)
No
Yes
Running XSLT scripts
Yes
Yes
running Web page
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Spreadsheet
Oracle Open Office offers spreadsheet functionality very similar to Microsoft Excel’s. Both are
highly programmable applications with hundreds of built-in functions. Oracle Open Office’s
language-independent APIs make adding more functionality very easy.
TABLE 7: SPREADSHEET
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT EXCEL 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
CALC APPLICATION
Pivot table/DataPilot
Yes
Yes
Statistical analysis
Yes
Yes
Web integration for stock quotes
Yes: with Smart Tag
Yes: with stock template
XML
Yes
Yes: ISO-standardized, complete, and
fully documented OpenDocument file
format
Running XSLT scripts
Yes
Yes
Error checking
Yes
Yes
Formula evaluator
Yes
Yes
Watch window
Yes
No
Function tips
Yes
Yes
Number of sheets
256
256
Number of columns
16,000
1,024
Number of rows
1 million
65,536
Text effects
5 types of underlines, strikethrough,
Outline, shadow, underline, strikethrough,
superscript, subscript
15 types of underlines, 5 types of
strikethroughs, embossed, engraved
Horizontal alignment
Default, left, center, right, filled, justified,
Default, left, center, right, filled, justified
centered across selection, distributed
Vertical alignment
Bottom, top, middle, distributed, justified
Default, top, bottom, middle
Text orientation
Yes
Yes
Number formats
11
10
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Border/patterns
Yes
Yes
Cell protection
Yes
Yes
SmartArt
Yes
No
Number of functions
>335
>275
• Date and time
• 19
• 30
• Financial
• 53
• 61
• Information
• 16
• 17
• Logical
• 7
• 6
• Mathematical
• 59
• 64
• Statistics
• 83
• 77
• Database
• 11
• 11
• Text
• 23
• 28
• Array/spreadsheet/lookup
• 18
• 33
• Engineering
• 39
• –
• Add-in
• –
• 40
Sorting options
Yes
Yes
Conditional formatting
Yes
Yes
Chart wizard
Yes
Yes
Find-and-replace
Yes
Yes
Custom lists
Yes
Yes
Spelling, autocorrect
Yes
Yes
Research
Yes
No
Cell styles, style catalog
Yes
Yes
Change tracking
Yes
Yes
Preview
Yes
Yes
Formula autopilot
Yes
Yes
Cell notes
Yes
Yes
Format as autoformat
Yes
Yes
Conditional formatting
Yes
Yes
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Goal seek
Yes
Yes
Scenarios
Yes
Yes
Subtotals
Yes
Yes
Programming
Yes
Yes
Macro recorder
Yes
Yes
Drawing tools
Yes
Yes
PDF export
Yes
Yes
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Chart gallery/ wizard
Yes: 73 chart types
Yes: 79 chart types
Graph colors update with
Yes
No
Working directly in cells
Yes
Yes
Tab through selected cell range
Yes
Yes
Drag legends
Yes
Yes
Live links to datafile
Yes
Yes
Bar charts
15
19
Column charts
19
21
Pie charts
6
8
• 2-D
• Yes
• Yes
• 3-D
• Yes, plus 3-D exploded
• Yes
• Proportional pies
• Yes: custom with percentage
• Yes
• Exploded pies
• Yes
• Yes
• Bar of pie
• Yes
• No
Line charts
7
8
• Projected 3-D
Yes
Yes
Charting
TABLE 8: CHARTING
presentation
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Scatter charts
7
4
Radar/net
3
6
Bubble
2
–
Doughnut
2
–
Stock
4
4
Area charts
6
6
• Stacked
• Yes
• Yes
• Shadowed 3-D
• Yes
• Yes
Create chart from table
Yes
Yes
Create chart without table
Yes
Yes
Presentation
Oracle Open Office 3 offers features similar to those of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. In addition,
Oracle Open Office offers more-advanced drawing functionality, giving users greater control and
flexibility for creating custom images.
TABLE 9: PRESENTATION
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
IMPRESS APPLICATION
Presentations to Web
Yes
Yes
Presentations as movies
Yes
No
Macromedia Flash export
No
Yes
Preview
Yes
Yes
Multiple slide designs
Yes
Yes
Image rotation
Yes
Yes
Password protection
Yes
Yes
Import outline from Writer
Yes
Yes
Styles
Yes
Yes
Layouts
20
20
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Views
• Outline
• Yes
• Yes
• Slide sorter
• Yes
• Yes
• Notes
• Yes
• Yes
• Slide show
• Yes
• Yes
• Handout
• Yes
• Yes
Transition effects
59
59
Animation effects
158
158
Effect preview
Yes
Yes
Package on CD
Yes
No
E-mail from presentation
Yes
Yes
Grid
Yes
Yes
Header/footer
Yes
Yes
Comments
Yes
No
Sound support
Yes
Yes
Movie support
Yes
Yes
Drawing tools
Yes
Yes
Canned shapes
Yes: 189
Yes: more than 200
Fill color, line color, font color
Yes
Yes
Edit points
Yes
Yes
3-D styles
Yes: 24
Yes: 12
3-D effects
Yes: not full 3-D engine, limiting the
Yes: full 3-D engine with full rotation and
appearance of 3-D effects; tilt, depth,
light sources; illumination, shading,
direction, lighting, surface color
rounded edges, scaled depth, rotation
angle, textures, and so on
Canned diagrams
Yes: 6
No
Word art
Yes: 30 default, no custom
Yes: fully customizable
SmartArt
Yes
No
Macro recorder
No
No
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XML
Yes
Standardized, complete, and fully
documented OpenDocument file format
Built-In PDF export
No: requires plug-in
Yes
PDF import
No
Yes: for Oracle Open Office Draw
Hybrid PDF (fully editable PDF)
No
Yes
Database
Oracle Open Office 3 provides a powerful database front end. Autopilots help you create
database tables, forms, reports, and queries. Use the powerful HSQL file format to save your
forms, reports, and queries with the data in one file. Microsoft Office provides the Access
database with the Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate versions of the Office suite only.
TABLE 10: DATABASE
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT ACCESS 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
(NOT IN ALL OFFICE EDITIONS )
BASE APPLICATION
• Design view
• Yes
• Yes
• Wizard
• Yes
• Yes
• SQL view
• Yes
• Yes
• Wizard
• Yes
• Yes
• Design view
• Yes
• Yes
• Wizard
• Yes
• Yes
• Design view
• Yes
• Yes: Oracle Open Office Report
• Wizard
• Yes
Database table
Queries
Forms
Reports
Builder
• Yes
Database types/interfaces
• JDBC
• No
• Yes
• ODBC
• Yes
• Yes
• ADO
• Yes
• Yes: Windows only
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• Access
• Yes: default
• Yes: Windows only
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Yes
• Yes: via JDBC/ODBC
• Microsoft Excel
• Yes
• Yes
• OpenDoc spreadsheet
• No
• Yes
• dBase
• –
• –
• Paradox
• Yes
• Yes: via ODBC
• Adabas D
• Yes
• Yes
• HSQLDB
• Yes: via ODBC
• Yes: default
• MySQL
• No
• Yes
• Oracle Database
• Yes: via ODBC
• Yes: via JDBC/ODBC
• Mozilla
• No
• Yes
• Windows
• Yes
• Yes
Number of controls for the
17
18
Number of form templates
25
10
Pivot table/chart as form
Yes
No
Number of styles for reports
25
6
Number of controls for the
17
5: Oracle Open Office Report Builder
Address books
database form
database report
Extras
Oracle Open Office 3 offers a large selection of templates and samples with the product, and
Microsoft provides good additional information and resources over the Web. The Oracle Open
Office software gallery makes it easy to view, select, and insert images and animations into users’
documents.
TABLE 11: EXTRAS
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
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• Word, 45
• Oracle Open Office Writer, 44
• Excel, 6
• Oracle Open Office Calc, 12
• PowerPoint, 60
• Oracle Open Office Impress, 77
• More templates on the Web
• Oracle Open Office Draw, 2
Clip art
400-plus images
New clip art: more than 700 images
Clip art insertion module
Task pane
Gallery, easy drag-and-drop includes
Templates
bidirectional import and export to and
from the gallery
Sounds (.wav files)
2
35
Animations
4
47
Clip art /sounds/animation
Grouped
Not grouped, but in the same folder
• Word: none
Document Converter, Agenda, Euro
• PowerPoint: none
Converter, Fax, List Box, Letter,
grouping
Wizards
• Excel: Text Import, Convert Text To
Column, Lookup Formula, Conditional
Sum, Creating Formula, Function
Arguments wizards
Presentation, Print Forms, DB
Connection, DB Forms, DB Report, DB
Query, DB Tables, HTML Web Page,
System Address Book, Chart wizards
• Access: Getting Started, Collect Data by
Using E-mail, Create Form, Create
Subform, Command Button, List Box,
Combo Box, Lookup, Query, Report,
Table, Upsizing, Database Splitter,
Export, Import wizards
Seamless integration of clip art
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
preview and insertion
Easy-to-store/reuse graphics
and diagrams
Desktop View
Oracle Open Office 3 integrates into the system seamlessly. Each module can be launched
separately, but these individual modules can also exchange document types with each other.
TABLE 12: DESKTOP VIEW
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DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
General appearance
Right panel changes with tasks at hand.
All modules are launched separately but
share the same code base, making
launching the consecutive applications
efficient for system resources.
Buttons
Replaced by Ribbons
• Normal
• Yes
• Yes
• Large
• No
• Yes
• Flat
• No
• Yes
Single document interface
Single
Single
• Page layout
• Yes
• Yes
• Draft
• Yes: not WYSIWYG
• No
• Web layout
• Yes
• Yes
• Outline
• Yes
• Yes: with Navigator
• Full screen
• Yes
• Yes
• Reading layout
• Yes
• Yes: multipage side-by-side view
Views
Accessibility
Oracle Open Office 3 uses the Java Access Bridge. This interface is supported by several
accessibility tools.
TABLE 13: ACCESSIBILITY
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Handwriting recognition
Yes: in Writing Pad or Office Anywhere
No
Onscreen keyboards
Yes: text and symbol
• Windows: Using third-party tools
• Linux: GNOME On-screen Keyboard
(GOK)
Speech recognition
Yes
No
Screen reader support
Yes: all Windows third-party tools on the
Yes: with third-party tools
market
• On Oracle Solaris and Linux:
Gnopernicus Screen Reader and
Magnifier
• On Windows: JAWs Screen Reader
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(4.5 or higher), ZoomText Screen
Magnifier (7.11 or higher)
Full keyboard navigation and
Yes
Yes
Use of system color schemes
Yes
Yes
System font and color settings
Yes
Yes
Optional suppression of graphics
Yes
Yes
Support for assistive
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
control
technologies
Nonblinking text selection cursor
Localization
Here is a comparison of available languages and localization features of Oracle Open Office 3
and Microsoft Office 2007. Note that through openoffice.org, Oracle provides the ability to
localize the code for many more countries and regions.
TABLE 14: LOCALIZATION
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Translation
Translate function translates English,
No
French, and Spanish word by word
Number of localizations
30
17
Identifies language and switches
Automatically identifies the language you
Can check all languages at once
dictionary
are typing and switches the spellchecking, autocorrect, and proofing tools
Localized versions come with
Yes: each localized version comes with a
Yes: localized versions come with
other languages
Proofing Pak with one to four other
proofing tools in several languages.
languages. Add language proofing tools
with the Proofing Tools CD (US$80).
Localized office Web sites
Yes
Some
Arabic
Yes
Yes
Portuguese
Yes
Yes
Brazilian Portuguese
Yes
Yes
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Chinese
Yes
Yes
Czech
Yes
No
Danish
Yes
No
Dutch
Yes
Yes
English
Yes
Yes
Finnish
Yes
No
French
Yes
Yes
German
Yes
Yes
Greek
Yes
No
Hebrew
Yes
No
Hungarian
Yes
Yes
Italian
Yes
Yes
Japanese
Yes
Yes
Korean
Yes
Yes
Polish
Yes
Yes
Romanian
Yes
No
Russian
Yes
Yes
Spanish
Yes
Yes
Swedish
Yes
Yes
Thai
Yes
No
Turkish
Yes
No
(Simplified and Traditional)
Interoperability and Standards
This table presents a comparison of standards and file formats supported by Oracle Open Office
3 and Microsoft Office 2007. Oracle Open Office 3 has powerful Microsoft Office document
filters to make reading and writing Microsoft Office files easy.
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TABLE 15: INTEROPERABILITY AND STANDARDS
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Built-in PDF export
No: requires plug-in
Yes
PDF import
No
Yes: Oracle Open Office Draw
Oracle Open Office 5.x
No
Yes
Oracle Open Office XML file
No
Yes
Yes: with Service Pack 2
Yes: default
• 97–2003
• Yes
• Yes
• 95
• Yes
• Yes
• 6.0
• Yes
• Yes
• WinWord 5
• Yes
• Yes
MS Word 2007 (*.docx)
Yes
Yes: import
MS Word 2003 XML
Yes
Yes
• 3.0–5.x
Yes
Yes
Rich Text File (*.rtf)
Yes
Yes
• 11–13
Yes
Yes
HTML (*.htm, *.html)
Yes
Yes
XHTML
Yes
Yes
Flat XML
Yes
Yes
Text ( *.txt, *.asc, *.ans)
Yes
Yes
T602 document
No
Yes
Hangul WP 97 (*.hwp)
No
Yes
StarWriter DOS
No
Yes
format
OpenDocument XML file format
WORD PROCESSING FILTERS
MS Word Windows(*.doc)
StarWriter
WordPerfect (*.wpd)
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SPREADSHEET FILTERS
MS Excel (*.xls)
• 97–2003
Yes
Yes
MS Excel 2007 (*xlsx)
Yes
Yes: import
MS Excel 2003 XML
Yes
Yes
• 1.0
• No
• No
• 3.0–5.x
• No
• No
XML
Yes
Yes
dBase
Yes
Yes
Text (*.csv)
Yes
Yes
SYLK
Yes
Yes
DIF
Yes
Yes
HTML
Yes
Yes
Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
Yes
Yes
Lotus 1-2-3
Yes
Yes
Quattro Pro 6.0
No
Yes
• 97–2003
Yes
Yes
MS PowerPoint 2007 (*.pptx)
Yes
Yes: import
• 3.0–5.x
Yes
Yes
Macromedia Flash export
No
Yes
CGM – Computer Graphics
No
Yes
Oracle Open Office Calc
PRESENTATION FILTERS
MS PowerPoint (*.ppt)
StarDraw
Metafile
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Graphic Support
Both Microsoft Office 2007 and Oracle Open Office support most of the standard graphics file
formats.
TABLE 16: GRAPHICS SUPPORT
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
Total
22
25
BMP – MS Windows
Yes
Yes
CDR – CorelDraw
Yes
No
CGM – Computer Graphics
Yes
Yes
DRW – Microgrfx Designer
Yes
No
DXF – AutoCAD
Yes
Yes
EMF – MS Windows Metafile
Yes
Yes
EMZ – Compressed Windows
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FPX – FlashPix Image File
Yes
No
GIF – Graphics Interchange
Yes
Yes
JPG – JPEG
Yes
Yes
MET – OS/2 Metafile
No
Yes
MIX – Picture It! format
Yes
No
PBM – Portable Bitmap
No
Yes
PCD – Photo CD
Yes
Yes
PCT – Mac Pict
Yes
Yes
PCX – ZSoft Paintbrush
Yes
Yes
PCZ – Compressed Mac PICT
Yes
No
Metafile
Enhanced Metafile
EPS – Encapsulated PostScript
software
Format
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PGM – Portable Graymap
No
Yes
PNG – Portable Network
Yes
Yes
PPM – Portable Pixel Map
No
Yes
PSD – Adobe Photoshop
No
Yes
RAS – Oracle Rasterfile
No
Yes
SBM
No
Yes
SGG
No
Yes
SVG
No
Yes
TGA – Truevision TARGA
Yes
Yes
TIF – Tag Image File
Yes
Yes
WMF – MS Windows Metafile
Yes
Yes
WMZ – Compressed Windows
Yes
No
WPG – WordPerfect Graphic
Yes
No
XBM – X-Consortium
No
Yes
XPM
No
Yes
Graphic
software
Metafile
System Requirements
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional installation on Microsoft Windows requires 410 MB of free
disk space. Also note the significant extra memory required to run each additional Microsoft
application. With Oracle Open Office, all modules run with only a slight increase in incremental
system resources for each additional module launched.
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TABLE 17: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
DESCRIPTION
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3
• IBM PC
• PC
• PC
• Sun SPARC
• Not SPARC
• Sun SPARC
• Mac
• PPC + x86
• x86
Processor
• Pentium: 500 MHz or higher
• Pentium CPU or higher UltraSPARC
Hardware architecture
II / III /
IV / IV+
Memory/RAM
• Windows XP SP 2, 2003 SP1, Vista:
256 MB
• 2000, XP, Vista: 256 MB
• Oracle Solaris SPARC: x86 256 MB
• Linux x86: 256 MB
• Mac OS X: 512 MB
Hard disk space
• Standard: 1.5 GB for installation
• 350 MB – 760 MB (multilanguage)
• Professional: 2.0 GB for installation
• Ultimate: 3.0 GB for installation
Video
Super VGA (1,024 x 768) or higher,
1,024 x 768 or higher-resolution graphic
256-plus colors
device with 256 colors
Other requirements
CD-ROM or internet connection
CD-ROM or internet connection
Operating systems supported
• Windows XP, 2003, Vista
• Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
• Oracle Solaris x86/SPARC
• Linux x86
• Mac OS X
• Mac OS X
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