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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $59.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7
- Date added: December 01, 2009
- Total Downloads: 238,133
- Downloads last week: 1,311
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 196 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Though not quite as robust, this productivity suite makes a decent alternative to the ubiquitous Microsoft office. Most average users won't have a problem operating both TextMaker and PlanMaker, which look very similar to Word and Excel respectively. Both of these utilities have all the features you might expect, though it may take a bit of patience to get used to the different arrangement of them. Also, when we tried to launch DataMaker and Basic Script from the toolbar in the word-processing program, we got error messages, which is a bit discomforting. And if you're looking for an office suite with a built in e-mail client or PowerPoint functionality, you won't find it here. Still, if you seek a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office and only work with Excel and Word, there's no reason not to give Ashampoo Office 2005 a chance.Publisher's description
From Ashampoo :Ashampoo Office 2010 is a powerful, efficient, yet easy to handle office software that serves the needs of both private users and companies. Create extensive documents fast and with total ease, streamline and enhance your spreadsheets with meaningful charts, and grab your audience's attention with multimedia-based presentations - and pay less. Ashampoo Office 2010 provides you with the most important applications for home and office use alike. Ashampoo TextMaker 2010 assists you for example in writing serial letters, printing envelopes or designing flyers/posters. Ashampoo PlanMaker 2010 on the other hand offers more than 330 calculation functions for different areas as well as a powerful chart module that turns your numbers into colorful yet precise charts. With Ashampoo Presentations 2010 you are able to create multimedia-based presentations that will catch your audience's attention in not time. The program now also features animations and transitions based on DirectX technology. Ashampoo Office 2010 offers superior compatibility to Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice, i.e. it reads and writes Word, Excel and PowerPoint files with highest accuracy. And best of all: you can simply install Ashampoo Office 2010 on a USB stick--and never leave your home without your office suite ever again. No matter if you're a beginner or a pro: with Ashampoo Office 2010 you will always achieve perfect results fast and easy - in office as well as at home.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.0 supports Microsoft Office 2007 DOCX and XLSX files, generates presentation quality charts and graphs.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 196 votes
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Version: Ashampoo Office 2010 4.0
"product is OK, but this company sells your email...."
Pros: great trial if you dont mind getting emails from homeplacement.org and other crap inbox fillers
Cons: selling my info
Summary: companies that falsely claim to "never give your email address to other companies" should be boycotted and also should be questioned on selling more than just our emails..........not happy
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Version: Ashampoo Office 2010 4.0
"Totally AWESOME and the Price? Top of the line for less"
Pros: ease of use with functions that are easy to use and you get dramatic results. I had version 2008 and it was great, this version leads the pack!
Cons: would like to see a save to disk feature.
Summary: After using Open Office.or and Microsoft Office I couldn't pass up this product for the price and all of it's features and simplicity of use. Fliers and Bulletins are a breeze, and you can "re-due" for the next one with all your changes and add-ins.... read more >>
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Version: Ashampoo Office 2010 4.0
"SoftMaker Office 2010, stripped down and rebranded"
Pros: This is a stripped down, rebranded version of SoftMaker Office 2010.
It is still a very good product.
It is well featured, very stable and runs at lightning speed.
So forget the unstable OpenOffice 3 and those awful Asian Microsoft pastiches.
It goesCons: The SoftMaker version comes with BasicMaker, a feature you may not need, but Softmaker give good manufacturer support.
Softmaker is dearer but you get 3 licences.
A big downside with Ashampoo, is the flood of sales emails for all their other productsSummary: Do try this but also download SoftMaker Office 2010 for a true comparison.
My final preference was for the SoftMaker version.
I now prefer using it to Microsoft Office, in the same way that I prefer Firefox to IE.
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Version: Ashampoo Office 2010 4.0
"Give me a chance to use it before asking my opinion"
Pros: Ask me again when I have had an opportunity to try it out
Cons: How do I know? Why ask within minutes of the download completing? come back in a few months
Summary: Again, untill I get a chance to use the software how can I judge it?
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Version: Ashampoo Office 2010 4.0
"Nice Office programe its very easy to use"
Pros: It appears to work fatser than the all the other products I have used.
I do a lot with spreed sheets.Cons: Can't think of any at the moment
Summary: I thought the price was reasonable and as I have memtioned it is nice and easy to use I only use this for personal use.
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