How To Buy An Office Suite

Buying Guide June 23, 2011   View Online | Manage Subscription | Follow Us Welcome to the PCMag Buying Guide newsletter. This week: Everything You Need to Know About Office Suites! TOP STORIES How to Buy an Office Suite Microsoft Office 2010 isn't your only choice if you're buying a new office suite. You've got choices on the PC, choices on the Mac, and platform independent cloud-based choices, too—some are even free. Check out our office suite guide to learn which one is right for you. Share This: 100 Essential Tips for Microsoft Office 2010 Most of us use Office, and most of us could make better use of it, too. Check out our tips, sorted by app, to learn basic tricks and advanced tips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. Share This: Microsoft Office 2010 If you're looking for a top-of-the line Windows-based desktop office suite, Office 2010 is a dazzlingly attractive upgrade, but probably essential only for enterprise customers who need the new collaboration features. Excel workhorses will appreciate its 64-bit compatibility which lets users create humongous databases. Share This: Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Office 2011 for Mac is a fast, flexible, and powerful desktop productivity suite that's the best of its kind for OS X. It may not sync with iCal and Outlook, or retrieve mail from Exchange Server 2003 (or earlier), but it's the best office suite on the platform, bar none. Share This: Apple iWork '09 Apple's desktop productivity suite isn't a replacement for Microsoft Office for the Mac (yet), but iWork '09 offers a terrific set of programs for light word processing and medium-to-heavy spreadsheet use. And the stellar Keynote presentation app absolutely smokes all competing products—even Microsoft's. Share This: Google Docs Google's free, web-based office suite is the obvious choice for collaborating and editing in the cloud, though you may prefer Microsoft Office Web Apps if you require maximum compatibility with advanced Office features. Still, it has intuitive editing features, deep collaboration options, and tight integration with other Google products. Share This: LibreOffice 3.4 LibreOffice 3.4 may have a clumsy, outdated interface, but it's by far the best free desktop office application suite. It's not yet good enough to replace Microsoft Office, but it does the job admirably when free or open-source is required. Share This: For more reviews, news, guides, expert advice, and alerts, visit our Product Guide. FEATURED OFFERS LATEST TOP-RATED PRODUCTS Hulu (Summer 2011) | Web Sites | HTC Merge (U.S. Cellular) | Cell Phones | LoJack for Laptops by Absolute Software | Security Software | WordPress.com | Blog Tools | SuperTooth HD | Bluetooth Headsets | Kodak ESP Office 2170 All-in-One Printer | MFPs | Nintendo 3DS | Console Games | More >>   eNewsletter Information You are subscribed to PCMag.com's Buying Guide with the email address toqeer4.games@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe from this newsletter. To subscribe to other e-mail newsletters from Ziff Davis, change your delivery format from HTML to text, or change your email address, click here. Copyright ©2011 Ziff Davis, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis, Inc., 28 East 28th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10016