Google Docs has to be one of Google's greatest innovations in recent times making it easier than ever to share documents and not mess around sending attachments all the time.

Ok, it's still not as good as using an Office suite (and still lacks a decent Powerpoint equivalent) but it's immensely useful in a variety of situations. gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for Firefox that makes your Google Documents closer than ever. Rather than having to access the Google Docs site, you can simply access your documents via a sidebar.

gDocsBar allows you to even drag and drop multiple files and documents into the sidebar to upload. So, if you need to work on a Word document while on the move, just drag it into the gDocsBar sidebar and you'll be able to edit it online. In addition, you can also search and filter documents from the sidebar. It also includes some snazzy templates, webclips and smart folders. Of course, this requires access to your Google Account and there's no guarantee that gDocsBar doesn't store that data although the developers assure that it's totally secure using SSL.

If you are constantly on the move and need to access your documents anytime anywhere, the gDocsBar is definitely worth a look.

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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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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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If you're an Excel junkie, then you'll appreciate any new tool that can help you get the most out of it. Excel Conditional Formatting allows you to analyze your Excel spreadsheets quickly and easily using "n" levels of Conditional Formatting available with this powerful tool.

To analyse a specific amount of information in Excel, you can highlight it in a particular colour as a default feature. However, this "Conditional Formatting" only supports three conditional levels. Excel Conditional Formatting, an excellent complement to Excel, which will allow you to format all the cells and ranges you may need, by using "n" conditional levels.

This means that you can use all the levels you want. The developers highlight one example where this can be useful in terms of stock market prices. You can compile the latest stock market prices in your Excel document and Excel Conditional Formatting can be configured to add a specific color to all the cells containing the latest prices. New functions recently added include a new toggle settings tool, conditional text function. menu ribbon and web shortcuts function.

This is an excellent tool for those that work regularly with Excel although it's only useful for those that need more than three conditional levels.

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WDReportGen is a report generator for Microsoft Word that outputs reports in Microsoft Word document format. If you know how to use Microsoft Word and write SQL statements, you can use WDReportGen to create all kinds of reports as you need.

Benefit:

• Use Microsoft Word as your reporting tool
• Easy to use. Just Microsoft Word and SQL
• Powerful and flexible. Microsoft Word are powerful and flexible
• Saves money. Do not need to buy extra costly reporting tools
• Saves time. Reduce development time and training time
• Improves productivity. Reports are in familiar formats
• For various users: IT users, business users and developers

Features:

• Create report template directly using Microsoft Word
• Access to databases using SQL
• Connection to all databases using ODBC
• Creation of the reports with parameters
• Support of Windows mode and command line mode

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Floppy Office is a collection of small, self contained no-install free office software applications which enable the end use access to every tool, utility and program imaginable for home, business, and student users alike.

All of the self-contained, standalone applications require no installation, whatsoever, and for this reason make the perfect companion software package for your USB stick. All one needs to do is to extract all the zip files containing each application to their USB, configure them to their liking, and they are all set.

The applications included in this bundle are: an encryption program, a zip utility, an FTP client, a multiple document interface Rich Text editor, a notepad-style editor, secure file shredder, full POP email client, web server for hosting files via http, a mini tree-style outliner, vector graphics editor, a spreadsheet program compatible with Microsoft Excel, file renaming utility, and a PDF creator. Since these applications are so small, you may be wondering if these are all console applications. The answer is no — they all have a conventional, intuitive, graphic user interface.

Given the fact that Floppy Office is so small in size, this is definitely a software bundle worth having on your USB, or keeping around for a rainy day. It is the perfect portable office solution for anyone who is on the road a lot, or who finds themselves working on different PCs.

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Worksheet Search is a search and activation extension for Microsoft Excel. Worksheet Search integrates into the Excel toolbar and adds a quick worksheet search using sheet name or a wildcard. The main purpose of the add-on is to help people using Excel workbooks with a large number of sheets to quickly switch between the required sheets.

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Business Functions is a free function library for Microsoft Excel designed to make business plans, budgets, structured financings and cashflows.

It's based on the principle that using a purpose-built function in a cell is more transparent, reliable, flexible and accurate than an overly long Excel formula.

This principle has been extended to a comprehensive projections functions that project cashflows and accruals with a high degree of daycount accuracy.

Up to 500 or so functions in C++ do the dirty work of projecting costs and revenues, coping with time periods, growth etc.

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Why go to the trouble of using expensive and complicated 3D authoring packages when WowChart makes it so easy? Produce an awesome chart with a single button click. The fun starts when you use the left mouse button to grab the chart and drag it around to view at the angle you want. You can also zoom in and out. The chart moves in real time as you drag it with the mouse.

The real wow factor of WowChart is seeing the chart actually animating. The bars spin in from off screen and land exactly in place. The bars can rotate. The camera angle moves. All in all, its an action packed display. The best way to describe this is for you to actually see it yourself.

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DocRepair is a professional recovery software for corrupted Microsoft Word files and documents. DocRepair can recover and restore corrupted, damaged, or unopenable Word files.

Features:

• Rescues most unopenable Microsoft Word files problems
• Resolves"The document name or file path is not valid" problem
• Fixes problems in which the file opens, but Microsoft Word hangs

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XLReportGen is a report generator for Microsoft Excel that outputs reports in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format. If you know how to use Microsoft Excel and write SQL statements, you can use XLReportGen to create all kinds of reports as you need.

Benefit:

• Use Microsoft Excel as your reporting tool
• Easy to use. Just Microsoft Excel and SQL
• Powerful and flexible. Microsoft Excel are powerful and flexible
• Saves money. Do not need to buy extra costly reporting tools
• Saves time. Reduce development time and training time
• Improves productivity. Reports are in familiar formats
• For various users: IT users, business users and developers

Features:

• Create report template directly using Microsoft Excel
• Access to databases using SQL
• Connection to all databases using ODBC
• Creation of the reports with parameters

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The Toolbar Controls .NET for Microsoft Office is a plug-in for Add-in Express that customizes Microsoft Office commandbars (the CommandBar object also referred to as a toolbar) by placing any .NET controls onto the Microsoft Office command bars (toolbars). Microsoft Office 2003, 2002 (XP) and Microsoft Office 2000 are supported.

It has no analogs on the component market so far. It offers all necessary functionality for developing feature-rich COM add-ins for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. You can get both the flexibility of .NET and a familiar Microsoft Office interface for your COM add-ins and ensure great user experience.

The Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office extends the functionality of Add-in Express and makes it possible to add any .NET controls (buttons, grids, labels, user controls etc) to Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint commandbars (toolbars).

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If you are looking for a quick and easy way of sharing and synchronizing Microsoft Outlook Folders (email, Contacts, Tasks, Calendars, Notes), as well as share any documents and files this program is for you. You just need to install ShareO for Microsoft Outlook on your computer running Outlook 2000/2002/2003 and on computers of your preferred teammates, and after a few clicks their folders information will be synchronized each time you update the shared folder on your PC. Your partners will receive the updated outlook items (contacts, appointments, tasks, emails, notes, journal entries, documents, etc.) via regular e-mail. You will be able to update and manage all your shared outlook items offline or using any type of Internet connection. It is an easy and effective solution for remote companies and groups.

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Do you have duplicate e-mails on your PC? Or all your contacts doubled? No problem, Duplicate Killer for Microsoft Outlook can find and remove the duplicate items automatically. Duplicate Killer for Microsoft Outlook is a powerful plug-in for searching, managing and eliminating any type of duplicates (e-mails, contacts, tasks, calendar items (events, appointments, meetings), notes, journals) across all or chosen Outlook folders (including public folders).

You can customize the way how the program recognizes duplicates and choose between two optimized duplicate search algorithms that will help you find identical data quickly. Choose between an easy one-click duplicate removing process or a sophisticated wizard. You can even save each of your search duplicate settings in the profile that can be processed in one click available from the Outlook toolbar, to save your valuable time.

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Load XML files into Excel as a table. Opening XML files and importing the data is done by choosing the XML tags to be used as rows and columns. This simple add on for Excel will quickly become a valuable tool as it is easy to use and presents XML files clearly as spreadsheets.

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