IBM Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet application that lets you work professionally and efficiently with numbers. You can use live Web information and perform its analysis using the Web tables. Features such as SmartFill and SmartLabels predict what you want to perform before you even type in commands. This application sets a cost-effective desktop productivity program, attends to the needs of both users and enterprise, increases employee productivity and allows exchange of documents to and from business applications. Its productivity features cover speech-enabled SmartMaster templates, Microsoft Excel compatibility, move and copy worksheets, SmartLabels, automatic SmartFill, more rows with up to 65,536 rows, Ask the Expert feature for user’s questions, Excel MenuFinder, Euro currency support, copy and paste, data validation add-in, auto save and keyboard switching. Internet integration features include Web tables, hyperlinking, HTML features, publishing assistant and HTML on clipboard.
The OpenOffice.org Chart is an Openoffice application used for the creation of charts for any project. This Chart application is usually included in the OpenOffice.org Calc component and this application is currently being upgraded with new features in different versions. This application was also developed by Apache and is also used to open SDS files. In fact, this OpenOffice.org charting system uses SDS files in order to be opened from various operating systems. New versions of this charting software feature additional shapes, providing users with more options when creating their charts. Other versions feature reverse axes which is used to change the axes directions, allowing users to have the option of where the lower or the higher values should be displayed. This chart application normally has a 3D effects dialog but newer versions have improved this feature and concentrated more on chart-relevant features as well as the illumination default features were also changed, creating a simpler 3D look.
The OpenOffice.org Calc is a component belonging to the OpenOffice.org suite of applications and it is the component that is similar to Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet. This is also a spreadsheet program that users can use to create and save spreadsheet data wherein it contains several features that differ to that of the Excel spreadsheet. OpenOffice.org Calc features a data pilot technology wherein raw data is pulled from corporate databases and then the data is converted, summarized and cross-tabulated into meaningful data. It has natural language formulas that allow users to use words when creating formulas and it is also equipped with an intelligent sum button wherein users are allowed to automatically insert a sum function. Its styles and formatting allow users to be experts in his or her spreadsheet because of its cell formatting options that are flexible. This application also has a Calc solver feature that allows the solving of problems by calculating the spreadsheet cell’s optimum value based on the cell constraints provided. Calc can also open files from Microsoft Excel.
Corel has developed this software for almost thirty years. This Office suite became popular to the people. And this software works on Microsoft operating systems such as Windows, Window 7, Windows Vista and Windows Xp (SP3). 466 MHz processor, 256 RAM and for the display 800 X 600 will be just fine to operate on this application. During installation, Internet connection may require to verify the serial numbers. It can support 60 different formats including the Microsoft Office Formats. It also supports multiple monitors to improve the productivity of the user. This packed application comes with learning resources that is built-in, so tutorials are very handy. It has a feature that will resize the text to fit the number of pages. The users can view the desired file without opening the file. It has 300 + templates, 175+ photos, 10,000 clipart images, and 900+ True Type fonts. This package has word processors, Spreadsheet program, presentations, Digital Notebook, document manager, training videos, Video editor, and eBook publisher.
NeoOffice was developed by PLanamesa Software wherein it is known as an office suite for MAC OS X. It is equivalent to OPenOffice.org as well as Microsoft Office, but it is exclusively created for MAC OS X as this was conceptualized when there was still no OpenOffice suite available for MAC computers. NeoOffice also includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database program, graphics, and a formula program. This office suite also supports a variety of file formats for every application within the suite. For instance, the word processor also supports files created using MS Word, StarWriter, etc. as well as their spreadsheet also supports files created using MS Excel, StarCalc, etc. Neooffice has a lot of features that make users create whatever types of projects using this application easier and more enjoyable such as the NeoOffice Mobile for securely sharing NeoOffice files with other users in their computers by simply publishing a NeoOffice document to the server for NeoOffice Mobile. This allows users from different computers and mobile devices to browse and view these files securely.