Phoenix Global Software announces ThinkFree Office3 Suite now available in SA

Phoenix Global Software, a leading republisher of software, is delighted to announce it has acquired the rights to distribute ThinkFree Office3 software into the South African marketplace for an amazing price of just R499.99 including VAT!

ThinkFree Office3 is a cross-platform suite of applications that will allow you to create your own documents as well as edit Microsoft Office files.

Whether you work in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, with ThinkFree Office3 you`ll feel right at home because it looks, feels and behaves just like they do regardless of whether you use it on Windows, Linux, or Macintosh. The three applications included in the suite are Write, Calc and Show. All three applications use the same file formats as Word, Excel and PowerPoint - thereby ensuring `round trip` compatibility. This makes the product ideal for the home, education or small-business user looking for a Microsoft Office complement or alternative.

Features of the product:

ThinkFree Office3 Write - full-featured word processor software:

* Format text, bullets, line spacing and date format
* Insert tables, specify table size and background colour
* Add images and clipart
* Real-time spell check and auto correction tools
* Full-featured drawing modules
* HTML export and XML (WordML) support
* Built-in PDF creation
* Easy-to-use, similar user-interface to Microsoft Office
* Seamlessly opens, edits and saves directly as a Microsoft Word compatible .doc format

ThinkFree Office3 Calc - powerful spreadsheet software:

* Track data and generate reports and graphs
* Store, organise, manipulate and present data of all types
* Enter or import data from other popular programs
* Customise font and background colour
* Tackle complex calculations with over 300 built-in formulas * Choose from 40 different graph types
* Powerful chart and drawing modules
* HTML export, and XML (SpreadsheetML) support
* Built in PDF creation
* Easy-to-use and similar user interface to Microsoft Office
* Seamlessly opens, edits and saves directly into the Microsoft Excel compatible .xls format

ThinkFree Office3 Show - feature-rich presentation graphics software:

* Create a variety of presentations with text, images, clipart, charts, graphs and animated effects
* Built-in templates available or create your own slide master
* Enhance presentations with fonts, bullets, colours, logos and clipart images
* 140 different drawing tools to create lines, shapes and flowcharts
* Re-organise slide order with drag and drop tools
* Full-featured drawing module
* Built in PDF creation
* Easy-to-use, similar user interface to Microsoft Office
* Seamlessly opens, edits and saves directly as a Microsoft PowerPoint compatible .ppt format

Benefits of ownership:

* Low cost, complete `Office` solution, MSRP R399.99 inc VAT
* Ideal for home, education or small-business as an "Office" complement and/or alternative
* Best document viewing compatibility with Microsoft Office
* Best round-trip compatibility with Microsoft Office
* Multi-platform support * Windows compatible fonts bundled for Linux and Mac users providing maximum cross platform compatibility
* Reduces company`s total cost of ownership
* Affordable per-user licence
* When hosted on a corporate intranet server, the software is launched from the server to the user`s desktop via a Web browser, thus eliminating the cost involved with installing and maintaining software on individual desktops
* Small footprint: complete suite of applications less than 30MB, total installed files including clip arts and Java around 110MB
* Built-in multilingual support for English (US/AU/UK) / French / German / Italian / Icelandic / Portuguese (Brazilian) / Spanish / Turkish / Chinese (Simplified /Traditional) / Korean/ Japanese / Korean

System requirements:

Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP, Mac OS X 10.4, Linux Fedora Core 3, Recommended Hardware: Pentium IV, Macintosh G4/G5, or equivalent with 256MB RAM (512MB recommended) and minimum 200MB free HDD space.