Free Office Tools

If you do not want to buy or can not afford to buy Microsoft Office then the best option is to download OpenOffice. OpenOffice is a free Office Software Suite that contains word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, graphics, databases and more. It supports many languages and works on most computers. It is easy to learn and use. If you have used other office software then you will have no problems learning this software, since Open Office has many similarities with Microsoft Office.

Components

OpenOffice is a collection of programs that work together to form an office software suite. Many of these components are very similar to those avaiable in Microsoft Office.

The components include:

Writer - is a word processor that is similar to Microsoft Word or WordPerfect, which comes with many tools and functions. It also has the ability to export Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Calc – is a spreadsheet to Microsoft Excel, which has the same range of tools and features. Calc has the ability of writing spreadsheets directly as a PDF file.

Impress – is a presentation program similar to Microsoft PowerPoint, which can export presentations to Adobe Flash (SWF) files. It has the ability to read Microsoft PowerPoint's format, and create PDF files.

Base – is a database program similar to Microsoft Access, which can create databases, forms, and reports that make it easier for end-users.

Draw – is a vector graphics editor similar to early versions of CorelDraw. It has similar features to Microsoft Publisher.

Math – is a tool that can create and edit mathematical formulae, which is similar to Microsoft Equation Editor. This application supports multiple fonts and can export to PDF.

Download
OpenOffice.org

Free OCR - is a complete scan and OCR program including the Windows compiled Tesseract free ocr engine also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff’s, Adobe PDF and fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff’s which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It now has Twain and WIA scanning.

Free Language Translator - is a desktop language translator program by using the Google translation service. It adds more features to the existing service and addresses some of its shortcomings.