Free Office Software Until Dec. 31
December 25, 2009
I just tried the TextMaker component of SoftMaker Office 2008, and it seems to handle equations much better than Open Office does. According to reviewers (here and here), it plays nicer with Word files than Open Office does, too. I’ve had experience with .doc files mangled by Open Office — what a pain!
Until December 31, SoftMaker is running a free download-for-charity promotion:
That makes now a great time to test out the program. Thank you, Mike, for the tip!
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You should check out SSuite Office for a free alternative word processor. It has almost all the features of Word, and looks and works the same. {except for the ribbons}. Their word processor is called WordGraph.
It is also capable of creating and inserting math equations / expressions into documents. What is great about this new feature, is that the equations can be inserted as text or as an image.
It is only 12 MB in size. Nice and small
. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source software, so it makes their software very small and efficient.
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/wordgraph.htm
Thank you for the tip. I will check it out.
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