SoftMaker Office for Linux and FreeBSD Review

SoftMaker Office 2006. Powerful, compatible, fast, reliable. Your office suite is the most important application on your PC for document creation, both on your job and for personal tasks. Choose SoftMaker Office 2006, and you will get the job done in less time, with more attractive results, and at drastically lower cost than with Microsoft Office.

SoftMaker Office 2006 contains the following applications:
Word processor TextMaker 2006 and spreadsheet PlanMaker 2006.

Both applications are designed to seamlessly read and write Microsoft Office documents – TextMaker provides reliable access to Microsoft Word word processing files, and PlanMaker reads and writes Microsoft Excel spreadsheets perfectly.

TextMaker and PlanMaker offer a familiar user interface – if you have worked with Word and Excel before, you will feel right at home. At the same time, TextMaker and PlanMaker are friendlier and easier to use than Microsoft Office.

TextMaker 2006 offers superior compatibility with Microsoft Word. In fact, you won't find another word processor that is as capable of handling intricately formatted Microsoft Word files as TextMaker 2006.

PlanMaker 2006 reads and writes Microsoft Excel files (Excel 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, Excel 2003, and Excel for Apple Macintosh) with the highest fidelity, ensuring easy and safe file exchange with Microsoft Excel users. Thanks to the exceptional quality of our Excel filters, you can even set PlanMaker's default file format to Excel's .XLS format.

New in TextMaker 2006: imports OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument, opens protected Word files, supports Unicode, SmartText, extended table formatting, comprehensive drawing and graphic functions built in, and much more.

New in PlanMaker 2006: Unicode support, create and fill out forms with input fields, checkboxes, selection boxes etc., input validation, and much more.

Reads and writes all Microsoft Word and Excel files seamlessly, reads StarOffice, OpenOffice.org and OpenDocument files; AutoShapes and WordArt compatible; Unicode support, tracked changes and comments like in Word 2003, and much more

Any Linux or FreeBSD PC

Please contact SoftMaker Office for Linux and FreeBSD publisher, SoftMaker Software GmbH if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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