SoftMaker Officefor Windows
App info
The fast, powerful and compatible office suite
SoftMaker Office is an affordable and easy-to-use alternative to Microsoft Office for Windows devices. This suite is a good solution for students, educators, small or large businesses, and organizations. It offers a wide range of handy tools you can use to satisfy your needs and make your work easier. SoftMaker Office includes TextMaker, PlanMaker, and Presentations.
TextMaker
TextMaker is an alternative to Microsoft Word. This text editor offers all the basic functions and features you may need for your work. Furthermore, it comes with a spell-checker and supports more than 75 languages. Various design options are also provided, along with edit sharing and comments. Also, TextMaker is fully compatible with Microsoft Word.
The disadvantage of this text editor is that it doesn't include a view option, so you cannot work in a realistic page view.
PlanMaker
The PlanMaker is a spreadsheet editor. It comes with various features you can use for your work. You will be provided with pivot tables, easy data filtering, formula auditing, and syntax highlighting. With PlanMaker, you can create attractive worksheets, thanks to its design options.
Presentations
Presentations is a very easy-to-use app that is an excellent alternative to Microsoft Powerpoint.
It offers dozens of templates to create eye-catching presentations easily. There are also a large number of different animation options to use. Moreover, here you can add music, tables, charts, and TextArt to your projects. To show your presentation to the audience, you can use a Presenter View option, where users need two monitors. One of them is for showing their presentation, and the second one is for doing other stuff.
SoftMaker Office's interface
The interface of SoftMaker Office is clean and intuitive. Here you can choose a classic toolbar interface or a Microsoft-style ribbon interface. The only disadvantage of SoftMaker Office's interface is that there is no search field, so you cannot just type some letters and find the needed feature.
Conclusion
SoftMaker Office is an alternative tool to Microsoft Office for Windows users. It may lack some features, and some users find it not as great as Microsoft Office; however, it is still a worthy suite you should try to work with
- Fast performance
- Low memory requirements
- Has core features
- Compatible with MS Office
- Too similar to MS Office
- Presentations have limited features
- No Cloud support
- Large installer file