The most recent Office Applications articles from Computeract!ve

OOIntegrator Openoffice plug-in

Tim Smith — 2008-07-01T14:28:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 1 July 2008 at 14:28:00

Edit online documents with Openoffice

Online office suites are great tools when accessing documents from different computers, but online editors are still no match for a specific program on a computer....

OxygenOffice Pro 2.4.1

Tim Smith — 2008-06-25T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 25 June 2008 at 00:00:00

OpenOffice based premium office suite

OpenOffice is a very capable office suite but it does lack some of the multimedia elements of some alternatives such as clip art....

Nitro PDF Professional 5

Tim Smith — 2008-06-18T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 18 June 2008 at 00:00:00

Create PDF documents quickly and easily

PDF documents are great for sharing when the layout and fonts may not appear on a recipients computer in the same way they do on yours....

Powerpoint Getting Started Tab

Tim Smith — 2008-06-04T14:34:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 4 June 2008 at 14:34:00

Quickly find help when using Powerpoint

Finding answers to questions can be difficult with computers, even if you remember to press F1. The Getting Started Tab for Powerpoint gathers together links to help both online and...

Freemind 0.9.1 build 17

Tim Smith — 2008-05-30T12:46:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 30 May 2008 at 12:46:00

The latest version of this mindmapping software with new features

Freemind is a mindmapping program that helps organise thoughts and plans. Like many opensource projects there are two versions, the stable for day to day use and the unstable work in...

Ribbon Customizer Professional

Tim Smith — 2008-05-27T16:46:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 27 May 2008 at 16:46:00

Take control of the Office 2007 Ribbon

Office 2007 made a radical break from the past by replacing the old menus and toolbars with the dynamic Ribbon....

Word Getting Started Ribbon Tab

Tim Smith — 2008-05-15T10:10:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 15 May 2008 at 10:10:00

Find help for Microsoft Word with the Ribbon

This is the software pubisher's description: This add-in adds a Get Started tab to the Word 2007 Ribbon. Commands on this tab give you easy access to free content on...

Freemind 0.8.1

Tim Smith — 2008-05-06T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 6 May 2008 at 00:00:00

Create attractive mind maps for planning, revision and organising thoughts

Mindmapping is a process for organising ideas and facts that uses both sides of the brain. This helps learning because it is easier to remember facts and they can be...

Mindjet MindManager Viewer

Tim Smith — 2008-03-28T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 28 March 2008 at 00:00:00

View and print MindManager mindmaps

Just like Microsoft Office, there are times when you might be sent a file but not have the software to view it with....

Evernote Version 2

Tim Smith — 2008-02-28T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 28 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Keep and organise all your digital notes in one place

Organising information is a big challenge, and computers seem to have made the problem worse by putting so much information in our hands....

Cayra.NET Mindmapping software

Tim Smith — 2008-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 5 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Visualise your ideas

Cayra.NET is a free mindmapping program. Mindmapping can be helpful when brainstorming or planning as it is easier to visualise ideas and to move them around....

UK's Kalender 2.1.5

Tim Smith — 2007-11-29T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 29 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Never miss an appointment

Unless you have access to Outlook, it can be difficult to find good diary software. UK's Kalender was specifically written to fill this gap and offers a very convenient The...

Password Safe

Tim Smith — 2007-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 21 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Keep all of your passwords in one safe place

Whether the answer is one or hundreds, Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list....

Sciral Consistency: Personal Planner

Tim Smith — 2007-11-19T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 19 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Keep track of regular tasks

Sciral Consistency is a useful little utility for keeping track of regular jobs, be they daily or weekly. Tasks are listed in rows with dates forming the columns....

Planner for Windows

Tim Smith — 2007-10-26T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 26 October 2007 at 00:00:00

Organise projects with this free software from Gantt

If more than one person is working on a task or project it can get a little tricky to organise who is doing what and in what order....