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StarOffice™ 6.0 Office Suite
—A Sun™ ONE Software Offering
A full-featured, alternative office suite.
Key feature highlights
A Complete Solution
Supports XML-based file formats for com-
The StarOffice™ 6.0 office suite—a Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) software offering—
patibility and flexibility
provides a feature-rich, full-function office productivity suite at an excellent value while offering
Compatible with StarOffice 5.x files
Delivers improved Microsoft Office inter-
a full range of world-class service and support. It delivers exceptional cross-platform compatibility
with enhanced support for the Solaris™Operating Environment, Linux, and Microsoft Windows,
and is designed to suit all your business needs.
operability
Provides new online help
With StarOffice You Don’t Pay More, You Just Get More.
Why pay more for an office productivity suite when StarOffice 6.0 software delivers the function-
Supports native desktop environments
ality you need? With the StarOffice suite, you get tools for word processing, developing spread-
Provides creativity and productivity tools
sheets, making presentations, creating graphics, editing photos, publishing to the Web, and using
Offers extensive clip art and templates
data from relational databases. All StarOffice applications are integrated—they share the same
basic menu commands, toolbars, and function keys, so you can get your work done faster. With
Delivers easy integration with address
books (StarOffice, Microsoft Outlook, LDAP,
StarOffice software’s automatic IntuitiveUse technology, the precise tools you need for the task
at hand are just a mouse click away.
Netscape,™ Mozilla,™ and other file formats)
Supported Languages
StarOffice 6.0 Software:
– English
– German
Compatibility
Cost Savings
Open, modify, and save Microsoft Office files
StarOffice 6.0 gives you a feature-rich, full-
easily. StarOffice 6.0 software runs on the
function office productivity suite for hundreds
Solaris Operating Environment, Linux, and
of dollars less than other popular office suites.
Microsoft Windows.
– French
– Italian
– Spanish
– Swedish
StarSuite 6.0 software1:
– Simplified Chinese
Sun Services
Productivity
Sun Microsystems backs StarOffice software
This complete, full-featured office productivity
with a wide array of service options ranging
suite has everything you need to create elegant
from online support at sun.com/star/support
word documents, sophisticated drawings, pro-
to on-site service.
fessional presentations, dynamic spreadsheets,
StarOffice 6.0 software is now available in 10
HTML Web publishing, photo editing, and more.
languages, including four key Asian languages.
– Traditional Chinese
– Japanese
– Korean
1StarSuite software is the official name for the Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean language versions of StarOffice software
It’s designed to simplify the user experience and
Simplicity
improve ease of file exchange. Unicode techno-
StarOffice 6.0 applications are easy and famil-
logy brings the richness of features to the Asian
iar. Even complex jobs are simplified by moving
markets with Simplified and Traditional Chinese,
effortlessly from one application to another.
Japanese, and Korean language support.
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Seamless integration with the Microsoft Windows and
UNIX operating systems offers exceptional cross-platform
compatibility with enhanced support.
down menu from the toolbar that allows users
to choose to paste the copied or cut text or object in its original format or in a special format.
Undo/Redo has been improved to provide users
with a pull-down menu that lets them choose
which options to undo/redo. Smart URL attributes enable users to streamline the process
of changing a hyperlink in a document by automatically adapting when settings are changed.
There is also a wealth of new spreadsheet functions that make financial and mathematical
Free StarOffice Training
soft Office fonts. Opening Microsoft Office files
functions, such as determining the yield of a
A free Web-based course helps new StarOffice
in StarOffice brings over the same looking fonts
treasury bill, even easier to perform in Star-
software users get up to speed quickly. The Star-
and better retains the original formatting. For
Office and facilitate the exchange with Micro-
Office Overview Course outlines the basic steps
those users who want to save all their files in
soft Excel users.
of using and understanding StarOffice software.
Microsoft Office format, or even Ami Pro, HTML,
This course is available through the Sun Web
previous versions of StarOffice, or other file
Windows and UNIX® operating systems offers
Learning Center at sun.com/star/support.
formats, the new file format saving preferences
exceptional cross-platform compatibility with
allow them to set the default standard file
enhanced support for Solaris, Linux, and Mi-
Share Documents With Others
format. Whatever you want to save your text,
crosoft Windows software users. Some of the
Because the StarOffice suite is designed with
spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing docu-
highlights include quick launch for Microsoft
cross-platform capabilities, it gives you freedom
ments and formulas in, you can.
Windows users, improved font rendering and
of choice. Running on more platforms than any
Seamless integration with the Microsoft
printing solutions for UNIX systems, and im-
other office suite—the Solaris Operating Environ-
StarOffice Native Environment: Easy Access to
ment, Linux, and Microsoft Windows—StarOffice
Program and System Resources
software helps you share documents with other
The StarOffice native environment is the center
Design a Unique Personal Environment
applications, including Microsoft Office XP.
of everything you do in the StarOffice suite. In
It’s easy to create the ideal work environment.
Utilization of the nonproprietary, open, publicly
the StarOffice 6.0 release, the integrated desk-
Choose your own images, customize the Gallery,
available eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
top was removed to support the native desktop
and create and preview documents using the
as the default file format provides anyone, any-
environment, such as GNOME, CDE, and Micro-
new embedded creativity and productivity tools.
where, with the ability to build or use widely
soft Windows, while still providing overall sys-
All StarOffice modules share the same basic
available tools to open, edit, and save StarOffice
tem integration without forcing users to use
menu commands, toolbars, and function keys;
files. The new XML file formats are compressed,
the StarOffice desktop.
and StarOffice software’s IntuitiveUse techno-
proved integration for print to PDF support.
There is a new online help system with
logy automatically provides users with the tools
a new user interface and improved content,
they need for the task at hand. To make things
easier to exchange files with Microsoft Office
including how-to information, to make it easy
even easier, charting, clip art gallery, and gra-
users. With this latest version, StarOffice soft-
for people new to the StarOffice productivity
phics tools are now accessible from pull-down
ware has improved upon the best Microsoft
suite to get the task at hand done quickly. Im-
menus and toolbars from within each Star-
Office import and export filters available today.
proved user interface and usability—to enhance
Office module. Extensive new clip art and tem-
The StarOffice 6.0 release now supports edit-
readability and make the application more intui-
plates make it even easier to add fun and color
able Microsoft Office OLE objects, auto shapes,
tive to use—can be found with the new re-
to your documents or to start a new document
frames, charts, and form controls, and boasts
designed dialog boxes, tab pages, and menus.
from scratch. The revamped StarOffice Gallery
resulting in dramatically reduced file sizes.
Improved interoperability makes it even
improved PowerPoint filters.
Some commonly used features have been
contains a wide variety of professionally de-
improved to make tasks even easier, including
signed, useful clip art, shapes, and animations,
lease includes new TrueType fonts, metrically
the Paste Special, Undo/Redo, and Smart URL
organized by themes to help you find the images
equivalent to the most commonly used Micro-
functions. Paste Special now includes a drop-
you want—quickly and easily.
More importantly, the StarOffice 6.0 re-
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Other StarOffice Gallery features include
the ability to create and organize your own
themes, preview sounds and images, and im-
P3
or earlier, and insert them in your StarOffice
6.0 documents as OLE objects.
You can also integrate new data sources
Finally, the Microsoft Office 97/2000
import and export filters have been greatly
enhanced to facilitate the import and export
port images of your own for future use. The new
quickly and easily. StarOffice 6.0 software intro-
of charts from Microsoft Excel to StarOffice
Templates dialog box helps you streamline
duces a new dialog box for administering office-
Calc 6.0 and vice versa, including the content
your work; you can browse, preview, organize,
wide access to data sources. Using this dialog
of charts, the format of 2D and 3D charts, and
and even edit your templates before opening
box, you can build connections to existing data
the settings for x, y, and z axes and gridlines.
them. There’s also new support for open stan-
sources, specify StarOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel,
StarOffice Calc 6.0 includes a wealth of new
dards and programming interfaces such as
and other supported spreadsheet documents as
and enhanced functions that have been intro-
HTML, ODBC, Java™ technology, and XML. Star-
data sources, design and edit database tables,
duced to increase productivity and facilitate
Office 6.0 software delivers quality and perfor-
define new queries or edit existing ones, and
the exchange with Microsoft Excel users.
mance in an affordable and reliable alternative
create links to remote data sources, including
to today’s costly, proprietary office producti-
forms and text documents. When specifying a
StarOffice Impress: Make Your Point With
vity offerings.
data source, the program automatically enters
High-Impact Presentations
the corresponding protocol scheme in the Data
Ready-to-use templates and graphics help you
New and Improved Feature Highlights
Source URL text box (for example, sdbc:dbase:),
quickly achieve professional-looking presenta-
The StarOffice 6.0 release integrates with e-mail
facilitating the task of establishing a connec-
tions. One click changes your presentation to a
clients, such as Netscape Messenger and address
tion to a desired data source. The connected
Web-enabled HTML format for publishing.
book, to send documents as e-mails directly
data sources appear in the list box on the left
from StarOffice modules. It provides:
of the Data Source Administration dialog box.
and presentations with a great selection of ex-
• Better integration with your system e-mail
The new Data Source Administration dialog box
pressive graphics and graphic capabilities. Pro-
makes it a snap to manage your data sources.
fessionally designed templates help you quickly
client, address book, and data sources
Add visual punch and pizazz to documents
create great-looking documents. From
• Improved security to protect your sensitive
award certificates to lesson plans,
information
financial statements to complex
marketing plans, StarOffice helps
In the StarOffice 6.0 release, users will find
translate your ideas into reality.
new levels of encryption to password-protect
their text documents and spreadsheets. StarOffice software’s new XML file formats offers
Take Your Show On the Road
128-bit encryption to ensure that sensitive infor-
The new AutoLayout designs found
mation is highly secure.
only in the StarOffice Impress module create slides for Asian audiences.
StarOffice Impress 6.0 includes four
StarOffice Calc: A Powerful Spreadsheet
new AutoLayouts that support vertical
Program You Can Count On
Track, analyze, and summarize complex finan-
In addition, StarOffice 6.0 comes with a
text to complement the new StarOffice 6.0
cial and numeric data with ease. Bring static
newly designed dialog box for assigning num-
Asian language features. The enhanced EPS
facts and figures instantly to life using dynamic
ber formats to support the international for-
export feature allows you to export text as glyph
3D charts and diagrams. Create realistic “what
mats for date, time, and currencies. With more
outlines. This enables you to export text that
if” scenarios, so you can access, view, and share
functions than a standard spreadsheet program,
contains Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or other
information for making better decisions—fast.
StarOffice Calc enables you to create lists and
double-byte characters to EPS. The StarOffice
handle Euro conversions with ease and accu-
6.0 release comes with a new set of TrueType
charting functionality across all StarOffice mod-
racy. StarOffice 6.0 software introduces new
fonts, including fonts and font effects, that
ules. As a result, it is no longer necessary to save
date and time formats to support the Gregorian,
support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean charac-
StarOffice charts as individual files. However,
Japanese, Gengou, and Korean ROC calendars.
ter sets.
you can still load standalone charts that were
In addition, it also comes with a detailed list
created with the StarOffice Chart 5.2 module
of locales and their currencies.
StarOffice 6.0 software provides integrated
StarOffice 6.0 software supports the Unicode character standard, which represents the
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principal written languages of the world using
Importing and Exporting to Other Formats
capabilities and comes with a variety of tem-
a single character set. You can access the com-
Of the 136 formats in the Formats list in the
plates ready for you to use.
plete Unicode character set by selecting Special
Star-Office File > Open window, a great many
• You can leverage StarOffice Impress software’s
Character from the Insert menu. This Unicode
of them are for graphics. Whether you just
tab feature to create multiple drawings in
support enables you to insert any combination
want to open a scanned GIF file, a Photoshop
one document. If you have several versions
of letters and diacritical marks into your docu-
graphic, or an AutoCAD drawing, StarOffice
of the same drawing, or components that
ments, as well as use special characters from
Draw can open them all, and more. And when
work together, there’s no need to make sep-
nonwestern languages.
you want to save your StarOffice Draw files for
arate files. Just click on the slide bar and
easy transfer to another program,
you’ve got a new blank slide to draw on.
you’ve got 17 choices—PNG, meta-
• Squares and circles, ovals, rounded rectan-
files, SVG, and of course popular
gles, and everything in between are easy to
options like GIF and JPG.
draw—just click on the shape you want in
Within a drawing, there can be
many different types of graphics:
the toolbar.
• Whether it’s straight lines, arrows, or pre-
standard polygons; meta-files and
cisely drawn and edited Bezier curves, Star-
bitmaps; lines, curves, and contours;
Office Draw has your tool and the setup
text; and two types of 3D objects. With
features to let you get exactly what you want.
very few exceptions, you can convert
Use or customize existing arrowheads, or
one to the other just by right-clicking
create your own shape; the arrowhead can
and choosing what to convert to. If
be your company’s logo or the classic trian-
StarOffice Draw: Illustrate With Your
you want to use an effect on a polygon that
gle, it’s up to you. Bezier curve tools give
Application Tools
only works on raster (pixel graphics like scanned
you an exceptional amount of control, both
Add diagrams and graphics to StarOffice docu-
photos), just convert it to a metafile or bitmap
before and after you’ve drawn the line or
ments with a wide variety of drawing tools
(two types of rasters). Need the object as a
curved shape. Add points afterward and
and templates. A single click lets you add,
polygon again? Just convert it right back. In
adjust the curve, sharpness, or location to
create, and edit photorealistic 3D images, as
the world of StarOffice Draw, objects can be
well as control the appearance of shading and
just about anything you want them to be.
get exactly the effect you want.
• StarOffice Draw has the tools and precision
to enable you to create engineering-class
other effects.
Basic Graphics Creation and Development
drawings. Two types of line tools are included
since office suites don’t typically include one.
StarOffice Draw includes many sophisticated
that you don’t get with just any drawing
But if you’re going to create documents with
features, but still makes it easy to quickly create
program: connectors and dimension lines.
StarOffice Draw is a bonus application,
impact, and diagrams that effectively illustrate
Connectors are similar to what you
the topic, you can’t go without one. StarOffice
might have seen in Visio; a smart
Draw is a full-featured graphics package, and
connector at the end of each line lets
has capabilities for vector graphics as well as
you easily attach it to objects in the
raster graphics.
drawing, and the line can curve and
bend around each object involved.
The main types of graphics features in
StarOffice Draw include:
Dimension lines are for use in scale
• Importing and exporting to other formats
drawings like house plans. Draw a line
• Basic graphics creation and development
with the dimension line tool and text
• Text
in the middle automatically displays
• Color
the line’s measurement. Position it
• 3D objects
against what you want to indicate
• Extra object effects
a file and get started. Just create a new drawing
the size of, like the height of a wall or the
• Positioning and sizing objects
from scratch, or from a template—StarOffice
width of a door, to show the dimensions of
Draw has all of the usual StarOffice template
the object. Team up the dimension lines
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with the scale feature, which lets you choose
StarOffice Base: Now Important Data Is Always
are created, assembled, and deployed, the Sun
scales like 1:2 or 1:16, and you can display
at Your Fingertips
ONE platform can enhance productivity, speed
the exact measurements of the finished
Drag and drop your database records into any
time to market, and increase business oppor-
object you’re illustrating.
StarOffice document for easier decision making.
tunities for enterprises worldwide.
Sort, search for, and filter tables, queries, forms,
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StarOffice Writer: The Simple Way to Create
or reports. Powerful AutoPilots and AutoFilter
Professional Documents
functions quickly guide you through complex
Quickly compose letters, memos, brochures,
tasks, so that even mass e-mails, faxes, and
For More Information
and more with easy-to-use templates. Create
mailings are kept updated and simple.
To learn more about the StarOffice productivity
and post rich Web pages without learning
suite, please visit our Web site at
HTML. Convert Microsoft Office documents
sun.com/staroffice.
with just a few clicks. Perform calculations in
StarOffice Writer tables, and create charts to
illustrate the table data. Apply style changes
globally. Automatic spelling/corrections
and formatting checks ensure your work is
letter perfect.
With StarOffice Writer you can set the graphic attributes (such as graphics mode, RGB,
contrast, and so on) of selected graphics from
within text, spreadsheet, drawing, and presentation documents. Add password protection to
StarOffice Base provides the power and
the Record feature when two or more people
flexibility to manage your data sources with
collaborate on one document. Assign different
ease. You can connect, administer, and access
passwords to individual sections instead of just
a wide range of data sources (including dBase
one like in previous versions.
and SQL) directly from StarOffice. The new
Database Import AutoPilot lets you
import all your previous databases
created in versions of StarOffice 5.2
or earlier and stores your existing
queries, forms, and reports in the
DataAccess.xml configuration file.
Now, form documents can be stored
as regular documents.
Sun ONE
The Sun Open Net Environment (Sun
ONE), Sun’s vision, architecture, plat-
The relief character attribute adds 3D effect
form, and expertise for delivering Services on
to selected text elements. Streamline the pro-
Demand today and in the future. Based on open
cess of changing a hyperlink in a document.
standards such as Java and XML technology,
For example, if you change an e-mail address
Sun ONE provides a highly scalable and robust
or a URL in your document, the program
framework for building and deploying a variety
changes the corresponding mail-to address or
of Services on Demand—from traditional Web-
the URL target.
based applications to future context-aware Web
services. By simplifying the way Web services
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StarOffice 6.0 Office Suite System Requirements
Solaris Operating Environment
SPARC® Platform Edition
OS
Solaris 8 or 7 Operating
Environment;
Solaris 8 OE is recommended
Memory
128 MB
Disk Space
250 MB
Display
X Server with 800x600 or higher
resolution with 256 colors
Linux
OS
Intel Platform Edition
OS
Solaris 8 or 7 Operating
Environment
CPU
Pentium-compatible PC
Memory
64 MB
Disk Space
250 MB
Display
X Server with 800x600 or higher
resolution
Microsoft Windows
OS
CPU
Memory
Disk Space
Display
CPU
Memory
Disk Space
Display
Linux Kernel version 2.2.13
or higher
glibc2 version 2.1.2 or higher
Pentium-compatible PC
64 MB
250 MB
X Server with 800x600 or higher
resolution with 256 colors
Standards
Java and JavaScript™ technologies
OLE, DDE
ODBC, SQL, Active Data Objects (ADO)
POP3, IMAP4, VIM, NNTP, SMTP
XML and iCAL import/export calendar support
HTML and RTF
LDAP, HTTP, FTP
Year 2000 compliant
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me,
NT, 2000, XP
Pentium-compatible PC
64 MB
250 MB
800x600 or higher resolution
with 256 colors
Filters
Microsoft Word 5.0, 6.0, 95, 97, 2000, Me, NT, XP
Excel 4.0, 5.0, 95, 97, 2000
PowerPoint 97, 2000
WordPerfect 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1
WordPerfect for Windows2 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
Ami Pro2 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 3.1
2 Not supported for Solaris and Linux environments on the Intel
Architecture Platform.
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