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Product Information
In designing StarOffice 5.2 software, the StarOffice team focused on enhancing
core areas such as ease-of-use, performance, and seamless inter operability with
Microsoft Office 97/2000. Highlights of these enhancements include:
- Improved import and export filters: Communicate with users of
other popular office suites. New and improved import and export formats (StarOffice
Schedule) and document filters (StarOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, and
Base) guarantee a seamless exchange of information with Microsoft Office 97/2000.
- Extensive online help and written documentation: Here is where
you will find the answers to all of your usage questions.
- StarOffice Player and saving options for presentations: Now you
can deliver your presentations on the road or on the Web. The new, standalone
StarOffice Player enables you to show StarOffice Impress presentations anywhere,
anytime without installing the entire StarOffice suite. New export and saving
options make it easy to show your presentation over the Web or save it as a
compressed version for easy transport.
- Enhanced database functionality and user interface: An easier
way to create and manage a database. StarOffice Base 5.2 integrates the Adabas D
Database, providing an easier-to-use interface that enables you to import and export
HTML and RTF formats.
- Enhanced multilingual support: Removes international language
barriers by providing tools to check spelling, add hyphenation, and choose synonyms
in up to twenty languages simultaneously.
- Enhanced Open and Save As dialog boxes: Manage and navigate
your files and folders with ease. New features improve your file management options
and streamline data navigation.
- Hyperlink dialog box: Share information more effectively. The
new Hyperlink dialog box makes it easy to define and insert links to Web pages,
other Internet URLs, and documents on your local system or network server.
- Improved and extended layout and formatting options for text
documents: It's
a snap to create professionally designed documents with StarOffice Writer 5.2
software. It features new layout and formatting options for sections (including
multicolumn layouts complete with footnotes and endnotes), Auto Text entries, table alignments, and border distances.
- Index dialog box: Increase the usefulness of your long, complex
documents. StarOffice Writer 5.2 software features a new uniform dialog for indexes
and reference tables that simplifies generating a table of contents or indexing
terms, bibliographical references, illustrations, tables, and other objects.
- Enhanced font name list boxes: Select the font you want,
quickly and easily. The Font Name list box on the object tool bar now shows your most
recently used fonts at the top of the list. In addition, you can configure all list
boxes that show font names to display a WYSIWYG view of the installed
fonts.
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StarOffice 5.1 is available in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Yes, StarOffice 5.1 full media kits are available in English, French, German,
Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. The kits may be ordered at
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp.
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Books in Print site.
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Sun offers two types of support services:
- SunSpectrum[sm] Enterprise support: 100-plus users
- Home users and small businesses: fewer than 100 users
Enterprise Support Services currently offers StarOffice 5.2 software support
for enterprise customers (customer sites running more than 100 instances
of StarOffice 5.2 software) through 40 Solution Centers located around the
world. With the new SunSpectrum StarOffice 5.2 software-only service
offering, customers can take advantage of the following key services:
- Unlimited phone support with pricing that scales by the number of
users
- Ability to submit questions via phone or Web
- Access to the online knowledge database
- Business-day support that can be uplifted to 7x24
- Automatic push for software upgrades
- Latest patches
- Offered to customers using the Solaris Operating Environment,
Linux, Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT, and OS/2, with installations
of 100 or more users
StarOffice 5.2 software support for home users and small businesses
with fewer than 100 users:
In the U.S., Sun has developed an online program that gives
StarOffice 5.2 users the ability to submit questions directly to an expert.
There will be a charge per question. The
provider, Citrix, may be reached:
- Sun's StarOffice 5.2 Web site:
http://forum.java.sun.com/index.jspa for a search on FAQs
- Or, users may contact Citrix directly:
www.citrixonline.com
In addition, users may access Sun's self-help support sites, at
Sun Developer Network (SDN) site, free of charge. These sites
include an extensive online knowledge database, newsgroups, and technical
frequently asked questions (FAQs).
StarOffice 5.2 is more compatible with Microsoft Office than other office
suites on the market today.
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