Finding User-Friendly Technology Programs That Everyone Can Use
If you are an average computer user or even the owner of a small business, finding software and business programs can be a hassle. The software that the big boys use (multimillion dollar corporations) can often be found on the shelf in the local electronics store, and some are dear and familiar. On the other hand, they can be unnecessarily expensive. A person who wishes to use Microsoft Word must pay close to 100 dollars for the software, and extra features such as a PDF creator cost a bundle as well. A complete Microsoft Office suite may ticket out to 500 or more. What is mostly being purchased is graphics, clip art, as well as the familiarity that college graduates have with it.
There are many alternative office software, and feature some astonishing new technologies for a pittance. Organizations exist on the web that develop free software, for their own benefit as well as everyone else. Microsoft Office has competition in OpenOffice.org, which is free and has the ability to create excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. It can create PDF’s, edit photos, and even build webpages with a decent HTML editor. It can even save documents to .doc format. What is lacks is clip art; it is a bare-bones program, in spite of high functionality. Its layout is different from Office, so it can be confusing.