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Free office software tools for business
FREE Office productivity software
OpenOffice is the best-known open-source office software suite and provides an easy way to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases, and pdf files. It's been developed over twenty years so is a mature, stable, product, guaranteeing trouble-free usage.
Another great advantage is that it can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose, and there's no software licence restricting the number of users or needing renewal.
Apart from the fact its completely free, OpenOffice is compatible with other office software so you won't be restricted by incompatbility issues. All your data is in international open standard format so it can read and write files from other common office software packages . Download OpenOffice.
FREE image manipulation software
GIMP has a mass of features and can be used to resize images with no loss of clarity, as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, and an image format converter.
GIMP's many features include:
- A full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, and Clone
- Advanced manipulation eg editable text layers, transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip and selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free
- Animation tools
- Multiple file format support including bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and load, display, convert, and save to many file formats.
For more info on GIMP and to download visit www.gimp.org
Create basic word processing or spreadsheet documents for free
Google Docs is an online collaboration service that enables a group of users to share and update documents.
What Google Docs also allows you to do is create basic word processing and spreadsheet documents from scratch, for free!
You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts. Familiar desktop editing features include toolbar buttons for functions such as bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, and change cell background colour.
If you’re not going to share your documents with anyone, once you’ve created them you can download your documents and store them on your computer.
A quick look at Google Docs
- no software to download or install
- access your documents online from any computer with a standard browser and an internet connection
- create your documents from scratch or start from a template
- or upload existing DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT and other popular file formats
- decide who can view and edit each document (only you, some people, or everyone)
- no need to email files around - Google Docs will send all collaborators a link to access the document online
- no need to keep track of edits or who has the latest version
- several people can make changes at once and see other people's edits as they happen in real time
- each revision is automatically saved so you can see who changed what and when
- revert to an older version at any point
Free office software tools for business
FREE Office productivity software
OpenOffice is the best-known open-source office software suite and provides an easy way to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases, and pdf files. It's been developed over twenty years so is a mature, stable, product, guaranteeing trouble-free usage.
Another great advantage is that it can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose, and there's no software licence restricting the number of users or needing renewal.
Apart from the fact its completely free, OpenOffice is compatible with other office software so you won't be restricted by incompatbility issues. All your data is in international open standard format so it can read and write files from other common office software packages . Download OpenOffice.
FREE image manipulation software
GIMP has a mass of features and can be used to resize images with no loss of clarity, as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, and an image format converter.
GIMP's many features include:
- A full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, and Clone
- Advanced manipulation eg editable text layers, transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip and selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free
- Animation tools
- Multiple file format support including bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and load, display, convert, and save to many file formats.
For more info on GIMP and to download visit www.gimp.org
Create basic word processing or spreadsheet documents for free
Google Docs is an online collaboration service that enables a group of users to share and update documents.
What Google Docs also allows you to do is create basic word processing and spreadsheet documents from scratch, for free!
You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts. Familiar desktop editing features include toolbar buttons for functions such as bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, and change cell background colour.
If you’re not going to share your documents with anyone, once you’ve created them you can download your documents and store them on your computer.
A quick look at Google Docs
- no software to download or install
- access your documents online from any computer with a standard browser and an internet connection
- create your documents from scratch or start from a template
- or upload existing DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT and other popular file formats
- decide who can view and edit each document (only you, some people, or everyone)
- no need to email files around - Google Docs will send all collaborators a link to access the document online
- no need to keep track of edits or who has the latest version
- several people can make changes at once and see other people's edits as they happen in real time
- each revision is automatically saved so you can see who changed what and when
- revert to an older version at any point
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