No computer is properly complete without its own Office package. Office
assists in the compilation of texts of all kinds, in the completion of
spreadsheet calculations and in the preparation of expressive
presentations. In these tasks, Microsoft Office is the generally
accepted standard, as its formats are established and the functions it
offers are continually required. However: many users are unable to
afford the Office suite.
This is where the Ashampoo Office 2008 steps in. The program only
occupies a limited amount of storage space on the hard drive, is very
stable and still offers all of those Office functions which genuinely
need to be used in private or in business environments. A fair price
that all users can afford without problem also ensures that the Ashampoo
Office 2008 is rapidly winning new friends. Its simple menu prompting
and ease of use allows users of other Office solutions a problem-free
switchover.
Ashampoo TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations
As a word processing program, Ashampoo TextMaker is able to cope both
with long and short texts. The program is able to lay out a table of
contents, an index and tables, can import graphics and is also able to
place 3D texts. Thanks to the integrated addresses database, drafting
serial letters presents no problem. Web pages are also easy to create
using the program. The program has also won considerable praise thanks
to its very high quality spell check system.
With Ashampoo PlanMaker, number games of all kind no longer present any
problems. The spreadsheets offer countless formulae which are a great
help with automatic calculations. Its implementation of highlighted
columns of figures in expressive 2D and 3D diagrams is particularly
effective.
Ashampoo Presentations is a new product. The presentations program
brings images and texts together, and using the pre-sets, can easily
generate a visual presentation which can then be played back on the PC
monitor and can also easily be exported or printed out.
Ashampoo Office 2008: Now with PDF Export and Mailing Assistant
Lots of things have changed in the new Ashampoo Office 2008. And it
isn’t just down to the presentation program Ashampoo Presentations,
which is a completely new addition to Office.
A particular wish of users was PDF export, something which is now
available in all three programs. This means exporting content so that
users can open it and print it out is no longer a problem, as long as
s/he has installed the free Adobe Reader on their computer.
The object-based exchange of data between the three Office applications
is also brand new. This means PlanMaker tables can be easily integrated
into an Ashampoo TextMaker document, for instance. A single mouse click
on the object is enough at any time to be able to work on it in the
original application.
One great extra is the new mailing assistant which is immediately
available in Ashampoo TextMaker 2008. This helps in the printing of
envelopes and spares its owner the annoying sizing and positioning of
address fields.
Ashampoo Office 2008: Take it with you on a USB stick
Ashampoo Office 2008 has one decisive advantage over other office
suites. You can install it on a USB stick and take it with you wherever
you go. If you want to use another computer in the office, your laptop
at home, the PC in the hotel lobby or the Internet café terminal, it's
enough to just plug in the USB stick and continue your office work
seamlessly. Installation unnecessary.
Many users are already using this feature to always carry their most
important documents and the work environment they are used to with them.
An Overview of the Additional Functions
- improved master pages with texts
- bordering and shading whole pages
- page breaks now independent of printer
- improved import and export of Microsoft Word files
- the reading and also the exporting of OpenDocument files
- new template manager manages paragraph and line templates
- new print preview function to control the printed image prior to print out
- several pages (2, 4, 6, 8, 16) on a single printout to save paper
Just extract onto USB and run.
Tested and worked onall Windows OS.
