In addition to being bundled with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition is also available for Microsoft Windows. By deploying OpenOffice.org Novell Edition for Linux or Windows, customers can lower costs relative to Microsoft Office, while continuing to interoperate with Microsoft Office file formats and maximize productivity.

With a close feature-for-feature match with Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition provides the majority of capabilities for creating, processing, reviewing, and revising documents required on a daily basis. The user interface requires little retraining for current Windows and Microsoft Office users while file-import and file-export tools ensure that users never have to worry about compatibility when collaborating with Microsoft Office users.

Integration with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

OpenOffice.org Novell Edition features menus and tool bars for maximum "look and feel" consistency with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, including support for desktop appearance and theme changes. These features provide users with a consistent interface across their Linux desktops, which enhances overall usability and helps to minimize enterprise training and support requirements.

Compatibility with Microsoft Office File Formats

OpenOffice.org Novell Edition supports the import and export of established Microsoft Office file formats, even taking advantage of geometrically compatible fonts to match document length. In addition, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition ensures compatibility between the Open Document Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML), Microsoft's document format for Microsoft Office 2007. Transparent document sharing makes OpenOffice.org Novell Edition the best choice for customers who are deploying Linux desktops in a mixed Linux / Windows environment.

Support for Key Microsoft Office Features

OpenOffice.org Novell Edition includes a number of key enhancements for improved Microsoft Office file sharing including full conversion of embedded objects and compatibility with Microsoft Excel functions. In addition, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition supports Microsoft Excel VBA macros and pivot tables, importing of scalable vector graphics, digital signatures and file encryption, audio and video playback in files, and much more, thus providing users with a first-class office productivity experience.

Enhanced Font Fidelity

For OpenOffice.org Novell Edition, Novell licenses fonts from AGFA that contain the same or similar names to those available in Microsoft Office and which are geometrically similar to those used by Microsoft. This allows OpenOffice.org Novell Edition to match fonts when opening documents originally composed in Microsoft Office and very closely match pagination and page formatting.

Integration with Novell Evolution®

On SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition is tightly integrated with Novell Evolution, the leading Linux e-mail and collaboration suite, allowing users to send documents as e-mail and to perform mail merges using the Novell Evolution address book as a data source.

Ability to Export to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)

OpenOffice.org Novell Edition easily exports documents to Adobe portable document format (PDF) with no additional software required.