Ability Office 4 Professional
Office suites are among the most widely used applications on desktop computers. Whether it's creating documents, spreadsheets or a presentation, office suites have always been a great boon. While MS Office is clearly the most widely used office suite in the commercial category, Open Office is the rightful winner among the freeware.
The ease of use and features offered by commercial application may not be as good as in the free ones. Hence, you are either required to buy an expensive suite or humbly settle for the freeware. But there might be a solution to this in the office category. The answer is the lesser known Ability Office 4 -- an MS office 2003 look-alike office suite that offers more features than MS Office and is cheaper. We reviewed the Professional edition, which is the complete office suite from Ability's stable.
The main applications; Write, Spreadsheet, and presentation are very similar to their MS Office 2003 counterparts; Word, Excel and PowerPoint. So don't be surprised if you have a feeling of déjà vu while using Ability Office 4. The option to save documents as PDFs, which is not available even in Office 2007, unless you download a plug-in, is available in Ability Office.
For: Cheap alternative to Office 2003
Against: None
The ease of use and features offered by commercial application may not be as good as in the free ones. Hence, you are either required to buy an expensive suite or humbly settle for the freeware. But there might be a solution to this in the office category. The answer is the lesser known Ability Office 4 -- an MS office 2003 look-alike office suite that offers more features than MS Office and is cheaper. We reviewed the Professional edition, which is the complete office suite from Ability's stable.
The main applications; Write, Spreadsheet, and presentation are very similar to their MS Office 2003 counterparts; Word, Excel and PowerPoint. So don't be surprised if you have a feeling of déjà vu while using Ability Office 4. The option to save documents as PDFs, which is not available even in Office 2007, unless you download a plug-in, is available in Ability Office.
For: Cheap alternative to Office 2003
Against: None
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