EasyOffice Premium  

An easy to use office suite bundled with all kinds of utilities that you would need while working in your office. Other than the standard components, it also contains messaging and security tools

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

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The package consists of EasyWord, EasyMail, EasySpreadsheet, and EasyPresentation.nstalling it is pretty straight forward, and it can run on all Windows versions including XP Pro and 2003 server. The office suite can read the corresponding documents from MS Office.  The names are pretty much self explanatory.

EasyWord has pretty good features, including the ability to create chapters  and a real-time dictionary that appears in a small window. As soon as you type or click on any word, it will show the meaning of that word instantly. It has a PDF filter to create PDF files. Few things we missed in the package were support for macros and features like track changes that are there in MS Word. EasyWord can save files in DOC, XML, TXT, BOC, RTF and PDF. XML support does not currently work. EasyWord let's you upload your documents to a FTP server using FileZilla. EasySpreadsheet (like MS Excel) can open and save XLS files, but cannot read charts, wordart and pictures from Excel files. EasySpredsheet can read basic formulae used in an Excel file though. It also has its own propritery ESS file format. EasyVoice is for voice recognition. Once trained, it lets you navigate the web by voice, and allows you to control many EasyOffice and Windows programs by voice commands. Training EasyVoice is easy using its wizard like interface. Its companion application (EasySpeaker) can speak as you type, or read out any text file.

EasyOffice bundles MS Office-like applications to smooth the learning-curve

EasyMail client has anti-spam, and anti-adware capabilities built in. It also comes with an EasyAntivirus. The mail client is similar to Outlook in terms of features. You can import all your email addresses from MS Outlook, transfer your contacts to your PDA or mobile phone using a utility called EasyPDA. It doesn't let you import mails from any other email clients like Mozilla or Eudora mail.

The VOIP feature enables voice chat between two computers using the third party Skype and EasySpeak. Gaim instant messenger has also been bundled with EOP.Coming to EasyPresentation, it's not as powerful as MS PowerPoint. You can open PowerPoint files in it, but you can only save them in its own proprietary ezp format. To create a presentation in this application, you have to go through a wizard. Editing options for a created presentation are also limited. EasyOffice also comes with an application for creating Web pages called EasyWebPageCreator, and there's EasyWebCapture for downloading complete websites. For this it uses WinHTTrack Website copier, which is apparently another third party software.

EasyOffice also ships with GIMP, the popular graphics package with Photoshop like features such as layers, channels, filters, etc. It supports plenty of formats including bmp, jpeg, psd, tiff etc Another Graphic tool available in EOP is InkScape. An interesting application available in EOP is EasyBarcode, which can create and print barcode labels. That's not all, EOP also has EasyZip for zipping files, EasyBackup for backing up and restoring files. The backup utility isn't just meant for EasyOffice files, but for any file. A talking calculator is also bundled, which can speak and print results. A utility for translating languages is available as well but we found it of no use because it didn't do any conversion between languages. Another intersting thing is that many of its features like voice, calculator, calender etc can be acessed from within the main office applications.

Bottom Line: Overall, given the price, and the extra bundled goodies, the product is worth it.

Swapnil Arora

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