Cheaper Alternative To Microsoft Office by Mark Hocking
We all know software can get extremely expensive… and I’m not talking about graphics and design software suites from Adobe and Macromedia. I’m talking about the basics such as email, word processing and presentation software. Most of us are aware of the famous Microsoft Office Suite—it’s a great... But what many PC users don’t realize is that Microsoft Office is not the only Office suite out there, in fact there are dozens of cheaper alternatives to Microsoft Office that match it in terms of features, usability and compatibility.

A Free Microsoft Office? by John McILwraith
If your budget is limited and you need a full features Office suite, we know of one that has got everything you might conceivably need. The deeper question, is whether anyone will ever need all of these features. It's nice to know that a FREE Office Suite of applications has probably more to it... When the big corporate giants start leaving Microsoft Office for an Open Source, Microsoft Office Clone you have got to know that this Office Suite is no Joke. ... It is hard for one to not have Microsoft office when at the time of this writing 90% of word possessing is done on Microsoft Office...

Word Processing Office Suite by John McILwraith
You need to have a word processor period. Each and every computer user needs one. It is like sugar in the pantry, you just have to have it on hand. At least I have never in my over Ten years in the I.T. field met some one that did not need a word processor at one time or another. ... For some there is no choice but to have an Office Suite such as Microsoft Office or Open Office. ... But Microsoft Office and or Microsoft Office Professional does not come with Windows. ... Hands down Microsoft Office is the most widely used office suite of applications used in the world.

Create A Flash Presentation For Free With Open Office by Steve Howson
The intentions of this short tutorial are not to teach you how to use Open Office, but rather to show you a quick and dirty way to create presentations and tutorials that can be exported as a Macromedai Flash file. What is Open Office? It is a free, open source, cross platform office suite that... Using Open Office Presentation - Basically, if you've ever used Microsoft Powerpoint, you've pretty much used Presentation. ... This gives you the chance to put Flash content on your site without having to play for the Macromedia Suite.

Office 2007 Will Have a Steep Learning Curve by Mike Wendland
Get ready for Office 2007, the most sweeping update to Microsoft’s popular suite of productivity applications. An extensive re-education awaits those who will upgrade to the new Office 2007. It’s truly a redesign. The menu bar and navigation buttons for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, for example,... Office 2007 is the biggest change Microsoft has ever made to the interconnected suite of software tools so many of us depend upon. ... There’s something else that’s very different: Microsoft uses a different format to save files with Office 2007 that, without a special viewer that will have to be...

Free Software is No Myth! Where to Go When You Can't Afford Premium Software Prices by Jon Arking
Ok, so you went out and bought a big, fancy computer with all the fixins. You've got memory, DVD burners, wireless adapters, and enough hard drive space to trump the library of Congress, but is that all you need? As most people inevitably realize...NO WAY! ... Microsoft Office for example, the world's leading office and productivity software suite, ranges in price from $350 - $500. ... GIMP Photo Productivity Suite - Photo editing suite replacement for Adobe Photoshop Firefox Web Browser - Web browser replacement for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Free Alternative To Microsoft Office by Jim Edwards
Anyone who ever priced the Microsoft Office Suite knows it represents a significant investment. A quick check of the CompUSA.com website shows Microsoft Office Standard costs $399 and Microsoft Office Professional will set you back $449. Now, this doesn't discount the value of the software. ... OpenOffice.org offers a suite of office software applications free to download for anyone with a computer, including PC's operating with Windows or Linux. ... However, with the cost for such functionality at a premium, it comes as no surprise that a viable alternative emerged to challenge...

Microsoft Could Buy Mindjet by Douglas Woods
We all know who Microsoft are and they need no introduction, they are, for the context of this article, the owners and developers of Microsoft Office. Not all of us, though, may have heard of Mindjet. They are a company who have developed a leading software product called Mind Manager. ... By buying Mindjet, Microsoft could take this development a lot further and make Mind Manager an integral part of the Office suite of applications with full dynamic linking. ... So it can be seen that by including Mind Manager into their Office suite, Microsoft could benefit greatly from any purchase of...

Three Alternatives To Microsoft Word by Matthew Penn
Somebody called me crazy the other day for not having Microsoft Office, specifically, Microsoft Word, on my PC. Maybe I am. Or maybe not! On one hand, it seems as if almost every small business process today involves the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). ... OpenOffice is a complete office suite that offers virutally the same feature sets as the Microsoft Suite. ... OpenOffice Suite ( http://www.openoffice.org ) I started using OpenOffice about three years ago when the laptop that my previous employer purchased only came with a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office.

Scrap Booking Online: Word Perfect or Corel Graphics Suite? by Kristina Chu
Scrapbooks are very popular these days. I think that almost everyone wanted to capture family histories and stories in any which way they can. And with the onset of digital technology, scrap booking has even extended to newsletters and journals with photos and illustrations online and in the email. ... CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 For graphically-rich family history newsletter or time capsule, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 would be the ideal software as it is the easiest graphics suite available in the market today.