http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/ Fri, 25 May 2012 18:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/#comment-69792 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:06:23 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=1938#comment-69792 I can recommend Softmaker Office, which is also priced between OOo and MS Office (80US$).
Very fast, even on my eeePC, good feature set and extremely stable.

]]> http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/#comment-69791 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:05:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=1938#comment-69791 I can recommend Softmaker Office, which is also priced between OOo and MS Office (80US$).
Very fast, even on my eeePC, good feature set and extremely stable.

]]> http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/#comment-69790 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:57:47 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=1938#comment-69790 Nice, I will look into this one. Right now I am hooked on open office as it is completely free.

]]> http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/#comment-69789 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:21:48 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=1938#comment-69789 Myke, I’ve tried Abiword and couldn’t find anything about it I liked. My word processor of choice on my Mac is Bean, however I find myself rarely using it since the Mac will show me spelling errors by default. I rarely need to use custom forms or tables or advanced layouts and can say it has probably been 4 months or more since I’ve even launched it.

]]> http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/#comment-69788 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:25:39 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=1938#comment-69788 [...] Web Worker Daily has a post about 602PC Suite which sits between the Microsoft Office end of the market and the free OpenOffice [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/#comment-69787 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:35:32 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=1938#comment-69787 Abiword is a nice Word alternative. Personally, I’ve been happy using the online Zoho apps.

]]> http://gigaom.com/collaboration/a-near-free-great-alternative-to-microsoft-office/#comment-69786 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:43:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=1938#comment-69786 Interesting, I’ll have to check it out. Is there any way to automate Software 602, the way Microsoft Office is so readily extended using VBA?

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