Alternatives to MS Excel

Almost all of us, use Microsoft Office in our daily life whether it is office work or our domestic work. I have posted an article 'Few Alternatives for MS office' .Today I am sharing few alternative specially for MS Excel. We will discuss about the  other applications available in the Internet that are similar to Microsoft–Excel. Let us start one by one:-


1. Open Office Calc:

This application is almost similar to Microsoft – Excel. But it has got an additional facility viz., Data Pilot which is useful in handling various types of data of an organization. This may useful in arriving at many decisions at organizational level. To download and use this program, please visit http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html

2. Abykus:

The Abykus 2.0 is a spreadsheet program. This program is very useful in dealing Commerce and Scientific data. This program has got "Statistical Wizard" which is found useful in dealing with enormous data. The additional features of this program are: Mathematical Formulae, above 190 in number, Matrix Equations, Equations on day and time and 3 Dimensional graphics. We can open and use any spreadsheet through this program. To download and use this application program, please visit: http://www.abykus.com/

3. Clean Sheets:

This spreadsheet program is first of its kind that can be used in all types of operating systems. This worksheet has been created using Java and hence to use this spreadsheet application, you need to install Java in your computer. To use this application program, please visit: http://csheets.sourceforge.net/

4. Spread32:

This is a comparatively smaller Spreadsheet program. It has got a matrix of 256 Columns and 65536 Rows. We can use more than 300 formulae in this application program. To use this program, please visit: http://www.xtort.net/office-and-productivity/floppy-office/

5. Edit Grid:

This application program is an online Spreadsheet program. It has all the utilities of Microsoft – Excel. We can just connect the data with this program and use all the Microsoft – Excel utilities for our requirements. To use this application program, please visit: http://www.editgrid.com

* We have numerous such Spreadsheet application program available in the Internet. The following are worth mentioning other programs in the sequence: Google Spreadsheets, Zoho Sheets, Num Sum, Simple Spreadsheet, wikiCalc, Zcubes calci, etc. Those who are interested to use these application programs may "Google Search" for it and use it as per requirements.

 

Create E-Book from Word Documents

E-Book is an electronic form of a usual book. You can read it on your PC or laptop etc . you can purchase and download your favourite books in E-Book format from many sites in the Internet.

E-Books are available in various file formats. Also you require reading softwares to open and read it. Here i am mentioning about Microsoft reader.There is '.lit' extension on E-books compatible with Microsoft reader.

The steps involved in creating E-Books using Microsoft reader are :-

1. Download the Microsoft reader from http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.aspx and save it to your PC and then install it. (this is to read the created e-book in microsoft reader format)

2.To make your E-Book in microsoft reader format , download and install the free Add-in For Microsoft Word from http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/rmr.aspx
This rmr (Read in Microsoft reader) add-in works with Word 2002 or 2003. Now when launching the Word, you can se the reader icon in the tool bar. and there is a read command on the file menu. It is used to create your E-book.

3. Open the word file which you want to convert to E-Book. Or create a word file and save it.

4. Click on the 'Reader' icon in the tool bar or select 'reader' command from file menu. Now a window will pop up and you can fill the details (such as Title, author , file name) there. Also select the folder where you want to save the E-book.

5. By selecting 'Convert to reader formating' check box, it will format it according to the reader. If there is "table of contents" in your word file, you can make it compatible with reader format by selecting "Reformat table of contents".

6. By clicking "customise covers" you can choose desired picture as the cover Image of the E-book. Click "browse" and select the picture and click "OK".If you not done this the E-book will be created with default cover image.

7. Click OK to begin the conversion of word file to reader file. E-Book will be created and saved in the folder you specified. Now your E-book is ready to use.

Now open the E-book and click 'goto' and select 'begin reading' to read the book. or select 'begin playing' to listen your E-book. for additional settings select settings and do accordingly.there is more menus like, Library, shop,help,settings,return etc.

While reading the book you can select sentences and then one menu will pop up and you can add more beauty to your book. See the Help menu for more details.