Ubuntu installs the Evolution Personal Information Management and OpenOffice.org application suite. These office productivity applications provide all the basic tools you need to complete basic office tasks such as managing email, contacts and meetings, writing letters, creating presentations and performing complex calculations with spreadsheets. All office applications are available under -> .
Evolution is a complete Personal Information Manager (PIM) application. Evolution integrates an email, contact management and calendar interface into a single application. When started from the submenu the calendar application component is displayed. From this perspective it is easy to change between the other components. Evolution is also available from the submenu. When started from the submenu, Evolution starts in 'Email mode.'
All the OpenOffice.org components can be found under
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The word processing component of Open Office is called "Open Office Word Processor". This program has its own internal document format, but can also read and write Microsoft Word documents (.doc files) and Microsoft Word template documents (.dot files).
The spreadsheet component of Open Office is called "Open Office Spreadsheet,". This program has its own internal document format, but can also read and write Microsoft Excel documents (.xls, .xlw files) and Microsoft Excel template documents (.xlt files).
The presentation component of Open Office is called "Open Office Presentation," and is available under the "Applications" menu in the "Office" submenu. This program has its own internal format, but can also read and write Microsoft PowerPoint documents (.ppt, .pps files) and Microsoft PowerPoint template files (.pot files).