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The ultimate guide to free software: Admin

21/07/2008 send to a friend

Our friends at The PC Support Group are back again with the fifth of their 7 point guide to free software. This week, they look for free software that can help you with your admin and save you money.

Most people use their computers for a fairly basic set of functions: viewing/creating documents using a word processor, tables and calculations using a spreadsheet tool and presentations. All of these are usually combined into a suite of software with the most well known being Microsoft’s Office.

The best free alternative to this is Open Office. You can download this from www.openoffice.org. Importantly, all the programs in this suite of software can read and write to formats that are compatible with Microsoft Office.

Photo credit: Flickr user, Charl van Niekerk.

Phil Bird
The PC Support Group

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