A aplicação de produtividade por omissão é o OpenOffice.org 2. Este é o segundo grande lançamento da popular plataforma de trabalho de produtividade que inclui o Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress e Math. Esta plataforma de trabalho é o equivalente, código-fonte aberto, à plataforma de trabalho Microsoft Office, e cada aplicação corresponde a um produto similar nessa linha. O Calc é muito parecido ao Exel, o Writer equivale ao Word, o Impress ao PowerPoint, e as funções Base assemelham-se ao Access. o OpenOffice suporta todos os ficheiros sem qualquer problema excepto os do Microsoft Access.
While all of these applications are installed by default, Kubuntu has chosen to rename the titles that are listed in the Application Launcher to better reflect how these applications are used and in some cases have removed them from the Application Launcher entirely. For more details about the OpenOffice.org suite, visit OpenOffice.org homepage.
OpenOffice.org Impress, or Presentation, provides the capability to create slide presentations. Most PowerPoint files may be opened and edited in Impress. OpenOffice.org Impress can be launched by going to → → .
OpenOffice.org Calc, Spreadsheets, is a fully featured spreadsheet program. The module supports multiple spreadsheets, built-in functions and can read most Microsoft Excel documents. OpenOffice.org Calc can be launched by going to → → .
Open Office Writer, or Word Processor, is a fully featured word processor that can create simple or complex documents. Writer can open most Microsoft Word documents and can save in the .doc format. OpenOffice.org Writer can be launched by going to → → .
OpenOffice.org Draw provides complex functionality to allow the creation of drawings, diagrams, charts, and other business presentations. The program is object oriented and allows for layering of various panes of work. OpenOffice.org Draw can be launched from within any other OpenOffice application or by going to → →
O OpenOffice.org Math permite ao utilizador a criar e juntar documentos orientados a matemática. Existem funções especiais que permitem a criação de fórmulas matemáticas e nomenclaturas de tabela que não são fácilmente conseguidas no Writer padrão. O OpenOffice.org Math pode ser iniciado a parir de qualquer outra aplicação OpenOffice ou pressionando Alt+F2 e digitando oomath
e pressionando o botão .