You just saved a bundle on your purchase of laptop, but it has only the basic operating system software and purchase the software to accomplish the task and have the productivity you are looking for is now going to cost you more then you just paid for your laptop. Well, the good news is that there are now a number of measures that you can use and many of them are free.
We all know that free is good, and there are some great alternatives to Microsoft Office on the market today, some offer additional functionality not provided by Microsoft as a PDF writer.
So where are you these free software programs, and everything what can do you with free software in any way. There are a number of sites on the internet today where you can go and find very good software packages that you can use free of charge and are available for download the Strait to your computer, you can be up and running in minutes.
An excellent solution you can check is Google Documents and spreadsheets and can be found by typing Google Documents and spreadsheets your browsers web search bar. It allows that you create too many documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. You will find Google online word processing and spreadsheet applications. One of the back of draw of this option is that you have to be connected to the internet when ever you want to use these applications. They are very friendly but and the learning curve is not complicated. This program allows to share and collaborate in real time, safely store and organize your work and control who can see your documents.
Zoho Writer is another treatment of text online free. This is a very good program and like Google, you will need to be online to use this product.
IBM Lotus Symphony Documents
IBM announced in September 2007 that their Documents of Lotus Symphony is available and free of charge and has a built in PDF writer. This free software can be downloaded on their Web site.
Lotus Symphony
"Voted software products of productivity of the Agency of the year 2008 by the readers of Datamation Magazine." In what can only be described as a dislocation, newcomer, Lotus Symphony, beat Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 ThinkFree Office and others nominated by the readers of Datamation Magazine. "You can download this free software on their Web site also.
Other free Office solutions that are there are:
ThinkFree Office
If you are working with Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, with ThinkFree Office 3 you will feel right at home. It feels and behaves just like Microsoft products, if you use it on Windows, Linux, or Macintosh. The link of download for ThinkFree Office is found on their website and it is too free.
Office Open from Sun Microsystem
Over the years and includes a very nice suite of applications of this software is free and it also has a built in PDF writer. The download for this great software package link can be found at (www.openoffice.org)
Thus, take account of the foregoing and save a bundle. These all applications are compatible with Microsoft applications as files can be saved in word and excellent format. Buying an expensive software package do you need to yourself to verify at least some of these products?
RR Smith
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