Star Office 8 - Is really an alternative to Microsoft word
Star Office is able with word processing, spreadsheet, and other office-oriented programs. Before partnership, Star Office has its cost nearly $70 to download; now Google is distributing it free-of-charge. Star Office 8 supports the Open Document standard. Star Office is basically invented against competition with Microsoft Office. It includes various tools like as Star Writer, StarCalc, Star Impress, Star Draw, and Star Base.
Star Office 8 Writer, makes a quick memos or reports with a table of contents, diagrams, and indexes. The Star Office enables with sample memos, faxes, letters, resumes and other documents, which makes your job easy. You can create your own custom templates. It can handle multi-page documents with ease having a simple page setup with using columns, text frames. The text flow tools to guide layout on every page. Star Office Writer also contains various tools for outlining, generating table of contents, indexing, and hyper linking.
Star Office Writer refines characters, paragraphs, and lists, which gives your document a professional look. If you want to draw a table on your document; just mention how many rows and columns you want, it will automatically create. Now you can customize your document pages like a newspaper, a web page, a movie preview, or even a screen. You have to just mix and match graphics, tables, charts, Java applications, or video animations.
One excellent feature is that it converts documents created in Microsoft Word document into Star Office Writer and vice versa. AutoComplete tool suggests common words and phrases. Auto Spell check provides spelling corrections. AutoFormat guides about document formatting. Format Paintbrush is directly transfer all formatting from one set of text and objects to another. You can Drag & Drop text, tables, and objects at where you need.
With the help of Star Office 8 Calc, you can calculate, analyze, and share your data quickly and easily. Star Office Calc simply clarifies data and allows you to chart it for others to easily understand. It is Calc documents convert instantly into Microsoft Excel. It provides you 275 pre-defined, field-tested functions; we can call these as formulas. For that you need not to be proficient in mathematical or logical thinking, banking, or statistical analysis. Calc provides you 13 types of charts enable with bar, pie, line, scatter, area, and stock charts.
Star Office 8 Impress is a full-featured presentation tool which preformatted templates, Flash export and support for Custom Shapes. It has all the features that other office suites have but still it avoid the high cost. Star Office Impress has lots of set of slide templates with text topics and logic flow for various purposes. In addition, you can create your own slides or templates as well as creates master slides.
You can create presentations by simply dragging and dropping Star Office Calc spreadsheets and charts directly into Impress slides. Star Office Impress supports you flexibility in font formatting. It also has a Font work tool that helps you to create 2D and 3D fonts with flexible curves, shading, and color fill options. You can give animation effects to images and texts. You can mix audio, video, graphics, spreadsheets, and tables from other Star Office files in your presentations.
Star Office 8 Draw, helps you to create organizational charts, network diagrams, floor plans and sketches, and lots more. Star Office Draw provides 87 different advanced vector graphics as AutoShapes, with shape-adjustment handlers, 3-D options, fill and shading tools. Now you can play with colors, gradients, textures, transparency, bitmaps, and shadows also can create simple 3-D objects and merge them.
You can easily create "self-contained" database documents with relevant data, tables, reports, and forms by using Star Office 8 Base. Star Office 8 Base supports you choice of various 11-database formats. You can create table for database query results. You can create forms and sub forms to input, monitor, and update information.Google, Google Pack, Star Office 8, features of Star Office 8,
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