FreeOffice TextMaker: Features
Easy data exchange
Editing and formatting text
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Complex documents
Graphics and drawing
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Tables
Language tools
Extras
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FreeOffice PlanMaker: Features
Easy data exchange
- Direct document exchange with PlanMaker 2012, 2010, and 2008 on all operating systems
- Opens and saves XLS files of Microsoft Excel 5.0 to 2010 faithfully, including those with password protection
- Opens XLSX files of Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010 faithfully, including those with password protection
- Import and export wizard for text files and dBASE databases
- Create PDF files directly from PlanMaker
- Scale the printout so that it fits on "n" pages
- Windows only: Print 2, 4, 8, or 16 pages on one sheet of paper
Comprehensive calculation capabilities
- More than 330 calculation functions
- Supports complex numbers and array functions
- Numbers can be formatted as currency values, with fixed decimal places and thousands separators, as percentages or fractions, as dates and times, etc.
- Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 is not 1:00 but 25:00) which also allows negative times
- AutoSum, AutoProduct etc. automatically evaluate the desired cell ranges
- AutoFill with smart series recognition
- External references (calculations that access data in other files)
- Password protection and encryption for sheets, workbooks, and documents
Working with sheets
- Freeze rows and columns
- Syntax highlighting
- Comments
- Input validation
- AutoCompletion for cells
- Select and format multiple sheets simultaneously
Analyzing data
- Goal seeker
- Create database ranges within worksheets
- Data grouping (outliner)
- Sort and transpose
- AutoFilter and special filter
- Database functions for sum, average, variance etc.
Creating attractive worksheets
- Cell and character styles
- Transfer formatting with the format brush
- Conditional formatting
- AutoFormat: formatting with a single mouse click
- Borders, shading, fill patterns
- Rotate and merge cells
- Center across columns
- Create forms with input fields, checkboxes, dropdown lists etc.
- Headers and footers (separately for left/middle/right)
Graphics and drawing
- Comprehensive drawing and image functions: Draw and design directly in your documents, fully compatible with Microsoft Excel's AutoShapes.
- Crop pictures directly in PlanMaker
- Change brightness, contrast, and gamma of images directly inside PlanMaker
- "Sticky" connector lines between objects
- Large symbols library for flowcharts and org charts
- TextArt feature for amazing type effects
Present and visualize
- Create persuasive charts with built-in powerful Excel-compatible charting
- 70 different chart types
- Each chart element can be individually formatted with any kind of fill pattern, color, or gradient.
- Free rotation of 3D charts
Extras
- Fully Unicode-enabled, including Arabic
- Windows only: PlanMaker operates as an OLE server and lets you insert its sheets and charts in any other program.
- Spell-checking in 58 languages using Hunspell dictionaries
- Automatic hyphenation in 33 languages
FreeOffice Presentations: Features
Easy data exchange
- Direct document exchange with SoftMaker Presentations 2012, 2010, and 2008 on all operating systems
- Opens and saves PPT files of Microsoft PowerPoint 97 to 2010 faithfully, including those with password protection
- Opens PPTX files of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 faithfully, including those with password protection
- Print and create PDF files of your slides, outlines, handouts, and notes
- Export entire presentations as collections of images
Designing
- Several attractive design templates give you impressive results fast.
- Each design comes with many matching color schemes.
- Create your own color schemes and switch between them instantaneously.
- Pre-defined slide layouts let you rearrange slide contents with a mouse click.
- Universal placeholders that can be filled with text, graphics, tables, video, or sound
- Sophisticated master page concept (allows global changes on all slides simultaneously)
- Many graphical bullets included
Animations and slide transitions
- Hundreds of object and text animations available
- Ready-made animation schemes that animate entire presentations at once
Drawing and graphics
- Comprehensive drawing and image functions: Draw and design directly in your slides, fully compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint's AutoShapes.
- Insert images in all common formats
- Crop pictures directly in SoftMaker Presentations
- Change brightness, contrast, and gamma of images directly inside SoftMaker Presentations
- "Sticky" connector lines between objects
- Large symbols library for flowcharts and org charts
- TextArt feature for amazing type effects
- Flexible tables with many formatting options
Multimedia
- Windows only: Insert movie and sound files
- Play multimedia files either automatically or through actions (click or mouse-over)
- Play sounds across slides
Managing and outlining
- Outliner
- Built-in slide sorter lets you manage and arrange slides
Flexible presentations
- Flexible customization of slide shows
- Interactive presentation of slide shows with virtual pen and highlighter
- Automated presentations without a speaker (kiosk mode)
- Run slide shows on a second monitor
- Use notes as an aid to the speaker
- Handouts for the audience
Extras
- Fully Unicode-enabled, including Arabic
- Windows only: SoftMaker Presentations operates as an OLE server and lets you insert its slides in any other program.
- Spell-checking in 58 languages using Hunspell dictionaries
- Automatic hyphenation in 33 languages
Supported languages
FreeOffice lets you edit documents in all languages of the world, even Arabic.
User interface (menus and dialog boxes)
English (United States), English (United Kingdom), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Japanese
Spell-checking
FreeOffice comes with German and English dictionaries. You can extend the spell checker by downloading more dictionaries. 58 languages are available.
Automatic hyphenation
English (United States), English (United Kingdom), French (France), French (Canada), German (pre- and post-reform), Swiss German (pre- and post-reform), Italian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish, Greek, Czech, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
SoftMaker FreeOffice is a free version of SoftMaker Office. The most important differences are listed below.
SoftMaker Office Standard 2012 for Windows
SoftMaker Office Standard 2012 adds, among others, the following features:
- Spell checking using high-quality commercial dictionaries in 20 languages
- Synonym dictionaries (thesauri) in eight languages
- FreeOffice reads the modern Microsoft formats DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX seamlessly. SoftMaker Office can also save in these formats.
- Seamless import and export of the modern Microsoft formats DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX
- Documents are presented in tabs, just like in a web browser.
- The extended sidebar gives you a bird's eye view over your document and its stylesheets.
- Free technical support by SoftMaker
- Additional features such as a style manager, printing of envelopes and labels, macros, mailmerge, cross references, and figure captions
SoftMaker Office Professional 2012 for Windows
SoftMaker Office Professional expands upon the features of the standard edition by adding:
- SoftMaker eM Client Professional, a complete replacement for Microsoft Outlook which manages your e-mail messages, contacts, tasks, and appointments competently.
- Four Berlitz dictionaries for translations from/to English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish
SoftMaker Office 2012 for Linux
SoftMaker Office 2012 for Linux comes with these improvements over FreeOffice for Linux:
- Spell checking using high-quality commercial dictionaries in 20 languages
- Synonym dictionaries (thesauri) in eight languages
- FreeOffice reads the modern Microsoft formats DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX seamlessly. SoftMaker Office can also save in these formats.
- Documents are presented in tabs, just like in a web browser.
- The extended sidebar gives you a bird's eye view over your document and its stylesheets.
- Free technical support by SoftMaker
- Additional features such as a style manager, printing of envelopes and labels, macros, mailmerge, cross references, and figure captions
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