IBM's free alternative office suite.
Luckily the users has a
free alternative to practically all the most popular pay applications. This is the case with
office suites, where we can find interesting options like
OpenOffice and
Lotus Symphony.
Lotus Symphony is a very intuitive and easy-to-use
office suite that is formed by the following modules:
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Lotus Symphony Documents, a text processor to create documents with text format with the possibility to insert graphics.
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Lotus Symphony Speadsheets, to create spreadsheets.
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Lotus Symphony Presentations, the application focus a the creation and editing of presentations.
The main
features of
Lotus Symphony are:
- Intuitive interface.
- Browse through the applications by means of tabs.
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Compatibility with the OpenOffice documents (ODF) and Microsoft Office (DOCX).
- Support to import files from Office 2007.
- Possibility to export the documents to
PDF formats and the presentations to PDF or
HTML.
- Support to protect the spreadsheets with a password.
Even though Microsoft Office
is still the main product in the business sector, don't miss the opportunity to try this
free office suite,
Lotus Symphony.