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Ability Office Professional Edition
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Product Description
ASI ABILITY OFFICE PRO . UK
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2306 in Software
- Brand: Ability
- Released on: 2005-01-31
- Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Editorial Reviews
PC Pro, Dec 2004
Ability Office leads the pack when it comes to value for money
Manufacturer's Description
Ability Office Professional is a complete productivity suite, delivering an MS Word compatible wordprocessor with tables, frames, red-underlining and grammar checker; an MS Excel compatible spreadsheet with conditional format styles, entry validation messages and data filtering; a fully relational, MS Access security-compatible database; a presentation package based upon the MS Powerpoint file format; an Adobe Photoshop compatible image-editor with layer modes, plug-in filter support, and red-eye reduction; and a photo organiser which can also convert between 25 image formats. It is easy-to-use and produces Adobe PDF output from all its major applications.
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Customer Reviews
A one-stop solution at a sensible price
Found Ability Office Pro very useful because we run a small business with an active website. It has enabled us to read Excel spreadsheets, which we couldn't do with MS Works and we couldn't justify spending a few hundred on MS Office. Plus, we can easily prepare pictures for web or email without having to learn a separate package. That means its easy to take pics from different digital cameras without having to learn how to change the image files using the different camera package softwares. Plus we can prepare pdf files without using a separate package. All in all, it just makes life simpler as you just get used to one style of interface.
A Great Alternative To Office
I purchased Ability Office a few week's ago to see how it would compare to MS Office and I must say that for the price it is a great alternative.
The interface and look of the product is not far off from Office, as with all new software it will take time to get use to Ability but for the price I can live with a few changes and the functionality is as close you will get to Office.
Cheap as chips and a lot of functionality for the money
This is a very good 'office' productivity package, and is far cheaper than the opposition (i.e. Microsoft Office 2003). It offers its own version of Word (now with autocorrect and grammer), PowerPoint (but complex PowerPoint files may not run within Ability so you may have to start from scratch) and Excel. Ability Professional also adds in a very good database, and you can download Ability Mail for Outlook style email. Whether Office 2003 offers any important extra functionality over Ability for home or small office users is questionable as many may keep to the simpler stuff that was even available on Office 95 (and corporate users normally get MS Office Pro free from work anyway). Have a look at www.ability.com, where you can download a trial version to see if this software suits your needs before buying. Ability upgrades are available at about half the purchase price, i.e. not a lot.
If you are a school student or teacher though, you can get MS Office 2003 for around £80 at Amazon (but no Access database and its XP only), and naturally only MS Office can offer true full compatibility with MS Office which business users expect you to use. Also have a look at Sun's OpenOffice.org [v2.0] - it's powerful, totally free to download and use, and also has basic compatibility with MS Office (including a database & draw program) and has all the main functionality and lots of on-line help. You can buy OpenOffice as Star Office for manuals, better support etc.. Note though that the university where I work (University College London) will sell any of their students a full copy of Microsoft Office Professional for £67 (via a Viglen online link) so prospective students should check this out with their college. Also ask around, Uncle Fred may have a full licenced copy of an older version of MS Office Pro (e.g. 2000 or XP) going spare - I have both. However despite the other options, Ability Office Pro is still clearly very good value, but do check it has the features you need via a trial download.
