Free Web based Office Tools
Live Documents is a platform that marries the strengths of the desktop and the web into a synchronized solution that leverages the best of both worlds.
With Live Documents, you can:
- Access your documents on the web or on the desktop
- View and edit your documents from anywhere at any time in your browser in a rich user interface that provides the functionality and responsiveness that you expect in your familiar desktop applications.
- Use your existing desktop Office application (Microsoft Office currently and shortly Open Office) as a smart client that permits offline access to your document - the next time you go online, Live Documents automatically synchronizes all changes to ensure that there is a single version of the truth.
The Live Documents Plug-in is an optional client that you can download - the client converts Microsoft Office into a smart client that is web-enabled and provides collaborative capabilities within the context of familiar desktop applications।
System Requirements
Windows with Microsoft Office 2000/XP/2003
Store 1000+ Microsoft Office documents in one place, share files—you control who can view and edit. Works with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. or a better experience with Word, Excel and PowerPoint, an Office Live Add-in is available for the Microsoft Office suite.
Microsoft Office Live Small Business services allow you to create a professional online presence without the expense of buying a server, setting up a complicated infrastructure, and hiring technical staff to maintain it. Microsoft Office Live Small Business is a hosted service – all you need is a computer and an Internet connection.
Microsoft Office Live provides your company with its own free domain name, Web site, and e-mail accounts. Additionally, Microsoft Office Live offers expert business management applications, such as customer, project, and document management tools, and a security-enhanced Web site managed and maintained by Microsoft. These services are offered at three different levels: Microsoft Office Live Basics, Microsoft Office Live Essentials, and Microsoft Office Live Premium.
The product comparison chart can help you determine which product is most appropriate for your business needs.
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files.
ZOHO’s office-type offerings include Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, and a collaboration tool called Zoho Virtual Office. Zoho also offers web-based business tools—Zoho CRM, Zoho Creator (for developing business and personal web apps), Zoho Planner—an online organizer with todo, reminders, and notes; and Zoho Chat—a group chat tool. The collaboration member of the suite, Zoho Virtual Office, includes an email client, shared documents, calendars and more.
ThinkFree Office is an office suite written in Java that runs on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms. ThinkFree Office includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet (Calc) and a presentation program (Show). ThinkFree Office reads and writes to Microsoft Office file formats (.doc, .xls, and .ppt). ThinkFree Office has a look and feel similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, allowing users to switch over easily. ThinkFree suite include ThinkFree Desktop 3 for Windows/Linux/Mac, ThinkFree Online, ThinkFree Server, ThinkFree Portable.
CatalystOffice is an integrated suite of productivity software—email, document management, calendar, contacts, and instant messaging—created specifically to meet the needs of small businesses like yours. The best part is that all of this is quickly and easily delivered and managed over the web.
Younicycle is a powerful, user friendly general purpose web application that enables a Small Business without programmers to create websites, web forms, PDFs, applications, charts, databases, Chat and much more, all within a unified account. Younicycle is a low cost alternative to expensive desktop or server based, proprietary databases.
Younicycle is on the web but feels like your desktop.
A ‘Younified’, collaborative application built upon the legendary power of PostgreSQL, where you can create: Tables, Queries, Customized User Functions, Views, Roles, Privileges, Datasources, Applications, Websites, Charts, Chat, Drawings/Forms/Designs, Pdfs, Backups and a fair amount more. Complex code is automatically generated on the server by use of a comprehensive but simplified GUI built for ‘the common man’. Note that we have added a Demo of one of the Tools, so that it is no longer necessary to register in order to do a partial test.
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Update:
Thanks to my friend Kevin, here is some more tools:-
FCKeditor is also an MS Word-like web app. It’s open source too.
gOFFICE - “a browser-based online word processor and desktop publishing program”
Num Sum - web-based spreadsheets - except only the author of a spreadsheet can edit it.
called S5 - web-based Powerpoint
Openomy - online file-system
If there’s one you like that’s not on the list, tell us about it in the comments.
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