OutlookFIX can repair corrupt Outlook PST files, undelete files that have been erased by the user or by a system error, and can reduce an Outlook PST file size by splitting it into several smaller files, solving the 2Gb size problem in Outlook. This is the only Outlook repair and undelete program in the market that restores Outlook tasks, calendars, and post-its.

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The productivity suite market is generally dominated by two main options: you either use the proprietary Microsoft Office suite or its open source alternative, Open Office. But if you don't like any of them, I'm glad to inform you there's a third choice.

Kingsoft Office is a fully featured, completely free office suite you can use for your daily work tasks. It includes three main applications: Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, to create DOC, PPT and XLS files respectively. The three of them are installed and launched separately – unlike Lotus Symphony, which uses a common interface. There are no apps for databases, email, or web publications.

I must admit these three apps are almost identical to their Microsoft Office equivalents, so identical in fact I'm beginning to wonder if it's just a copy. Whatever the Kingsoft developers used to create the suite, I'm happy to be able a complete suite without having to pay for it. Also, the fact that it's so similar to other suites you may have been using up to know makes the learning curve practically non-existent.

Kingsoft includes interesting options such as the ability to export any document to PDF format and support for document encryption. On the downside, the suite felt a bit unstable during our tests: the Spreadsheets app, for example, crashed on one of our machines but worked perfectly well on a different one.

In any case, Kingsoft Office 2007 is a great free alternative for productivity suite users who don’t want to tie themselves to the same old choices.

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Whenever I hear the word "Pro" and "Microsoft" in the same package, I get inherently nervous because it's often nothing more than a few add-ons for hundreds of dollars more.

The first thing to warn you about is upgrading from Office 2007 with this package. You are almost certainly going to experience a myriad of upgrade problems, compatibility issues and goodness knows what else. certainly. Note that you'll certainly need a considerable amount of time to adjust to upgrading to this new version of Office although those used to the Classic version will probably have least problem and for the cost of the upgrade, it's debatable whether it actually increases productivity or speed of use at all. The ribbons in particular are still cluttered, poorly organised and occupy too much of the desktop. In addition, there's not much added functionality although they have manged to make sure that the ‘saved’ file sizes are smaller. I really can't see much reason in upgrading from Office 2003 based on this very frustrating version of 2007 but if you really do enjoy constant technical hiccups and error messages, then go ahead.

This is one Microsoft upgrade to definitely avoid although the one advantage is that saved file sizes are smaller.

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In the beginning was Microsoft Office. Then OpenOffice appeared as an open-source alternative. And now IBM makes a new move and offers its own productivity suite, all free of charge. The idea is not new: there have been a few free suites launched lately, but all of them were online. IBM Lotus Symphony is the only desktop suite that, together with OpenOffice, can offer a free alternative to Microsoft's proprietary apps.

IBM Lotus Symphony offers three tools: word processor, spreadsheet and presentations. It's true that other productivity suites are usually more complete. However, Lotus Symphony stands out for a convenient, single-windowed interface from which you can launch the three apps. Simply click on the "Open" button and select the kind of document you want to open: the program's toolbar will change accordingly. What's more, you can have as many opened documents as you want at the same time, no matter which type, and switch between them in the top tab bar.

The suite includes all the basic tools that you could expect in such an application: spell checker and tables for documents, predesigned templates for presentations and charts for spreadsheets - to name a few - besides the usual configuration options as regards fonts, colors and the like.

In my personal opinion, I'm glad to have another possibility to choose from when deciding which suite I'm going to use. A little rivalry is always good and usually produces better and wider options for computer users. And it seems IBM is beginning to take the suite competition quite seriously.

IBM Lotus Symphony has left the beta stage behind and now offers a stable, highly functional productivity suite that, despite not being as complete as other suites, may perfectly fit your needs.

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Finally you can create fully navigable online versions of your PDF files in a very stylish way. It’s like turning the page of a book but with the possibility of zooming in, so as not to stress your eyes.

3D Issue Manager is very easy to use, although the graphics could have been nicer. All it requires is that you select a PDF file, choose the orientation of the output document as portrait, landscape or a mix of both, and select the image resolution together with its quality. The program automatically creates the virtual booklet, which is optimized for search engines.

In the main window there are some interesting options you can choose from which allow you to personalise the zoom navigation to either click and drag, or mouse movements, and allow users to download an offline edition of your virtual glossy magazine. These are just two examples, but there is a whole feature list on offer. Strangely enough, the program’s windows are not resizable, which can be annoying if you have to work with different windows open.

With 3D Issue Manager you can easily and efficiently convert your PDF files into fully accessible online 3D booklets, so as to present documents in a stylish, glossy way - and save paper along the way.

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If you're on the open source side you'll probably be using Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. But did you know there is more than one version of Open Office?

Go-OO (that is, Go-Open Office) is a fork of Open Office, that is, a special version or development build that features some interesting improvements regarding the suite it's based on. Among these improvements you can find support for OpenXML and Microsoft Works files, an optimized Microsoft binary file support, and perfect import of Wordperfect graphics, among others. You can also work with Excel VBA macros and Visio diagrams.

Other than that, Go-OO is visually identical to the original Open Office suite and includes exactly the same apps, namely Writer, Calc, Math, Impress, Draw and Base.

If you need the specific improvements included in this special version of Open Office, give it a try; if not, you may as well download the official version because there's not that much difference.

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Microsoft has added new file formats to the 2007 versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to reduce file size, improve reliability, and enhance integration with external sources.

To help ensure that you can exchange documents between Microsoft Office releases, Microsoft has developed a Compatibility Pack for the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats. By installing the Compatibility Pack (Beta 2 Technical Refresh) alongside Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open, edit, save, and create files using the robust file formats new to the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

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Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program used to manipulate and analyze numeric data. Gnumeric can help you keep track of information in lists, organize numeric values in columns and rows, perform and update complex calculations by defining each step of the calculation and modifying particular steps subsequently, create and display or print graphical plots of data using bar plots, line graphs, pie charts or radar charts, implement complex optimization modeling or perform many other tasks involving numbers, dates, times, names or other data.

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OpenOffice 3.0 is already here, at least in beta version. The most popular alternative to the almighty Microsoft suite has released its first public beta to allow users to provide feedback and help fine-tune the final product. So here's our two cents.

First, though the OpenOffice site displays a warning about possible instability issues in this beta, fear them not. The complete suite was perfectly stable during our tests, with all its applications running as smoothly as expected. This new OpenOffice is compatible with all file formats from Microsoft Office, including the latest docx, xlsx, pptx and so on from Office 2008.

All OpenOffice tools, along with your more recent documents, are easily accessible from a launcher ("Start Centre") with freshly designed icons, which is one of the main new features in this version. The launcher includes a handy template manager as well, though it's quite empty at the moment.

The suite's applications met our expectations in every aspect: they're easy to use (especially if you're used to working with Microsoft's suite) and feature all the necessary tools to create complete documents, spreadsheets, presentations and databases. I particularly liked the wizard-style interface in Impress (the "Power-Point" app) which enables you to create presentations in no time.

OpenOffice 3.0 left a very good test in our mouths. In spite of being labeled as Beta, the whole suite works perfectly fine and enables you to enjoy all of its new features right now.

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OxygenOffice Professional is an office suite completely based on the famous open source package OpenOffice, but with more templates, cliparts, samples and fonts. All six applications included in OpenOffice are present, but if you click on File, New, Templates and Documents, you’ll find ten categories to choose from with dozens of pre-formatted documents, so you can save time and have more eye-catching works in minutes.

The categories go from Business Correspondence to Presentation and Education. In each one you can find templates for different type of files, like spreadsheet, presentation, andwriting documents.

Although it’s appreciable the effort of providing more materials to work with, OxygenOffice doesn’t add that much to OpenOffice. Having aimed to be more graphically efficient, the program could have improved the general GUI of the Open Office application. In this case it would have been a real plus and people would have had more reason to use it.

OxygenOffice offers many templates and cliparts for you to be more creative while creating personal or professional documents. It would have been nice if the program had improved the GUI also to differentiate the package from OpenOffice though.

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Portable OpenOffice.org allows you to carry an entire office suite -- word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, etc. -- with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own.

Portable OpenOffice.org is a repackaged version of OpenOffice.org designed with portability in mind. It works just like regular OpenOffice.org installed on your computer does, except it allows you to use it on any Windows computer without installing anything. It has all the features of the excellent OpenOffice.org office suite except for the Data application. It also includes some special enhancements to make it work even better from your portable drive.

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Although it is true that standalone computers are always more powerful, it is also true that for portable devices, the need for light applications is always strong. If the portable device were to be a USB pen drive this need is even greater.

In modern life, its useful to have all our document, photos, videos and contacts with us all the timeIts nice to feel free to send a document we have just created at any moment if we need to. The release of very thin and hybrid devices, notebooks with a very small screen try to answer to this need and this life style change. So far though, these devices are not that powerful and they don't have so much storage space. Having a tiny application then is still important and this is why this set of programs may come inhandy.

Tiny USB Office allows you to create text file, export them topdf, use a basic MSN Instant Messaging service, and create spreadsheets. Do not think you can open and modify your doc or xls files though. The application, at least for the latest file uses a proprietary format not compatible with Excel, despite what the developer says. I've actually tried creating simple excel files and the Tiny USB Office couldn't open them. The utility is of course reduced, but you might find useful to have a little office of just 2.3Mb, always available on your USB drive.

The idea of a portable office is great, but I would have allowed compatibility with MS Office; if not the portability is zero and the utility greatly reduced.

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Microsoft Office is probably the most widespread office suite in the world, but that doesn't mean you can't use other office packages instead.

One of them is SoftMake Office, a fairly complete office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet app and presentation tool, all in one single package. It's not as fully featured as the Microsoft suite, but it's compatible with its formats (DOC, XLS, PPT and more) and it's also remarkably faster - and of course, a lot cheaper.

The suite includes also Smash, a Windows Explorer add-on that improves some shell functions and enables you to access the suite's apps from Windows taskbar, and BasicMaker, a Basic source code editor. However, it doesn't include an email client or any other equivalent app to Microsoft Outlook.

SoftMaker Office gives an overall impression of a very professional package. What's more, you can install the whole suite in a USB stick so you can use it anywhere without leaving any trace on the host computer.

If you'd like to try an alternative app to the almighty Microsoft suite, SoftMaker Office is a very good option, but bear in mind that it's not that complete.

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OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages, with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source.

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We've all encountered the nightmare scenario where an Excel sheet that we've worked on for hours and hours somehow corrupts and leaves us with nothing to show for all that hard work.

If you've ever been in this horrible situation or are in it now then Recovery for Excel may save your bacon. The program cannot guarantee it will recover your files but it's probably your best bet if the worst has happened.

This latest version of Recovery for Excel now supports Microsoft Excel 2007 and is capable of recovering all of the version's features as well as previous ones. The program works very simply - just browse to the file you need to examine and it passes through 5 steps.

First it reads the file, then analyses the data structure to find the error. It then prepares the data, recalculates it and finally rewrites the file with what hopefully is a functioning file structure. The whole process takes a matter of seconds but unfortunately, this demo version does not let you recover the while file - you have to upgrade to the full version to see whether it actually worked.

This is a very quick and last ditch solution for corrupted Excel files although you'll need to cough up some dough to see whether it was effective or not.

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Making sure defined terms are used correctly is a painstaking task. You have to read your text carefully, word for word, over and over, verifying that terms and phrases are used and capitalized as they should be depending on the context. Long documents, multiple drafts, late hours, looming deadlines - all make it more difficult than it needs to be to catch and correct mistakes in your documents.

You can manually go through your documents, searching and highlighting terms one by one. But the more terms you search for, the more time consuming the process, and it’s even more difficult to create an index because you have to insert the right codes. If you’ve got scores of defined terms to check, the manual process can become unmanageable.

Defined Terms Indexer automates the process of finding, highlighting and indexing any number of words and phrases, whenever you want. You can quickly and easily track any or all of your terms to make sure they’re used and capitalized correctly with a few clicks of a mouse.

Features of the app:

• Automatically finds all defined terms
• Users can supply their own list of words and phrases instead of or in addition to any defined terms
• Users can select one, more or all terms for indexing
• Case-sensitive or case-insensitive searches
• Optional highlighting - every instance of each indexed term can be highlighted making it easy to see indexed terms on screen and in print
• Indexes terms found, lists terms defined but not used and user-supplied terms used but not defined
• Index-deletion feature removes all defined terms index markers and indexes to leave a clean copy
• Compatible with Word 2000, 2002/XP and 2003 (Word 97 version available on request)

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There are many reasons you might want to use Microsoft Office Word Viewer: perhaps you need to check a document on a public computer or maybe you've been sent a Word document but don't have time to install Microsoft Office in its entirety. Whatever your reason, if you need to view or print any Microsoft Word document quickly, this tool could prove to be a real lifesaver.

After a simple install process, run the app and you're presented with an Open File dialog window. Remember: you can't create, change or save any document in Word Viewer. Select your chosen file (the viewer supports .docx files via a converter, as well as older .doc and other formats).

Upon opening your document, you'll see that it displays just as it would in Microsoft Word, only without any of the editing tools. This means that you can see editorial notes and changes, if they have been tracked on the document. Additionally, you may access the file's properties window which will display statistics and authorship information, along with other details.

While you cannot export or save any document from Word Viewer, you do have two options for obtaining a copy of the text. You may either print the document (which works just as well as printing from the full version of Word), and you're also allowed to copy the text and paste it into another application.

In all, Microsoft Office Word Viewer is a small and useful application. While it has no editing functions, it lets you read documents from any version of Microsoft Word with ease.

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This plug-in for Microsoft Outlook allows you to convert your contacts into the vCard format (VCF file). But you can convert only one contact at a time. Now, with VCard4Outlook, you can easily convert all your contacts to the vCard format with a few clicks.

Features:

• Import/Convert vCard or vcf format files to the chosen Outlook Contact Folder
• Export/Convert any Outlook Contact Folder or chosen contacts to the Vcard or vcf format files or one file in the chosen windows folder
• Contacts Duplicates Management
• New! Different languages and encoding
• Support for vCard versions 2.1 and 3.0
• Integrated in Microsoft Outlook File menu

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ASAP Utilities contains over 300 useful and powerful utilities to fill the gaps in Excel, and automate frequently used tasks. Here are just a few of the tools that you will find in this program:

A few of ASAP's popular tools:

• Deselect cells
• Apply formula to selected range
• Conditional select cells (i.e. cells > 12 or red cells)
• Copy a worksheet's page and print settings
• Vision control, view workbooks, sheets and easily change their settings
• Print multiple sheets
• Color each n'th row or column
• File import and export (txt, csv, dbf, xls, gif, jpg, etc.)
• Export selection as HTML table (including formats, colors etc.)

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Compare Spreadsheets for Excel is a powerful and convenient tool for comparison of files in Microsoft Excel. At a first glance, two lists of prices may look identical. Compare Spreadsheets for Excel allows you to search for differences without doing any of the hard work.

Begin my simply starting the program - there is no need to open the tables to be compared. Specify the tables or ranges of cells to be compared and choose the aligning parameters for comparison (by rows or columns). Specify what you would like to compare: cell values or formulas and set the way of highlighting the different cells (background color and/or the color and style of the cell border).

The program then proceeds to successfully find all the changes in the latest price list such as new products (highlighted in green) and the changed prices (cells with a red border). There's no need to even run Microsoft Office - Compare Spreadsheets for Excel performs everything independently.

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