Office - Text processing, Spreadsheet & Co.

LibreOffice is a complete Office Suite with Programs for text processing (Writer), Spreadsheets (Calc), Presentations (Impress) and data bases (Base). Programs to compute with equations and formulas (Math) and graphic manipulation (Draw) are also integrated. Standard: You can easily export documents to PDF and you can select between different preferences like write protection for your PDF documents.

Available for Linux, Windows 2000 - 7 and MAC OS X.

Visit the LibreOffice Hompage.

Get LibreOffice Portable for Windows: PortableApps

Get LibreOffice Portable for Linux 32-bit: PortableLinuxApps

Why LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.org? Have a look at this site: The Document Foundation. Also interesting is the chapter about Governance within this Wikipedia Artcle about OpenOffice.

Tip: If you want to send job applications via eMail, don't send your Office documents! Create and send PDF files cause maybe they have other Office applications as you have. In that case there will be compatibility problems. PDF files will be presented on every computer without these problems!

OxygenOffice Professional (based on OpenOffice.org and Go-oo) is for Linux and Windows Operating Systems in English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian (all integrated within the multilingual version) and more languages. All components of the OpenOffice Suite are integrated but the OxygenOffice team added a lot of free photos and cliparts (more than 3000), templates and fonts.

Visit the OxygenOffice project page.

Office for Kids aged between 7 and 12 years for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Visit the OOo4Kids Homepage.

KOffice is the Office Suite for Unix/Linux with KDE.

Visit the KOffice Homepage.

NeoOffice (based on OpenOffice.org) is a complete Office Suite for MAC OS X.

Visit the NeoOffice Homepage.

More informations and comparisons (free and none-free Office packages): Wikipedia.

Simple and proffesional word processing! AbiWord works with Linux desktop environments like GNOME, KDE and Xfce. It's also available for Windows (2000 and newer), FreeBSD, Solaris and more Systems. Compatibility: Read and write HTML, XML, XLS (MS Excel) and ODT (OpenOffice), you can save documents as PDF. More than 60 languages are already integrated. If you need AbiWord for to go, get it from PortableApps.

Visit the Homepage of AbiWord.

Jarte is a free word processor with a tabbed interface for Windows XP - 7. It's available as executable for a normal installation and within an archive for simple extract and run, also on portable devices. Furthermore it's fully compatible with Microsoft Word and WordPad.

Visit the Jarte Homepage.

Writer is a free word processor for Windows XP - 7 which is similar to Microsoft Word.

Visit the Light Writer Homepage.

Tomahawk PDF+ is similar to WordPad from Microsoft but with a lot of more features like PDF-Export. Compatible with Windows 9x - 2003.

Visit the Tomahawk PDF+ Homepage.

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application which can import formats like HTML, XML, XLS and SXC. All the functions you (maybe) know from M$ Excel are available and you can export your sheets to HTML, XML, XLS, CSV, and PDF. Gnumeric is available for UNIX/Linux with GNOME and Windows, supporting a lot of languages.

Visit the Gnumeric Homepage.

Gnumeric for portable media: PortableApps, view Screenshots!

If you want a free full Office Suite, take the LibreOffice Suite (Top of the page)!

AM-Notebook - PIM (PIM = Personal Information Manager) including Spreadsheets. Portable

Thunderbird - eMail client with support for a lot of add-ons like Lighting which integrates calendar functions. Thunderbird is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is also available as a portable app for Windows.

i.Scribe - Calendar, contacts, eMail and more for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

EssentialPIM Free - Calendar, contacts, reminder, eMail and more for Windows is also available as a portable app for removable media like USB pen-sticks.

Opera Mail is integrated within the Opera browser.

Evolution - eMail and organisation for UNIX/Linux systems with GNOME.

Kontact is the PIM for UNIX/Linux with KDE.

GNUMail is for Mac OS X, Linux and BSD systems.

You can also pin some yellow notes onto your Desktop!

Comprehensive financial-accounting software for small-enterprises and individuals.

For UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP - 7, BSD and Solaris.

Visit the GnuCash Homepage.

Get GnuCash for portable media from PortableApps.

Personal finance and budget software.

Compatible with Windows NT - 7.

Visit the Metalogic Finance Explorer Homepage.

Get Metalogic Finance Explorer for portable media from PortableApps.

Scribus is Desktop Publishing for UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows 2000 - 7.

Visit the Scribus Homepage.

Get Scribus for portable Media.

Visit my HTML related page to find more good source code editors!

For Windows Operating Systems:

PSPad - My prefered source code editor for to go, always present on my pendrive!

Notepad2 - is my prefered text editor for to go, always present on my pendrive!

Notepad++ - is my prefered text editor (lots of features) under Windows!

Geany - Beside Gedit my prefered text editor under Linux! Other platforms: Windows, Mac, ... .

jEdit - Another good text editor for UNIX/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and VMS.

SciTE - A very good text editor for Linux and Windows.

TaterEdit - Incl. FTP-Client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

TEA - Text editor for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows.

For Linux Operating Systems:

Gedit - is the official GNOME text editor.

Kate - is the official KDE text editor.

Leafpad - is another text editor for GNOME (GTK+).

KWrite - is another text editor for KDE.

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