- Ability Office
Ability Office is an
office suite forMicrosoft Windows published byAbility Plus Software . An alpha version of Ability Office for Linux has been developed but work has stalled on this version.Ability Office is a low-cost (although not free like the similarly-featured
OpenOffice.org unless you get the beta) alternative toMicrosoft Office andWordPerfect Office . Version 4 of Ability Office offers Office 2003 look and an expanded number of applications.Ability Office is popular with OEM system builders in the
United Kingdom Fact|date=February 2007. Ability Office provides more features thanMicrosoft Works at a similar OEM price.Ability Office VERSION 5 was released in June 2008. It supports Microsoft Office and other popular file formats, for import and export of files - so users can easily share files with users of Microsoft Office. Ability USA had made the following products available for the North American Market at [http://www.ASIability.us its site] :
Ability Office 5 [http://www.asiability.us/webpage.aspx?p=203 Home Edition] (Retail $69.95)
Ability Office 5 [http://www.asiability.us/webpage.aspx?p=207 Business Edition] (Retail $89.95)
Ability Office 5 [http://www.asiability.us/webpage.aspx?p=204 Graphics Edition] (Retail $49.95)
On
1 October ,2006 , it was announced that the UK supermarket,Tesco , would distribute its own-brand budget software packages in a deal withFormjet , Ability Software's exclusive distributor [cite web|url=http://www.formjetplc.com/231-061002-Tesco-announcement.htm|title=Formjet to launch range of Tesco-branded products|accessdate=2007-02-03|date=2006-10-02|publisher=Formjet] . As an office software was included, a rebranded version Ability Office, was made and it retails under £20 GBP. It is called Tesco Complete Office.Version 4
The latest version of Ability Office is version 4, released in 2004.
Features of version 4:
* A similar interface as seen in Microsoft Office 2003, although the user can choose to revert back the older interface (Office 2000) or the Windows XP interface seen in applications such as Microsoft Office 2002.
* AutoSpell in Write, a function that automatically highlights incorrect spellings as you type them and when the user right clicks over the incorrect word, a list of suggested correct spellings are shown. This functionality is also seen in Microsoft Word.The following modules are included:
* "Write" - A word processor similar to
Microsoft Word .
* "Spreadsheet" - Aspreadsheet equivalent toMicrosoft Excel .
* "Database" - A relational database manager in the category ofMicrosoft Access
* "Photopaint" - A bitmap graphics editor.
* "Presentation" - A new module in Version 4 similar toMicrosoft PowerPoint .
* "Photoalbum" - A photo application.Release History
ee also
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List of office suites
*Comparison of office suites References
External links
* [http://www.ability.com/sales/products/office.php?ln=uk Ability Office]
* [http://www.ability.com/ Ability Plus Software]
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