office applications & related tools
Continuing our philosophy of
giving our visitors a freedom of choice... all of our workstations have
Microsoft Office Professional 2003 and
OpenOffice.org 2.2 installed.
In addition, we have attempted to anticipate the needs of those visitors who are on a working holiday, and have provided a range of facilities to enable them to connect to their office...
All this, of course, while also providing access to office Productivity tools, such as Adobe Reader, Language Tools and a variety of Reference sources...
The programs and available links are arranged into the following categories:
- Microsoft Office Professional 2003
- OpenOffice.org 2.2 - Sun Microsystems
- File & Connectivity Tools
- Office Productivity Tools
- Language Tools
- Reference
A full listing of each category is provided below...
Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
Please note... Outlook 2003 is not installed, as our workstations are used in a public place after all!
Does this office suite really need an introduction?
- Access
- Now a virtual standard in databases...
- Excel
- Is there any other Spreadsheet application?
- PowerPoint
- Every(?) presenter's favorite slideshow creation application...
- Publisher
- Microsoft's foray into Desktop Publishing...
- Word
- The current standard in Word Processing applications...
The following Microsoft Office Add-ons are also available...
- ActiveSync (v4.5)
- Compatability Pack for the Office 2007 System
- Office Document Scanning
- Office Document Imaging & OCR
- Office Visio Viewer 2003
OpenOffice.org 2.2 - Sun Microsystems
For those who are unaware, OpenOffice.org is a free open source office suite available from Sun Microsystems, in which Calc, Impress & Writer are capable of editing and saving the corresponding Microsoft Office documents in their native formats.
- Base
- The OpenOffice.org database application.
- Calc
- The OpenOffice.org Excel killer?
- Draw
- A drawing and charting application.
- Impress
- A replacement for Powerpoint?
- Math
- Now you can write the most complicated mathematical formulae your little heart desires... but when will those Americans realise that there should be an s on the end of Math?
- Writer
- The OpenOffice.org Word killer... maybe?
File & Connectivity Tools
Please note... the
Citrix Presentation Server (Web Only) Client is also installed on all our
workstations - for those visitors who require it to access
their office network.
- Windows Explorer
- For browsing your file downloads & removable drives.
- Safely Remove (USB) Hardware
- The Windows Control Panel applet for safely removing USB linked devices.
- Remote Desktop Connection
- Microsoft's remote login facility for Windows XP systems... for when you need to login to your PC or Server back at the office.
- PuTTY (SSH, Telnet & Rlogin Client) (v0.60)
- One for the techies... for when Remote Desktop Connection is not enough!
- FileZilla (v3.0.0)
- A fast and simple FTP client.
- ExtractNow (v4.39)
- For when you need to extract files from those ZIP & RAR archives...
Office Productivity Tools
Don't forget to check out our Other Services page, for details of our scan, print, fax & PDF creation options.
- Adobe Reader
- Adobe's free reader for PDF files
- Universal Currency Converter
- A link to the Universal Currency Converter website... so you can check whether that online deal really is the bargain you think!
- Wordpad
- For when Word is simply overkill...
- Notepad
- For viewing & editing all those ".txt" files...
- Calculator
- The standard Windows calculator program.
Language Tools
See our Language Support page for full details of our language options.
- On-Screen Keyboard
- For when you can't remember how your keyboard layout relates to ours.
- Character Map
- Find all those characters from your language, that don't appear on our keyboards.
- Lingoes - Text Translation
- Translate any word... in any application!
- Babelfish
- A link to the Babelfish on-line language translation site... translate web pages & blocks of text - and back again... if you're game!
Reference
- Answers.com
- Online dictionary, encyclopedia and much more... free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers.
- Chambers (UK)
- Conduct online searches of the Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus or Chambers Biographical Dictionary.
- Creative Commons Search
- Find Creative Commons licensed media that you can legally share and reuse for free!
- Encarta Dictionary
- Microsoft's Dictionary & Thesaurus application... with an American slant(?)
- Encarta Premium 2006
- Microsoft's multimedia encyclopedia.
- Wikipedia
- A link to the ubiquitous on-line encyclopedia... available in 15 languages!
Check out our Links & Other Software [menu] page for links to more Reference sites.
