ThinkFree office is an free Office Suite of high performance word processing, spreadsheets and presentations and is extremely compatible with Microsoft word, Excel and Powepoint. ThinkFree interface is very much similar to Microsoft Office and easy to use. ThinkFree Desktop allows you to convert your documents to the widely accepted Portable Document Format (PDF) without any additional software. ThinkFree also has a online service which is also free offers 1GB of online storage account after registrations. ThinkFree file manager synchronizes the files online with the one in your PC, so you can edit it offline and next time when you connect, it updates it automatically.
The latest edition of ThinkFree also supports the new formats in Microsoft Office (.Docx, .pptx). Write is the tool which is similar to Word and comes with all the tools for editing documents with headers and footers, section based editing, tools, tables, images etc. Calc is the spreadsheet tool in the package which has over 300 functions ranging from complex engineering functions to simple financial tools. Show is the ThinkFree equivalent to powerpoint presentations. It comes with automatic slide layouts, drawing tools and cliparts.
The latest edition of ThinkFree is 3.5 and the download file size if 40MB. ThinkFree is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I tried ThinkFree Office. There are few basic problems which stops a normal user from using this software. For e.g. When you try to use “save as” or ” save as pdf ” the default location is “ThinkFree Storage”. If you want to save to your local disk you have to give full path. Thats not easy to a normal user.
I have tried OpenOffice before but never tried ThinkFree. Is it similar with Windows Office? I found that it is difficult to work with other software when we have used to work with Windows Office. Even a slight difference sometimes is very bothering.