free office suite - OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a complete office suite OpenOffice designed to rival the very expensive Microsoft Office family of programs. With a word processor, spreadsheet program, presentation maker and drawing utility, it might not be as refined as its more expensive counterpart, but it’ll get all your work done with relative ease. Read more
7 Freeware for college student - AbiWord
Word processing is one task which is performed by most computer users. Almost all PCs in the world have been used for word processing. While MS Word is the most commonly used word processor, there are also other free applications that offer comparable performance. AbiWord is a free word processor that offers all the features that you would ever require for word processing. In addition, it does not hog system resources.
If you are a user of MS Word, then using AbiWord wouldn’t make you feel out of place. Most of the features you would use in the former are available in AbiWord. It supports common Word file formats such as DOG and RTF in addition to some of its own unique formats such as ABW and ZABW. The ZABW format is some what similar to the DOCX format in MS Word 2007 wherein the document is in a compressed format hence it takes up less space. Abi Word is not as refined as MS Word or Open Office Writer, but it still has advantages over them because of it being a standalone word processor.
Error 25090 in Word
I have OpenOffice as well as Office 2003 installed on my machine. But I made Office 2003 as my default suite for all my word, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Of late I keep getting the error “Error 25090: Office Setup encountered a problem with the Office source engine….Please open C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ Office111033\Setup\Setup.chm’ and
look for ‘Office Source Engine’ . Italso launches the Windows Installer and begins installation some additional components for Office. I cannot work on my documents because of this poblem. How can I get Office 2003 to work again?
This sort of a problem usually occurs if someone has installed the Office suite twice on your computer — probably in different user accounts and set it to be used by all users. It can also be that the setup files were not removed after the installation. Usually the user is asked if the setup files should be removed after installation — if not then this error might occur. The solution is quite simple — all you need to do is begin the Office installation once again. You will need your Office installation CD for this. As soon as the installation begins, click on ‘Cancel’. The dialog box will ask you to confirm your action to exit the Setup. Exit it and the Office installation will close.
Accessing frequently needed functions faster in Office 2007
As soon as you upgrade to the latest version of Office, the first thing tht happens is that you feel totally lost regarding where all your most often used functions are located. Here is how we re-enable these in Word 2007. Cllick the ‘Customize Quick Access Toolbar’ button in the title bar of Word and choose the ‘More Commands’ menu item. This will open a ‘Word Options’ dialog with the customizing page opened on it. You will see two lists on the right hand side; the list on the left contains possible commands whereas the list on the right displays the commands currently present on the toolbar. You can limit this selection using the combination box above the left list. Word offers the most frequently used commands by default. Select’ All commands’ instead. Search for the command that you want to add in the ‘toolbarfor quick access’ in the list. Select the desired entry, click on it an move it to ‘Insert’ in the list on the right.
Transfer all the required commands to the right list in the same manner.
Confirm with ‘OK’. If you want to remove a command from the toolbar, select it in the list on the right and click ‘Delete’. The ‘Quick access Toolbar’ for Excel, Access and PowerPoint can be configured in a similar manner.
