Star Office

In 2005 the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) signed a master distribution agreement with Sun Microsystems to give more than 4,000 Irish schools free access to Sun's StarOffice7 software. This agreement now extends to StarOffice 8.
The licensing arrangement will allow schools that wish to use the Sun software to obtain a free master copy of the software, which can be duplicated as required, by each school. This provision is covered under the terms of the licensing agreement.

StarOffice 8 is a full software office suite offering:
            - word processing,
            - spreadsheet,
            - presentation,
            - drawing,
            - and database capabilities.

To support schools using the StarOffice 8 Office Suite Sun have developed online training resources. Tutorial for Kids and StarOffice 8 Office Suite Guides enable novice and intermediate users make effective use of the features in StarOffice 8 including: Writer, Draw, Calc and Impress. These guides offer extensive hands-on activities as well as tips for using the software effectively.

Download a free educational copy of StarOffice 8.

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