• Text processing, Spreadsheet & Co. •
Good Office Software is also freely available and usable!
OpenOffice.org (Open Source)
OpenOffice.org is a complete Office Suite with Programs for text processing (Writer), Spreadsheet (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.
OpenOffice.org is available for Linux, Windows, MAC OS X and Solaris.
More projects: The PrOOo-Box - Available language packs: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Unfortunately the website is only available in German but you can translate it (e.g. to English) thru the Google Language Tools. Supported Operating Systems: Linux and Windows.
Visit the OpenOffice.org Portable Project.
Visit the OpenOffice.org Hompage.
Tip: If you want to send job applications via eMail, don't send your Office documents! Create PDF files and send them, maybe they have other Office applications as you have and then there will be a compatibility problem. PDF files will be presented on every computer without these problems!
OxygenOffice (Open Source)
OxygenOffice (based on OpenOffice.org and Go-oo) is for Linux and Windows Operating Systems. 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. This Office package is available for Linux and Windows in English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian (all integrated within the multilingual version) and more languages.
Visit the OxygenOffice Homepage.
GnomeOffice (Open Source)
Evolution - eMail and organisation (like Outlook from M$).
Evince - Viewer for Postscript documents like PDF, PS and TIFF.
AbiWord - Simple and proffesional word processing. AbiWord works also with other Linux desktop environments like KDE and Xfce. It's also available for Windows (2000 and newer), FreeBSD, Solaris and more Systems. Compatibility: Read and write HTML, XML, XLS (MS Excel) and ODT (OpenOffice), you can save documents as PDF. More than 60 languages are already integrated. If you need AbiWord for to go, get it from PortableApps.
Gnumeric - is a spreadsheet application which can import formats like HTML, XML, XLS and SXC. All the functions you (maybe) know from M$ Excel are available and you can export your sheets to HTML, XML, XLS, CSV, and PDF.
Sure, you can also use the complete OpenOffice Suite which is alredy integrated in some Linux distributions with GNOME (e.g. Ubuntu, Dreamlinux and Mandriva).
Visit the GnomeOffice Homepage.
KOffice (Open Source)
KOffice is the Office Suite for Unix/Linux with KDE.
Visit the KOffice Homepage.
NeoOffice (Open Source)
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.
Jarte (Freeware)
Jarte is a free word processor with a tabbed interface for Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP and Vista. 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.
Tomahawk PDF+ (Freeware)
Tomahawk PDF+ is similar to WordPad from Microsoft but with a lot of more features like PDF-Export.
Visit the Tomahawk PDF+ Homepage.
Angel Writer (Freeware)
Angel Writer is a free word processor for Windows which is similar to Microsoft Word.
Visit the Angel Writer Homepage.
GnuCash (Open Source)
GnuCash is a comprehensive financial-accounting software package for small-business and individuals.
For UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, BSD and Solaris.
Visit the GnuCash Homepage.
Get GnuCash for portable media from PortableApps.
Scribus (Open Source)
Scribus is Desktop Publishing for UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows.
Visit the Scribus Homepage.
Get Scribus for portable Media.
Some Texteditors for the quick text processing but also for source code editing:
For Windows Operating Systems:
PSPad - is my prefered HTML source code editor for to go and for that reason PSPad is always present on my pendrive.
Notepad2 - is my prefered Texteditor, always present on my pendrive.
Notepad++ - is a very good text and source code editor with multi-pane view, tabbed-interface, clickable links and a lot of plug-ins.
jEdit - is a very good text and source code editor with multiple-pane view, macro-function a lot of plug-ins for UNIX/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and VMS.
SciTE - A very good text and source code 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 Texteditor.
Kate - is the official KDE Texteditor.
Leafpad - is another Texteditor for GNOME (GTK+).
KWrite - is another Texteditor for KDE.
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