ThinkFree Office

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What is ThinkFree Office?

1. What is ThinkFree Office

ThinkFree Office is a suite of office productivity applications that include the following:


ThinkFree Write

ThinkFree Write is a powerful word processing application that enables you to create rich, professional quality documents and web pages. You can create documents with various layouts using text, cliparts, drawings, images, charts, and tables. You can also make web pages using hyperlinks, image maps, frames, and tags, and then upload your work files to your web-server using a built-in publishing feature.

ThinkFree Calc

ThinkFree Calc is a spreadsheet program that supports complicated functions as well as basic calculation. It provides 300 functions, 40 types of charts, and a selection of more than 600 cliparts choices.

ThinkFree Show

ThinkFree Show is a presentation graphics program which enables anybody to creating professional looking slide shows and presentations. It provides various graphic tools as well as contains 140 diagrams and over 600 clipart images.

ThinkFree Folders

ThinkFree Folders is a unique file manager that allows you to centrally manage all of your files and folders, whether they reside on your local drives, networked drives, or your Cyberdrive. Using ThinkFree Folders, you can create new files and folders anywhere in your storage system, and drag-and-drop them freely between your local drives and Cyberdrive. You can also share files and folders with your friends through Public Folders on your Cyberdrive.


Microsoft Office is a fact of computer life. So what can you do if youVe sworn off Microsoft or don’t have $499 to blow on Office? Consider ThinkFree Office. It hardly dents your wallet— or your hard drive. And it’s compatible with Office, reading and writing DOC (Word), XLS (Excel), and PPT (PowerPoint) files, so nobody has to know you don’t have the real thing.

When ThinkFree is running, a floating palette presents ThinkFree’s applications, its unique Folders, and a button that connects you to your Cyberdrive (a first-year-free online storage space, à la Apple’s formerly free iDisk). The ThinkFree Write button launches Write and presents your first word-processing page. Likewise, the Calc button launches ThinkFree’s Excel counterpart, and the Show button starts the PowerPoint counterpart.

Each app looks and behaves much as you’d expect it to based on the Microsoft software. However, it doesn’t provide every feature of the Microsoft original.

Within Write, basic functions like text selection and formatting very much follow the Word model. If you’re a Word user, you may find Write frustrating, as it’s missing Word’s interactive spelling and grammar checkers and contextual spelling correction. But if you’re used to any other word processor, you’ll find ThinkFree’s spelling

checks more than adequate. Write is missing multicolumn text flow, linking text boxes, text wrap around a graphic, and drop caps; also absent are comments, highlighting and change tracking, which may matter greatly if you’re working collaboratively. It also doesn’t include tools such as data merge, envelopes, templates, and addresses. We know a lot of Word users who won’t even notice.

PowerPoint presentations fare generally well when ported to Show.

However, WordArt doesn’t render at all, and PowerPoint’s automatic numbering translates into bullets. Other big absentees include PowerPoint’s Notes, which guide you through the presentation, as well as the rehearsal feature, voice recording for narration, sound, and the custom button control.

Of the three apps. Calc is most like its Office match (a sign of things to come for the other apps). It provides Excel-style worksheets and does a great job with automatic cell fill-ins. It provides all the cell formatting you enjoy in Excel except text rotation. Calc even has the same Format Painter that makes character formatting easy in Excel. (Format Painter is indispensable in Word too, and promised for future versions of Write.) Excel Pivot Table users have to do without, though, as do database or macro users.

ThinkFree’s Office isn’t as polished as Microsoft’s, and some bits of the interface are downright annoying. To pick a style, font, font size, or magnification, you can’t just click the menu and scroll or drag to your target. Instead, you must click scrollbar-arrow buttons until your choice appears, then dick it It’s also a bit disconcerting to see your document go blank as it redraws after you drag and drop text or resize the window.

ThinkFree is not designed as an Office-killer, but as a supplement With the Microsoft application installed, double-clicking a file calls up Office. Otherwise, ThinkFree takes it Got both and want to work in ThinkFree? Drag the document onto ThinkFree’s icon, or save your documents in ThinkFree’s native formats.

If you live by Microsoft Office’s advanced features, ThinkFree isn’t for you. For the rest of us still pining for an OS X version of Word 5.1, this is the next best thing and then some.

Shadovitz, Deborah. (November 2002). ThinkFree Office. MacAddict. (pg. 44).


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Architecture


IBM PowerPC



System Requirements

From Mac OS 9.2 up to Mac OS 10.0





Compatibility notes

Java based software runs on multiple platforms

In addition to running on Mac OS X, ThinkFree Office runs on Mac OS9, Windows, UNIX and Linux. You can create documents from any operating system that has a supported Java virtual machine installed.

Aqua User Interface and Quartz

ThinkFree Office for Mac OS X provides the standard Aqua user interface and its advantages. And with the help from Quartz, the graphics rendering engine in Mac OS X, ThinkFree Office provides a nice and clear display.

Microsoft® Office compatible

ThinkFree Office works effortlessly with Microsoft Office file formats without requiring an additional file conversion process. ThinkFree Write, ThinkFree Calc, and ThinkFree Show will open, edit, and save .doc, .xls, and .ppt files. 


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