Budget 2006 is available for download in a number of formats:

OpenDoc Format

OpenDocument 1.0 - Text (.odt); Spreadsheet (.ods)

OpenDocument or "OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications" is a standardized XML-based file format specification suitable for office applications. It is supported by OpenOffice.org 2.0, StarOffice 8 and KOffice. A number of other office applications including IBM WorkPlace, are adding support for this format. For more information, see the OASIS website.

 

Microsoft

Microsoft Office - Word (.doc); Excel (.xls)

For information about Microsoft Word and Excel see the Microsoft Office website. If you do not have Microsoft Word or Excel, you can download a free viewer for Word here and for Excel here, which support current and previous versions of these products.

Adobe pdf

Portable Document (.pdf)

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems. Adobe provides a free PDF reader here.

OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org 1.0 - Writer (.sxw); Calc (.sxc)

OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite. In version 1.0 the default format for text documents (Writer) is .sxw and for spreadsheet documents (Calc) is .sxc. With OpenOffice.org 2.0 the default format is the OpenDocument format for text documents (.odt) and spreadsheets (.ods). See above.

OpenOffice

ZIP files

A ZIP file usually consists of one or more compressed files. This year's budget can be downloaded in all formats as one ZIP file or the all the documents within each format can be downloaded as a ZIP file. A number of ZIP file software tools are available including PKZIP, WinZip, and 7-Zip.

 



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