The constant costs of upgrading software for small business can run into several thousands of dollars each year. Spending that amount of money on a business tool you would expect a return on investment through increased productivity but often times upgrading software can result in confused staff as a minimum and even a loss of critical data as people adjust to new was of doing things. Not to mention the cost that can be incurred rolling out upgrades to various computers used in a business.
One of the most common suite of applications used in the office is the Word possessor and spreadsheet. Most people are familiar with the Microsoft© product but now there is a very well supported product called OpenOffice and the best news is that it is free and is compatible with the better known products documents so there will never be a problem opening documents received from others who still use the Microsoft© product. You can even create a new document and save it to the other format.
One of the best features I have found in OpenOffice suite is the ability to save a file in the PDF format with the press of a button. This is great when a document is ready to send to a client.
OpenOffice if available from http://www.openoffice.org.au and the free adobe PDF viewer, for anyone who hasn’t already downloaded it is available from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
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