OOo4Kids: a children's OpenOffice.org

Based on the source code for openoffice.org, OOo4Kids is an office suite designed for children between 7 and 12. This suite is designed to accustom their users, in this case children, the use of office applications on your PC. In short, there is more than openoffice.org simplified for children to use it without problems, but with the intention of collaborating with the Project openoffice.org is licensed under GPL V3. No doubt that OpenOffice.org is the best free office suite. But when we speak of an educational environment for children is the best alternative OOo4Kids.

Although still in the middle stage of improvements, there is still no. Deb or. Rpm for download, the application runs smoothly, the eye is very nice, and it shows the use of fewer buttons and removing Java. A very interesting tool that teachers can begin to adopt computing and collaborate with the project.

With Ooo4 Kids can create text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings and more. OOo4Kids To use, first of all we have to download the. Tar.gz from their official website, unzip the following way

tar-zxf Ooo4Kids_0.5.1_Linux_Intel_X86-32_es_benb.tar.gz

Having done this, navigate to the folder where the executable:

cd es/ooo4Kids0.5.1/program

And from here we run the soffice file:

sh soffice

And ready, if OOo4Kids runs smoothly, can setup a link and run it from there without problems.

Importantly OOo4Kids is in its version 0.5.1, available in Spanish and many languages and for Windows and Mac, GNU / Linux course.

More

The official OOo4Kids Wiki.

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