SoftMaker - Free office suite software

It seems like some new office suite software that is competing against Microsoft Office. The list of online office suites that I’ve is long: Google Docs, ThinkFree Office Suite, Zoho online Office apps, Adobe Buzzword online word processor, and Live Documents.
But that’s not all! There are several free desktop office suite programs too including Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice, StarOffice. Today I found a new software and want to share with you guys. Its called SoftMaker Office 2006 .

SoftMaker Office 2006 is a MS Word-compatible word processor and MS Excel-compatible spreadsheet office suite that is small in size and has a good number of features. The unique thing about this program is that it can run off your USB stick, which makes it a portable office suite.
OpenOffice can also run off your USB stick, but it’s way bigger than SoftMaker Office suite, almost 4 to 5 times larger because of all the other programs it includes.
SoftMaker Office is made up of two programs, TextMaker and PlanMaker. TextMaker is a feature-rich word processor that is fast, stable, and powerful. It can also read and write Word documents from version 6.0 to Word 2007. So you can use it to view and edit Word 2007 documents using TextMaker instead of MS Office.

It also has other cool features that you would find in a commercial word processor like MailMerge, spelling correction, built-in database, and more.
PlanMaker can read and write MS Excel files from version 5 to Excel 2007. It’s a feature rich spreadsheet application with more than 320 calculation functions. You can create charts and graphs with drawings, auto-shapes, word art, etc.
You can even use PlanMaker to create Excel-compatible charts that will be viewable by MS Office users. Other features include conditional formatting, goal seeker, syntax highlighting, sheet and workbook protection and more. If you use word processing and spreadsheet programs casually, then SoftMaker might be the choice for you. It uses very little RAM as compared to Microsoft Office and OpenOffice and it takes very little space a USB flash drive, so you can use it on someone else’s computer.

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