Ashampoo Office 2008, formerly known as SoftMaker Office, is an alternative Office productivity suite to Microsoft Office for Windows. Ashampoo 2008 consists of TextMaker (word processor), PlanMaker (spreadsheet similar to Excel), and Presentations (presentation graphics similar to PowerPoint).
Ashampoo Office 2008 has many similar functions of the correspondent programs from Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org or WordPerfect Office, besides several unique features such as ability to run off USB flash drives and integrated reference works. Ashampoo Office 2008 has own native file formats similar to SoftMaker Office, but also supports and can read or write Microsoft Office file formats and Open Document Format (ODF used by Open Office, though in TextMaker only.
Features:
- Supports MS Office, OpenOffice.org (TextMaker only), RTF and HTML file formats
- Multi-language spell-checking.
- Hyphenation support.
- Thesaurus support.
- Integrated five-language translation dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish).
- Improved master pages with texts.
- Bordering and shading whole pages.
- Page breaks now independent of printer.
- Improved import and export of Microsoft Word files.
- The reading and also the exporting of OpenDocument files.
- New template manager manages paragraph and line templates.
- New print preview function to control the printed image prior to print out.
- Several pages (2, 4, 6, 8, 16) on a single printout to save paper.
Ashampoo Office 2008 priced at $59.99 for a single license. Now, it is offering a free license to Ashampoo Office 2008. To get the free serial number, visit the Ashampoo Office 2008 registration page.
Download: Ashampoo Office 2008


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