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Ability Office 98 60 day trial

Ability Office 98 consists of three powerful applications:

WRITE
lets you create, format, and print documents.
SPREADSHEET
lets you create numeric models, make ôwhat ifö projections, produce cash flows and draw charts.
DATABASE
lets you organize and store information, create reports and use on-screen forms.

AbilityÆs three applications work under the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT and use standard Windows operations. They are integrated, which means that they work together: you can take information from a spreadsheet, display it as part of a report in Write and mail-merge it with information from Database.

WhatÆs more, with Ability you can link the spreadsheets, drawings, databases, forms and documents you create. Once you tell Ability that two documents are related, Ability can make changes for you automatically. For example, your letter to the board of directors contains the total amount from your quarterly sales spreadsheet. If you get new sales figures, you enter them in the spreadsheet and Ability updates your letter automatically.


Special Offer for PC Plus readers!

See the CD pages in this month's PC Plus for a special offer on Ability Office 98. You can save at least ú10 on the usual price of ú29.95, so the full suite costs you only ú19.95! Order via the web site in US dollars and make even bigger savings because of the favourable exchange rates!

To Install Ability Office 98.


Product Details
Contact: Ability Plus Software Tel: N/A
Fax: N/A
Price: ú29.95 (but see special offer in this month's PC Plus) Serial Number : N/A
Limitations: Fully functional 60 Day Trail UnInstall: Yes, in Control Panel: Add/Remove programs
System requirements:
Windows 95/98/NT, Processor: 486/66 minimum - Pentium recommended, 30Mb hard disk space required during download and setup, Less than 20Mb for full installation after setup, 16Mb RAM, Mouse or other Windows pointer device,
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E-Mail: sales@inside-information.com




Office

  • Common field re-calculator/formatter
  • Mail merge with SQL based querying
  • Spell checker/thesaurus
  • Drag&Drop editing in word processing and spreadsheet
  • Undo/redo
  • Send to Exchange
  • OLE: automation; applications can act as both servers and clients
  • Configurable floating/dockable coolbars
  • All applications are MDI (multiple document interface)
  • Window splitter bars in all applications

    • Write

  • Feel instantly at home if you are familier with MS Word.
  • Import and Export file formats for Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Lotus AmiPro, RTF and HTML.
  • Wysiwyg Columns, Frames, Callouts, Captions, Footnotes, Header and Footers.
  • Permanent Wysiwyg Page Layout editing including header and footer, can be zoomed from whole page to 200%.
  • Configurable floating/dockable coolbars.
  • All applications are MDI (multiple document interface).
  • Window splitter bars in all applications.
  • Paragraph styles include fonts, line spacing, before and after spacing, margins and indents.
  • Multi-level Bullets and Numbering, Promote and Demote paragraphs.
  • Intelligent Drag and Drop, interactive rulers, comprehensive short cut menus provide easy, intuitive editing and formatting.
  • Date and Page Number fields provide exhaustive format options.
  • Templates enables creation of standard document styles for your own letterheads, memos, fax covers.
  • Borders/backgrounds - choice of line style/colour and background colours for paragraphs.
  • Spelling and Thesaurus always available to polish your prose.
  • Multi-Level Undo/Redo.
  • Common field re-calculator/formatter.
  • Conditional Mail Merge with MS Access compatible data.
  • Query Toolbar allows independent use of named Query Components, Sort Orders and Filters, for mailmerge definition.
  • Directly edit SQL commands to build queries for mailmerge.
  • Use spreadsheet functions in formula fields, refer to any other spreadsheets/databases/documents.
  • OLE: automation; applications can act as both servers and clients.
  • Send to Exchange.

    • Spreadsheet

  • Feel instantly at home if you are familiar with MS Excel.
  • Import and export data to Excel and Lotus formats.
  • Intelligent Drag and Drop cell copy/move/fill, interactive row and column bars and comprehensive short cut menus provide easy, intuitive editing and formatting.
  • Intelligent 'freeze titles' control using row/column intersection.
  • Cell Formatting options include borders, text and background colors, full font controls, cell alignment, text wrap, numeric formats, cell height & width controls with best fit.
  • Sheets can be configured to any size up to 255 columns by 65,536 rows.
  • Headers & Footers; Left, Center & Right formatting with fonts; set distance from edge option; date and time stamp; filename; and page numbering.
  • Undo, Redo & Repeat Format.
  • Send to Exchange.
  • OLE: automation; applications can act as both servers and clients.
  • Powerful user format tools save time:
    AutoSpell,
    AutoList,
    AutoSum,
    AutoStats,
    AutoFormat,
    AutoSeries.
  • Dynamic AutoSpelling highlights incorrectly spelt words as they are entered - suggestions are automatically available in the status bar.
  • Thesaurus available in addition to Speller.
  • Highlight any area of cells and status bar instantly displays required AutoStats: Sum, Count, Average, Min, Max.
  • Create your own Custom Lists for AutoList formatting.
  • Unique 'Edit Source' attribute turns any one-way reference into a two-way Hot-Link.
  • Chart Wizard creates Charts within the existing sheet or as a separate view.
  • 18 easy to create chart styles with interactive object formatting.
  • Common cell/field re-calculator/formatter
  • Over 240 functions: Text, Financial, Mathematical, Lookup, Reference, Trigonometric, Logical, Information, Statistical, Remote, Date & Time, Document.
  • Comprehensive Remote Database function list - supports MS Access; e.g. DBSQL, DBQUERY, DBTABLECOUNT, DBTABLENAME, DBFIELDCOUNT, DBFIELDNAME etc.
  • Browse database information
  • Conditional Mailmerge with MS Access compatible data.
  • Spreadsheet can Mailmerge using SQL queries just as well as Write.
  • Link to information from other spreadsheets/databases/documents
  • Configurable floating/dockable coolbars.
  • All applications are MDI (multiple document interface).
  • Window splitter bars in all applications.

    • Database

  • Full Relational structure; Tables, Relations, Queries, Forms and Reports, indexes, primary keys.
  • Powerful SQL Database Engine, based upon Microsoft DAO/JET engine (MS Access data compatible).
  • Comprehensive import and export: MS Access, dBASE, FoxPro, Excel, delimited text and ODBC data sources.
  • Entire structure held within a single 'datafile' - added security and easier backups.
  • Extensive field types: Text, Numeric, Memo (plain or RTF), Date/Time, Incremental,Lookup, Logical, Enumerated, Calculated, OLE Object, and Picture.
  • Database structure is displayed as a tree outline, as in Windows Explorer.
  • Independent Named Query Components enables column views, sort orders and filter selection to be combined on-the-fly!
  • Combine AND and OR in filters.
  • SQL commands can be directly edited for advanced query tasks.
  • Short cut menus enable 'selection' based creation of query components, column hiding, sorting and filtering.
  • Query Toolbar functionality is available from all Ability applications.
  • Mail merge within Ability Write and Spreadsheet with full Database querying functionality.
  • Ability has turned standard queries inside out. Ease of use turns user into PowerUser, without programming.
  • Ability simply gives you the most flexible, easy to use and comprehensive querying mechanism - at any price!
  • Easiest possible single click switching between Table View, AutoForm and AutoReport.
  • Spell checker & thesaurus available in Table editing.
  • Forms Designer - free style Ability DRAW functionality with embedded data controls.
  • Report Writer - report, page and group headers and footers, and details section.
  • Label reports can be generated based upon any query; choose from 200 Avery and Zweckform label definitions.
  • Configurable floating/dockable coolbars.
  • All applications are MDI (multiple document interface).
  • Window splitter bars in Forms.

    • Draw

  • Vector drawing tool
  • Import bitmaps to create document or spreadsheet headers
  • OLE server or container

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