Applixware Word processor, Spreadsheet, Database, Presentation manager, E-mail Applix is one of the earliest commercial office packages that was available for Linux. Siag Office offers most features required for basic word processing and spreadsheeting. The enhancements are there, and they are just as ‘unlivable without’ as features introduced in other versions, except that there are not that many of them. The Task Pane allows you to search for text in different files, Outlook folders, images that match a certain description, look at the 24 items in the clipboard to select and paste any, translate selected text to other languages (if their dictionaries are installed) and perform a mail merge. To have any text read out to you, just copy and paste it in the ReadPlease window. Once you copy text to clipboard, go to the Text Menu and choose Add text from clipboard. Also, as mentioned earlier, make sure your sound files are embedded into your presentations or you will have to copy each sound file along with your presentation. Better-Text to Mp3 let’s you covert text files to MP3s, WAV or WMA formats.

A neat feature of the application is that it has a built-in text parser for DOC, HTML and XML files, so only the text in these documents will be converted to audio. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. When any application is started up without loading a document, the Task Pane appears with a list of previously opened documents and templates for new documents. Siag Office is one of the earliest free office application suites available for Linux. It has all the components of a basic office suite and ran natively on Linux. Another deviation from the past trend is that this time the icons for all the applications are not changed from its previous version, Office 2000. MS had in the past introduced cooler looking icons for applications in each version. To ensure security, the default settings in all applications prevent digitally unsigned macros from executing. This minor ‘disappointment’ is overcome as soon as you start up one of the applications. Office 2000 introduced the ability of all applications to be saved in HTML format. Graphics: Native format “.egon”, Magic Point and HTML. To highlight the best selling point of the new Office, Ahuja gave us a humorous anecdote. Ahuja pointed out that Office 2013 will become this man’s best friend in future, because all he would need would be just one device.

It also has a speed slider, which can be dragged up and down to increase or decrease the speed at which your text is read out. Please try it out yourself and let us know what your opinions are! Are the sources of the solar wind steady or intermittent? It lets you search YouTube and other sources for live videos, which can then be embedded and viewed right from within Word itself! The collaborative features in Word have always been pretty useful. AbiWord is an excellent word processor that is almost at production level. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 22, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. I could also have selected all the ‘Heading 2’ text and applied a completely different style to it if I wished. For example, I modified the ‘Heading 2’ style used in this document to ‘Verdana, 12pt, Italics’ by simply selecting Modify.

For example, when you type in a date like April 8, 2001, a line of small red dots underlines it. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and usage varies substantially among organizations. This lets you perform various actions without leaving sight of your current document. You can also modify the style itself throughout the document. An added feature in MS PowerPoint XP is that you can even adjust the volume for each of your sound effects. For each slide you’ll have to record a narration and insert it as a sound file. Also, you can make the sound file run automatically when a slide comes up. This means that presenters will be able to change the slide sequence and make notes behind curtains without interrupting the flow of the presentation. Next, click on the Slide Show menu and choose Custom Animation. Once you have inserted the appropriate sound files in each slide, make sure you do a few test runs to make sure the narration for one slide finishes before the next slide comes up. It’s easy to forget certain items when making purchases manually at physical locations leading to last-minute runs which can be stressful and frustrating.