If you are like me, and you’ve been using MS Office product for years, getting used to the way the user interface is setup on MS Office 2007 can be very very difficult.

Fortunately, there are plugins out there to get us that MS Office classis 2003 look. You can download it from here:

This plugin simply shows the classic menu in the Menus tab, and leaves that other tabs in tact.

Paint.net was suppose to be the replacement to Microsoft’s paint program.  Too bad it didn’t happen, but good for us it is available free of charge!

This program has the most common functions people use of a typical photo/drawing program, and is relatively easy to use.

Get Paint.NET!

If you aren’t much of a computer or Internet user, this might come as news to you.  Google, the biggest search engine on the planet, offers online office applications which gives you collaboration capabilities for word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation documents.  It even gives you the ability to create web forms which you can share for the purpose of taking surveys or polls.

All these are wrapped around a product called Google Docs.

There aren’t too many occasions when you can get something of real significant value from Microsoft–i.e. something good for free.

On this posting, you will find that web hosting is something you can get from Microsoft with some real added value!

  • web hosting service has no ads
  • it comes with a free domain name — free for 1 year
  • provides domain specific email addresses
  • online office space

Check it officelive.com!

Ever heard of OpenOffice?  Well, it is an open source office application suite from sun.com.  It has all the essential functionality of Microsoft Office without the hefty $200 plus price tag.  It is free!  It has the following primary applications: 

  • Writer – word processor
  • Calc – spread sheet
  • Impress – presentation program
  • Draw – graphics package
  • Base – desktop database
  • Math – equations/formula creator for your documents

Check out the product reviews!

According to sun.com, it has the following key benefits:

  • Available in more than 90 languages.
  • Works with many different operating systems.
  • Provides word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases, and more.
  • Stores all your data in a ISO-standard format (ODF).
  • Can read and write Microsoft Office files.
  • Can be used free of charge by anyone for any purpose!

Download it now!