KOffice Definition - Printable Version

KOffice (pronounced "K-office") is an integrated office suite for the K Desktop Environment (KDE), a desktop interface for Unix systems. KOffice is the most notable of all KDE applications, since it singlehandedly provides most of the basic productivity features needed by KDE users. Like KDE, both the KOffice source code and the office suite itself are available as free downloads.

KOffice includes several different applications, including productivity, creativity, management, and supporting programs. The applications included with KOffice are listed below.

Productivity

KWord - a frame-based word processor
KSpread - a spreadsheet program
KPresenter - a presentation creation program
Kexi - a database program

Creativity

Krita - a raster graphic editing program that supports layers
Karbon14 - a vector graphics drawing application
Kivio - a flowcharting program

Management

KPlato - a project management and planning program

Supporting Programs

KFormula - a mathematical formula editor
KChart - a graphing and charting program
Kugar - a business report generating application

More information about KOffice is available at the KOffice Homepage.

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Updated: December 29, 2008

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