The most recent Office Applications articles from What PC?

Sun StarOffice 6

Anthony Smith — 2002-09-09T15:02:32.000Z

Anthony Smith, What PC?, Monday 9 September 2002 at 15:02:32

At a fraction of the price of market leader Microsoft Office, StarOffice is an attractive option for the cost-conscious user.

In place of a review, we could have printed a comparative table highlighting the strengths and deficiencies of StarOffice against those of Microsoft Office, the undisputed market leader in office...

Abbyy FineReader Professional 6.0

Cliff Joseph — 2002-08-29T14:00:17.000Z

Cliff Joseph, What PC?, Thursday 29 August 2002 at 14:00:17

Low-cost OCR software that converts printed pages into editable text and graphics files.

Optical character recognition (OCR) software is very much a niche market. Most people will never need to do any OCR work at all.But if you do find you need to...

Microsoft Works Suite 2002

Andy Gordon — 2002-07-02T12:46:30.000Z

Andy Gordon, What PC?, Tuesday 2 July 2002 at 12:46:30

A well-balanced suite that works out cheaper than buying components individually.

For home-office workers Microsoft offers three varied suites of software. At the top end is Office XP, which includes Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint and costs over £400....

Platform 77 uKreate

Ben Lewis — 2002-05-10T11:35:39.000Z

Ben Lewis, What PC?, Friday 10 May 2002 at 11:35:39

Incorporate data, images and sound into one combined medium.

If you want to present information nowadays, by far the most efficient method is by using your PC. The latest addition to the range of multimedia presentation tools is uKreate...

Ability Office 2002

Ben Lewis — 2002-05-08T12:11:24.000Z

Ben Lewis, What PC?, Wednesday 8 May 2002 at 12:11:24

If you can't quite stretch to Microsoft Office, here's an excellent alternative that's big on features and small on price.

Ability Office has long held court as a viable alternative to Microsoft's comparatively expensive market leader. The suite of essential office tools has just been upgraded and Ability Office 2002...

MS Office X for Macintosh

Cliff Joseph — 2002-03-13T14:29:19.000Z

Cliff Joseph, What PC?, Wednesday 13 March 2002 at 14:29:19

A nice upgrade that makes the most of the X factor.

Apple is planning to ditch the current Mac operating system in about six months' time and replace it on new machines with the shiny new OS X....

Microsoft Works Suite 2001

Paul Wardley — 2001-01-10T24:00:00.000Z

Paul Wardley, What PC?, Wednesday 10 January 2001 at 00:00:00

For the home user looking for a suite of standard applications, this versatile package is great value for money and very easy to learn.

Unless you've been interested in computers for a long time and have a good memory, the concept of an integrated package might need some explaining....

Microsoft Mac Office 2001

Chris Cain — 2001-01-01T24:00:00.000Z

Chris Cain, What PC?, Monday 1 January 2001 at 00:00:00

The most Mac-like Office yet, with email facilities provided by Entourage and a whole raft of templates from the Project Gallery.

While PC users enjoy a much larger selection of software than their Mac-owning cousins, an increasing number of major titles are starting to appear on both platforms simultaneously....

Lernout & Hauspie Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5

Jim Haryott — 2000-11-29T24:00:00.000Z

Jim Haryott, What PC?, Wednesday 29 November 2000 at 00:00:00

The latest version of this voice recognition program requires minimal training and has welcome features for newcomers and old hands alike.

NaturallySpeaking 5 from Belgian voice recognition giant Lernout and Hauspie has been specifically designed for the UK market. It promises increased accuracy and better integration with the internet and email...

Redrock Technologies FaxNow! 2000

Richard McPartland — 2000-02-01T24:00:00.000Z

Richard McPartland, What PC?, Tuesday 1 February 2000 at 00:00:00

Microsoft removed the fax functionality of Windows 95 when it released Windows 98. FaxNow! 2000 more than fills the gap, providing comprehensive and easy-to-use fax functions from your PC.

Although Windows 95 came with an optional fax utility, Microsoft chose not to include this feature in Windows 98, leaving third parties to take up the baton instead....

Caere Omnipage Pro 10

Jonathan Parkyn — 2000-02-01T24:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, What PC?, Tuesday 1 February 2000 at 00:00:00

This latest version of Caere's optical character recognition (OCR) software, Omnipage Pro, has powerful features and gives great accuracy.

Omnipage Pro 10 has an entirely new OCR engine from its predecessor. Together with new dictionaries and an extended capacity to understand compound and non-English words, Caere claims the software...