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* Open Office (/Recommended/)
** About Open Office

OpenOffice.org is an open-source application suite whose main
components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations,
graphics, and databases. It is available for a number of different
computer operating systems. It supports the ISO/IEC standard
OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file
format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others.

** Where Open Office can be used
   - Documentation
   - Report writing
   - Presentations
   - Data collection and analysis
   - Desktop publishing


** Learning Resources

   - http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
   - http://support.openoffice.org/
   - http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/ 

** Support
   - Oracle
   - http://support.openoffice.org/

     
** Where Open Office is used
   - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay


* Libre Office (/Recommended/)

** About Libre Office

LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document
Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org, that is compatible with other
major office suites and available on a variety of platforms. Its
developers' goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with
ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements.It is
the default office suite in Ubuntu, and will be in the next versions
of Fedora.

** Where LibreOffice can be used:
    - Documentation
    - Report writing
    - Data collection and analysis
    - Presentations
    - Desktop publishing

** Learning Resources
    - http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
     

** Support
    - http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/

** Where Open Office is used
   - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

     
* LaTeX
** About LaTeX

LaTeX is a powerful typesetting system, used for producing scientific
and mathematical documents of high typographic quality. Unlike WYSIWYG
tools such as Microsoft Word, it uses plain text files that contain
formatting commands. The typesetting system offers programmable
desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating
most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including
numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout and
bibliographies.

** List of Courses/Subjects/Areas where LaTeX can be used

    - Documentation
    - Report writing
    - Writing publishing-quality books and papers
    - Presentations
    - Desktop publishing

** Learning Resources for LaTeX

   - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
   - http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
   - http://www.latex-project.org/guides/usrguide.pdf
   - http://spoken-tutorial.org/Study_Plans_LaTeX