Details and specifications of Ability's Office 2002, (GBP inc VAT RRP £49.95). A worthy competitor of Microsoft, Lotus, Corel, & Sun - an award winning bargain of a program. [Buy now] or call us on 0870 766 3699
Ability Office is an integrated suite of five software applications - a word
processor, a spreadsheet, a database, a photo-editor, and a drawing module - and
is ideal for use both in the office and at home.
A true integrated
suite, Ability Office is designed from the ground up to facilitate
cross-application linking through special fields. It is straightforward and easy
to use for beginners, displays an industry-standard interface, and has a high
degree of file compatibility with Microsoft Office. A PDF Creator enables users
to create email-friendly PDF files in any of its five applications.
Ability Write gives you everything you need to prepare, edit and
present better-looking letters, reports, quotations, memos, mailings and
newsletters.
Apart from the features that you would expect any good word
processor to have - spell checker and thesaurus, bulleted and numbered lists, a
wide range of file formats for export and import, headers and footers, numerous
paragraph and font options, clear and helpful interface, interactive rulers,
intelligent drag and drop editing, short-cut menus for easy text revision, the
capacity to include graphics, spreadsheets and charts, and many other essential
features - Ability Write also has the unexpected:
industry-standard "look and feel"
mail merge to Microsoft Access files, even if you don't have Ability
Database
user-defined selecting, sorting and querying of mail merge data from within
Write
a multi-lingual facility
table creation with full editing capabilities, including splitting or
merging of cells
full import of Microsoft Word documents, even those containing tables and
images
printing of non-consecutive pages or ranges
creation of PDF files from Write documents
Recent Files and Folders sidecar menus to help you locate and open folders
and files quickly
creation of special text effects through Write FX
Macros - use VBScript, OLE automation and programmable forms
styles, templates, frames, call-outs, captions, and columns
advanced fields capability to allow direct linking to spreadsheets and
databases, including live sharing and changing of information across
applications
Ability Write on its own helps you get down to work on
all your word processing tasks; as part of a suite it helps deliver the
first-class integrated power of Ability Office.
Ability
Spreadsheet is the perfect tool for managing all your numerical data,
whether business accounts, home finances, complicated calculations or homework
problems. To help you make sense of your figures, Ability has incorporated all
the essential features users would expect from their spreadsheet, as well as a
range of advanced features – some of them unique to Ability Spreadsheet – to
make working with numerical data as easy and clear as it gets:
industry-standard "look and feel"
multi-sheet workbooks connected by cross-sheet formulas to help you organise
and connect your data
each workbook can contain up to 255 worksheets of 256 columns by 65,536 rows
labour-saving tools such as AutoSum, AutoStats, AutoSpell, and AutoList
over 240 predefined functions, grouped into useful categories: mathematical,
financial, trigonometric, logical, statistical, date and time, text, and
document information
Microsoft Excel compatibility
Recent Folders and Recent Files sidecar menus to make finding files and
folders quick and easy
a PDF Creator to create PDF copies of your spreadsheets – these can then be
emailed
a comprehensive range of charts, with 41 styles grouped into 11 categories:
Column, Bar, Line, Pie, XYScatter, Area, Financial Stocks, Strata, Radar, Bubble
and Vector
headers and footers
row and column freezing to preserve the display of titles (on-screen and at
print time)
user-definable page breaks
Print-to-fit auto-scaling
spreadsheet templates to enable you to use your specially designed
spreadsheets again and again
advanced cell formatting, including merging and splitting of cells, cell
comment boxes, double-line cell borders, and custom format styles
tool tips to display cell formulas
hyperlinks to call up web pages
Macros - use VBScript, OLE automation and programmable forms
browsing and editing of database files, including Microsoft Access files,
from the spreadsheet by using unique database functions
live sharing of data between database and spreadsheet through unique Edit
Source option: allows database data to be modified from spreadsheet and
spreadsheet data to be modified from database without your having to locate and
open the remote file
querying of database fields inserted into spreadsheet: apply sorts,
selections, column orders and queries created in database, or create your own
directly in spreadsheet
insert text-effects using WriteFX (as in Ability Write)
cells can be formatted for fonts, borders and colours directly from the
toolbars
multiple non-sequential cell selection, allowing quick and flexible
formatting of selected areas of the spreadsheet
SQL querying to extract data from many standard databases
These
are some of the main features of Ability Spreadsheet. There are plenty more to
help you with all your numerical tasks.
Ability Database is a
powerful data management system that is perfect for storing and analysing
structured data or information, including address books, inventories, customer
and product lists, medical records, and any other data that can be usefully
tabulated.
Each Ability Database essentially consists of these elements:
basic data Tables, which are designed using a variety of Field types,
including Numerical, Date/Time, Character, and many others
the data entered by the user into the Records that make up a table
a way of viewing a table, either as a Grid, a Form , or a Report
special tables called Relations, which are constructed from other tables
that have one or more fields in common
actions that can be performed on tables, known as Queries: sorting records
into various orders by using a Sort Order, selecting records of particular
interest with a Filter, rearranging, hiding or showing fields (columns) using a
Columns View
queries can be named and saved and used whenever you need them
construction of complex queries from combinations of sort orders, filters
and column views
Using Database Manager, Database’s central command area, you can create and
display all of your database objects – tables, forms, reports, relations,
filters, sort orders, column views, queries – in one convenient tree structure.
This is similar to the structure of Windows Explorer and can be expanded or
contracted by clicking on the appropriate + or – .
Here are
some more of the features that make Ability Database such a powerful data
management tool:
Recent Folders and Recent Files sidecar menus to make locating and opening
files easier and quicker
compatibility with Microsoft Access data tables – based on the same database
engine Microsoft use for Microsoft Access
single-click querying for simple filters, sort orders and column views
queries can be used in Spreadsheet and Write files in conjunction with merge
fields – unique to Ability Office
quick and easy browsing of tables and forms
basic auto-forms and auto-reports created with a single click
design more complex forms and reports in Design Mode
insert database fields, lookup summary fields, formula fields, table grids,
and other objects into forms and reports
single-click switching between tables, forms and reports
wizards that take care of creating tables, reports and mailing labels
full SQL-statement editing
unlimited number of records per table
Macros - use VBScript, OLE automation and programmable forms
Print to PDF to enable you to create a PDF file from any table, form,
report, relation or query
classic toolbars to make many tasks as easy as a single click of your mouse
There are many more features in Database to help you with your data
management tasks.
Ability Photopaint is a photo and
image editor that will instantly feel familiar, both in its interface and
functionality, to users of Adobe Photoshop. Its fundamental components are paint
tools, color palettes, brushes, selections, special effects filters and layers.
Using these features together, you can apply the right color, or range of
colors, in the right place to get the effect you want.
Filters apply
special effects to your image (or selection within an an image). There are
nearly 100 different effects – classified into groups:
artistic
blur and sharpen
stylize
edge detect
tiles
distort and noise
light effects and effects
Brushes and Paint tools are used to
apply color and other effects:
a variety of sizes and shapes
can be used with any color or opacity
modes determine how the applied color interacts with an image’s existing
color
a Brush Editor enables users to design their own brushes
Selections are used to isolate the parts of an image the user
wants to work on:
a wide range of selection tools, including Lasso, PolyLine, B-Spline, Lasso,
Ellipse, Rectangle, Single Line, and Magic Wand
selection editing tools to help fine-tune selections already applied:
Border, Similar, Expand/Contract, Transform
Layers are used to divide
an image into several separate superimposed sections, thereby ensuring that work
on one layer will not affect the image on another layer:
Layers can be reordered, added and deleted
added images can be inserted as new Layers
blending modes, which are reversible, determine how the layers interact
opacity sets the degree of transparency, hence allowing the user to see
through higher layers to those below
one layer can be used as a mask for another
merge any two or all of the layers (perhaps to send as a printable file to a
printing shop, a friend or another company)
In addition to
these fundamental features, Ability Photopaint also provides the following:
compatibility with major file formats
Red Eye Reduction
Recent Color toolbox
extensive library of Gradients, including Linear, Bilinear, Radial, Square,
Conical Symmetric, Conical Asymmetric, Spiral Clockwise, and Spiral
AntiClockwise, and the ability to design your own gradients
creation of PDF files
Recent Folders and Recent Files sidecar menus to ensure easy locating and
opening of files.
connect to TWAIN-compatible scanner
compatible with all Digital Cameras
Image Enhancement tools, such as Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Color
levels, and Histograms
These are some of the features of Ability Photopaint that help you get the
effects you want. There are many more for you to explore and play with.
Ability Draw: page layout software that utilises vector objects
and enables you to design logos and insert pictures.
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