COMPANY: ThinkFree Corp. | URL: www.thinkfree.com | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $49.95
			ThinkFree Office 3 is a suite of Microsoft® Office compatible-applications. It includes word processing, spreadsheet and graphical presentation applications that let users create or edit their documents and files. This revolutionary software is platform independent and compatible with Windows, Linux and Macintosh systems; enabling almost anyone to use it-no matter what operating system they're running. Works 'WITH' Microsoft® Office... ThinkFree Office 3 is made-up of three applications: Write, Calc, and Show-none of which use proprietary file formats. Instead, all three of these applications use the same file formats as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint thus enabling extreme compatibility. Because ThinkFree Office 3 is created using Java technology, it requires little porting to make the software run on different operating systems. In fact, a single code base is used to produce the software that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux. This platform independence also insures that the User Interface and the documents created using the application will appear the same way, to all users. This is something no other office software can claim.   ...And Works 'LIKE' Microsoft® Office The ThinkFree Office 3 interface was designed to look, feel and behave like Microsoft® Office. Thus users minimize their learning curves and can rest assured that their documents will look the same in ThinkFree Office 3 as they do in Microsoft® Office-no matter what editing features they use.  Multi-language support The editing and viewing of documents in 11 languages is fully enabled. Languages include English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Chinese, and Japanese. Support for more languages is under development along with translated menus, dialog boxes and users guides.   Reduced Cost of Ownership ThinkFree Office 3 helps reduce Total Cost of Ownership for companies and other organizations in two ways. Firstly, the per-user license is much more affordable. And secondly, when ThinkFree Office 3 is hosted on corporate intranet servers, the software is launched from the server to the user's desktop via a Web browser. This eliminates the cost involved with installing and maintaining software on individual desktops. Excellent compatibilities in layout rendering Most popular and frequently used fonts in Office Software are Arial and Times New Roman which Linux does not provide. ThinkFree Office 3 on Linux provides these fonts   ThinkFree Office 3 Write uses the same file formats as Microsoft Word in order to maximize file compatibility. And because ThinkFree Office 3 Write is Java based, it is the first office suite to run seamlessly on all the most popular operating systems - Windows, Macintosh and Linux. ...And Works 'LIKE' Microsoft Office The ThinkFree Office 3 Write interface was designed to look, feel and behave like Microsoft Office. That way, users minimize their learning curve and can rest assured that their documents will look the same in ThinkFree Office 3 Write as they do in Microsoft® Office-no matter what editing features they use. Open and Save Microsoft Word documents The text formatting and rendering features of ThinkFree Office 3 Write ensure that the Microsoft Word documents opened in this program, will display correctly. Reversely, when a document is created in ThinkFree Office 3 Write it will render correctly in Microsoft Word. Repeated edits to a document, between the ThinkFree Office 3 Write and the Microsoft Word application are not likely to result in information loss. Familiar User Interface The menus, toolbars and editing screens of ThinkFree Office 3 Write are similar, both looks and function wise, to those found in Microsoft Word. Section-based Editing The latest version of ThinkFree Office 3 now supports advanced Microsoft Word formatting features such as the section editing capability, which facilitates the creation of documents with complex layouts. For instance you can easily create a document that mix different column layouts even on a single page. User Interface Compatibility Every office software has its own User Interface, which creates expensive learning curves for new users. However because Thinkfree Office 3 Show has almost the same User Interface as Microsoft PowerPoint, little to no retraining is necessary.   Works 'WITH' Microsoft PowerPoint The formatting and rendering features of ThinkFree Office 3 Show ensures that the Microsoft PowerPoint documents opened in this program, will display correctly. Reversely, when a document is created in ThinkFree Office 3 Show-it will render correctly in Microsoft PowerPoint. Repeated edits to a document, between the ThinkFree Office 3 Show and Microsoft PowerPoint applications, are not likely to result in information loss.   ...And Works 'LIKE' Microsoft PowerPoint The ThinkFree Office 3 Show interface was designed to look, feel and behave like Microsoft PowerPoint. That way, users minimize their learning curve and can rest assured that their documents will look the same in ThinkFree Office 3 Show as they do in Microsoft® PowerPoint-no matter what editing features they use. Familiar User Interface with enhanced look and feel ThinkFree Office 3 Show lets you feel at home by providing menus, toolbars and editing screens as similar as Microsoft Excel. Slide Master Because ThinkFree Office 3 Show distinguishes the Title Master page from the Slide Master page, you can easily insert images or content to all slides just by inserting them once into the Slide Master. This is of course identical to the functionality found in Microsoft PowerPoint. Open, Edit & Save Microsoft Excel documents ThinkFree Office 3 Calc can open and edit documents created by Microsoft Excel, and reversely documents created in ThinkFree Office 3 Calc can be opened and edited in Microsoft Excel. ThinkFree Office 3 Calc supports Excel 97 ~ 2003. New! Advanced Chart/Graph Compatibility It is extremely frustrating opening a chart, or graph, in one application and seeing it not render identically to the way it renders in its native application. This is the hurdle ThinkFree Office 3 Calc has proudly jumped. Now creating charts and graphs in ThinkFree Office 3 Calc is just like creating them in Microsoft Excel and your efforts can easily be viewed (as you intended them to be) in either program. Compatible Core Features ThinkFree Office 3 Calc is fully compatibility with the formulas, calculations, functions, charts and document layouts created by Microsoft Excel. Familiar User Interface Menus, toolbars and editing screens within ThinkFree Office 3 Calc look similar to those used in Microsoft Excel, so there is little to no learning curve required.