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| Office Suites No one application can meet all your office needs. These two multiprogram suites offer functionality and ion that you won't find in a of individual programs. |
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| 602Pro PC Suite
The 602Pro PC Suite from Software6O2 offers a collection of three applications that will meet the needs of many users looking for office functionality. The suite's word processor, 602Text, offers compatibility many other word processors including Microsoft Word, as well as the ability to create templates, forms, and simple HTML documents. The spreadsheet application, 602Tab, is compatible with Excel, and it features over 150 available functions. Finally, the graphics editor, 602Photo, lets users edit images directly from their digital camera or scanner. 602Photo also offers support for over 15 different graphic formats. Those with an aversion to application bloat will love the 602Pro PC Suite's 15MB download size, and the suite is shareware. If you want to enable the spell checker and remove the nag screens, you can download a trial version of the product by simply providing some personal information at the Software 602 Web site. http://www.software602.com
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StarOffice
Even though it takes a lot of space on your PC and quite a bit out of your wallet, Microsoft Office has dominated the world of office suites for a long time. But Sun Microsystems has recently caught consumers' eyes with its free StarOffice suite of applications. This suite combines many programs that can handle word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail and news, scheduling, graphics, and database management. You can use StarOffice to browse for information on the Internet and drop data you find into documents. You can also configure the StarOffice Desktop to create and organize information from a single application environment and add and organize clip art and other files with the StarOffice Gallery. The suite even comes with a scanner interface. The latest version of StarOffice is available for a wide variety of platforms and languages, and it features built-in support for many file formats and filters. You can download a copy of this suite for $75 US from such sources as the Sun Microsystems Web site. http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html |