Woolworths Home Office (Vista Compatible) Review
Woolworths Home Office (Vista Compatible) Feature
- Write : Word processing software compatible with MS Word. Includes advanced layout features such as tables, columns, frams, plus advanced text edition features such as spelling and grammar checker. Write great looking documents and even prepare posters and flyers.
- Spreadsheet : Numerical analysis software, compatible with MS Excel. Includes multi-sheet workbooks, templates & styles, print to fit, hide/show rows/columns, data filtering, 240+ functions and more. Use Spreadsheet to manage your lists and budgets!
- Database : Data management software compatible with MS Access data tables and queries. Includes single click automatic form and report creation, component based querying (column views, sort orders and filter creation) and VB script macros.
- Draw : Object design and layout software that utilises vector objects and enables you to design logos and insert pictures. Save your designs to JPEG or Adobe PDF.
- Photoalbum : Store and easily locate digital photos and other images, supporting all common formats.
Woolworths Home Office (Vista Compatible) Overview
Verdict: Not quite as sophisticated as Microsoft, but it has what you need to run a small business or home office, and it's cheap.
Kitting out your PC with all the software required to make it useful can be expensive. The cheapest version of Microsoft Office costs around £300. A good photo editor will set you back around £70, while anti-virus and other vital security software can cost £30-50. Before you know it, you've spent more on software than it cost you to buy the PC. It's barmy - or so Woolworths seems to think. The venerable vendor of unnecessary plastic objects has brought out a range of own-brand software, including such essentials as an office suite.
Here's where we let you into the secret: this isn't really Woolworths software at all. It's all made by a company called Formjet, which owns or distributes several software brands. Among these is Ability, and Woolworths Home Office is a rebadged version of Ability Office 4. Formjet also makes own-brand software for other companies, including Tesco.
It includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a drawing program, a database and a photo album. The drawing program is primitive; the photo album and the database are competent. The word processor and the spreadsheet are both very good. They can open, work with and save to equivalent Microsoft formats, so you'll have no problem sharing files with others. The word processor looks just like Microsoft Word 2003 (or XP, or 2000 for that matter), so anyone familiar with Microsoft Office will very quickly feel at ease.
Given the price difference, there are bound to be things that Word will do that the Woolworths word processor won't, but you'll be hard pushed to find them.
Most functions worked well; all our Excel formulas were recognised, and we completed a serviceable finance spreadsheet.
While it's not as polished or comprehensive as Microsoft Office, this suite has enough to make your home PC useful or even run a small business.
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