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Office software you can buy:
Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft has been an industry leader in office software for many years offering a large number of powerful features in an easy to use format. Which?, the independent consumer organisation, says it is 'difficult to recommend any other paid for software in the face of this worthy best buy.'.
The starting package, Home and Student 2010, offers a minimum of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote. Home and Business 2010 also includes Outlook and Professional 2010 adds Access, a database manager, and Publisher, which is "desktop publishing" software.
This software is a great office all-rounder, letting you create documents, spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations and organise your notes, ideas and information through packages like OneNote.
More in-depth users will find the ability to share information across the Office applications with the new "co-authoring" facility useful, and It's easy to access your files from different locations through Office Web Apps.
New PCs are often pre-installed with a trial version of Office 2010. This may be a free-to-use version with limited functions or give you all the functions but need to be purchased after a certain period of time or number of uses.
Click here for more information on the different MS Office versions:
A note about Outlook:
You may be used to using Outlook as your email program from previous versions of Windows and Office. Microsoft has now developed Windows Live Mail as the default email package in Windows. This new application has improved functions for adding and viewing multiple email accounts, among other things.
For more information on Windows Live Mail click the link below:
Apple iWork
- Creates professional looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
- Pages makes writing and page layout easy while numbers lets you organise your data
- Compatible with Microsoft Office, so it's easy to share your work
Ability Office 5.0
- An economic alternative to MS Office
- Comes with 8 applications
- Has word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programmes and Photopaint and Photoalbum for pictures
- Includes the popular Thunderbird Email software
- Keeps you organised with Lightning Calendar, a fully integrated calendar application
- Compatible with most MS Office programs
Free software:
Open Office
A strong package that offers many of the features you'd find in software you'd spend much more on. Although it has limitations, this offers tremendous power and value - it's free to download and use!
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Google Docs
This suite lets you create word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations through a web browser and save them on the internet rather than your computer. You're able to access these documents from any computer in the world - as long as you have an internet connection. You'll need a Google account for this software.
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