Top 5 Free Suites to Replace Microsoft Office

Rarely do small business and home users need all of the features that are included in the powerful Microsoft Office suite of products. Microsoft Office is the industry leader in office productivity software, but many free alternatives exist that will satisfy the needs of most small business and home users. This gives cost-conscious business owners a way to save money while maintaining productivity.

Open source office products will include many of the features of costly programs and support all of the major file type, including Microsoft file types. The free suites will include the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software that businesses need. Many also include other programs like drawing applications and database tools.

If you need to cut costs, here are five feature rich office programs that you might try.

VIDEO How To: Page Numbering in Open Source Text Processors

The thing which you have never seen before!

I have recently published a post regarding page numbering in Open Source Office applications.
This time I will repeat the same post in slightly different manner. There are video lessons showing process of document editing.
All three lessons use same .odt file with content of my guest posting.

Let's start with OpenOffice.org Writer.


Second exercise will be with KWord from KOffice (Calligra Suite).

And finally we do same lesson using AbiWord from GNOME Office.

How do you like it? Are these videos useful? Should there be more video tutorials for you in this blog? Please leave your thoughts and ideas in comments to this post.

And, by the way... Do you like my voice?

How To: Page Numbering in Open Source Text Processors

Some time ago I made guest posting on Go2Linux.org site comparing Open Source Office applications. That time I complained that it was not obvious for me how to automatically number pages in the document using some of text processors reviewed there. Have you ever faced this issue? Hope this time I will open the secrets of three different packages and show you how to solve this issue.

Guests and Visits

Do you like visits? Do you like guests? What do you like more?
Personally, I enjoy both.
And not only in my house.

My blog also likes guests. Do you want to be my guest author? If yes, you are welcome to contact me, either in comments or by e-mail.
But for the beginning I made a visit to another blog and left a note there. Quite lengthy post, I should admit.
So, let me introduce my guest posting at Go2Linux blog: Where 3 times 3 is 8.