When you think about office suites, two names come to mind: Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. There is a good reason for that – they are the two powerhouses in the field. Of course there are alternatives. For Windows there is Softmaker Office and Lotus Symphony. For the Mac there is iWork. For Linux there is [...]

Tags: Calc, excel, MS Office, office, office suite, powerpoint, presents, word, writer
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, software

Do you use Google for your collaboration tools? Gmail? Google Documents? Contacts? Although the Google suite is a very nice suite of tools that has grown exponentially in popularity, there is something to be said about keeping your collaboration tools in-house. There are plenty of tools that will allow you to set up such a [...]

Tags: collaboration, google documents, mobile office, office suite, online office
Categories: Linux, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development, software

Open Office 3.1 final has been released today. The Open Source alternative to Microsoft Office can be downloaded from download portals like Betanews but not directly from the Open Office homepage as it has not been updated yet to reflect the release of the new version. The new version of Open Office is packed with [...]

Tags: linux software, mac software, microsoft-office, office alternative, office suite, open office 3.1, Open Source, open-office, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

I like my tools to be efficient. Part of efficiency is opening quickly, not sucking up all of my systems’ resources, and saving in various formats. When considering office needs one of the first tools that pops into my mind is word processing. Naturally the masses will first turn to either MS Office or OpenOffice. [...]

Tags: abiword, Enlightenment, GNOME, Linux, office suite, Windows, word processing
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

The final release of Open Office 3 has already been distributed to various mirror sites to make sure the official announcement on Monday 13 will not see any complications. Users who are eager to try out the final release can head over to the list of Open Office mirror sites and pick one near their [...]

Tags: office, office suite, open office 3, Open Source, open-office, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

The Microsoft Office Migration Planning Manager has been designed to aid individuals, administrators and companies to migrate from an earlier version of Microsoft Office to the latest version Microsoft Office 2007. It provides a full set of command line tools to analyze, create and migrate documents that have been created in previous versions of Microsoft [...]

Tags: microsoft-office, office 2003, office 2007, office documents, office migration, office suite
Categories: Windows, software