Easy Office 7.0 packs added applications and utilities into one freewarepackage than you'll find in any high priced suite. A 96MB installer expands into a word processor, spreadsheet, calculator, picture editor, PDF editor, presentation program, and e-mail client.Review of Easy Office 7.0:
Unfortunately, abundance isn't quality. EasyOffice is acutely a plan in progress. Its applications accomplish abounding basal and mid-level tasks just as able-bodied as the cher competition, but are under powered compared with changeless alternatives such as 602 PCSuite and OpenOffice.org. The suite's abounding allegorical air headed are too bombastic to be helpful. And at times the freeware adaptation seems afflicted with advertisements for the $44 Easy Office Premium 7.0 suite, which adds dozens of added programs alignment from a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) applicant to a Web page editor and an encryption utility. Whenever you alpha one of the applications in the freeware suite, you accept to bang on a Continue button to get accomplished the advertisement for the paid suite.
The EasyWord chat processor had no agitation with the circuitous formatting of our sample Microsoft Chat files, but it removed all footnotes and endnotes after warning. EasyWord runs in either of two modes: Easy or Advanced. The Easy approach has a bound affection set and icons that you can expand; they're acutely labeled, but they're aswell awning hogs.
The word processor's Advanced mode, like abundant of the blow of the suite, displays the a lot of overpacked set of air headed we've apparent in any software. A lot of chat processors accept a Book menu; Easy Word has two, labeled File1 and File2. Each of those airheaded contains added than 20 items, including PDF and HTML consign and items that abundance and seek backup, grandfather, and great-grandfather versions of your files—features you will not acquisition in better-known suites. Some card items accept adjustment keys that let you admission them by accounting an accent letter; others are attainable alone if you aught in on them with the arrow keys or the mouse. Different card items advance to the Easy Contact Manager and "Old adaptation of Easy Contact Manager." But beat on the grammar-checking account causes an "unsupported feature" message to pop-up.Don't be bamboozled by the low adaptation number. This open-source apartment has been evolving for a decade, partly through the plan of volunteers and partly with abutment from Sun Microsystems. Versions of OpenOffice run on every above platform, so it's an ideal best if you charge seamless book transfers a part of Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Macintosh systems. Some of the elements crave Java. A added able Adaptation 2.0 is in backward accessible beta, due for final absolution in 2005.
The suite's interface has a sparse, gray, black style—at atomic it's not distracting—but below the apparent is a well-oiled machine. The chat processor, Writer, handled our intricate Microsoft Chat abstracts as calmly as if it had created them. The Calc spreadsheet was unfazed by our circuitous Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, although it did not affectation the abstracts in the alien charts—it showed alone the axes and background. Impress, the presentation editor, opened Microsoft Office presentations, complete with adorned accelerate transitions. The chat processor and spreadsheet let accustomed users almanac macros, and the absolute apartment supports a able programming accent agnate to Office's Visual Basic for Applications.
The EasyPresentation software lives up to its name by accouterment wizards for creating slides, recording your articulation to use in a complete clip, applying activated transitions, and inserting airy clip-art animation images. The arranged airheaded cover an advantage to save the presentation complete with Microsoft's chargeless PowerPoint viewer, so users with no presentation software can appearance it. PDF and HTML consign aren't accessible from the EasyPresentation program.
The suite's interface has a sparse, gray, black style—at atomic it's not distracting—but below the apparent is a well-oiled machine. The chat processor, Writer, handled our intricate Microsoft Chat abstracts as calmly as if it had created them. The Calc spreadsheet was unfazed by our circuitous Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, although it did not affectation the abstracts in the alien charts—it showed alone the axes and background. Impress, the presentation editor, opened Microsoft Office presentations, complete with adorned accelerate transitions. The chat processor and spreadsheet let accustomed users almanac macros, and the absolute apartment supports a able programming accent agnate to Office's Visual Basic for Applications.
Creations in Power-bullet can aswell be adored as HTML or exported to an EXE book for a presentation that functions in an auto-advance mode. If you save to the Web, you can as well appearance and adapt the antecedent code.
Power bullet Presenter's interface has some notable niceties, such as a astrologer that ancestor up to advice you actualize activated bulleted lists. Its interface and apparatus set aren't absolutely as affluent as some of those in fee-based presentation articles (like Liquid Media, which until afresh was chargeless for claimed use), but it's a simple, flexible, and chargeless way to accumulate presentations.
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