LibreOffice 3.5入門/LibreOffice簡介

LibreOffice 是什麼?

LibreOffice是一個可免費獲取的，全功能的辦公生產力套件。LibreOffice的原生文件格式是ODF（Open Document Format，開放文檔格式），一個被世界各地的政府機構所採納的開放標準格式，用於文檔發布、交換。LibreOffice也能打開和保存很多其他文檔格式，包括Microsoft Office格式。

LibreOffice由以下組件組成：

Writer (字處理)

Writer是一個功能豐富的工具，可用來創建信件，書籍，報告，新聞通訊，小冊子和其他文檔。你可以在Writer文檔中插入圖形和其他LibreOffice組件創建的對象。Writer能夠導出為HTML，XHTML，XML，PDF，和Microsoft Word文檔(*.doc，*.docx)等格式。它還連結到你的郵件客戶端，使你能直接通過郵件發送文檔。

Calc (電子表格)

Calc具有高端電子表格軟體應該具備的功能特性：高級分析，圖表，決策。Calc包含超過300個函數，用於金融，統計，數學運算等諸多領域。「腳本管理器」提供了「what if」分析。Calc能產生2D和3D圖表，這些圖表可以被集成到其他LibreOffice文檔中。你也可以用Calc打開、編輯Microsoft Excel文檔，保存為Excel格式(*.xls，*.xlsx)。Calc能夠將電子表格導出為PDF，HTML等格式。

Impress (演示)

Impress provides all the common multimedia presentation tools, such as special effects, animation, and drawing tools. It is integrated with the advanced graphics capabilities of LibreOffice’s Draw and Math components. Slide shows can be further enhanced with Fontwork’s special effects text, as well as sound and video clips. Impress is compatible with Microsoft’s PowerPoint file format and can also save your work in numerous graphics formats, including Macromedia Flash (SWF).

Draw (向量圖形)

Draw is a vector drawing tool that can produce everything from simple diagrams or flowcharts to 3-D artwork. Its Smart Connectors feature allows you to define your own connection points. You can use Draw to create drawings for use in any of LibreOffice’s other components, and you can create your own clip art and add it to the Gallery. Draw can import graphics from many common formats and save them in over 20 formats, including PNG, HTML, PDF, and Flash.

Base (資料庫)

Base provides tools for day-to-day database work within a simple interface. It can create and edit forms, reports, queries, tables, views, and relations, so that managing a relational database is much the same as in other popular database applications. Base provides many new features, such as the ability to analyze and edit relationships from a diagram view. Base incorporates HSQLDB as its default relational database engine. It can also use dBASE, Microsoft Access, MySQL, or Oracle, or any ODBC-compliant or JDBC-compliant database. Base also provides support for a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.

Math (公式編輯)

Math is LibreOffice’s formula or equation editor. You can use it to create complex equations that include symbols or characters not available in standard font sets. While it is most commonly used to create formulas in other documents, such as Writer and Impress files, Math can also work as a standalone tool. You can save formulas in the standard Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) format for inclusion in web pages and other documents not created by LibreOffice.