Ability Office

Ability Office is a full-featured office suite that features a word processor, a spreadsheet editor, a presentation designer, a database management tool, and a photo editor and organizer. The package is an alternative to Microsoft's flagship product, delivering powerful tools while preserving a familiar working environment.

The ribbon-based interface of all products in the Ability Office suite makes the learning curve pretty shallow. In fact, the ribbon tabs offer one-click access to the most important features, whether we are talking about Ability Writer, Ability Presentation, or Ability Spreadsheet. On the other hand, Ability Photoalbum is focused on file navigation and photo previewing, so its interface is organized in a different manner.

Ability Writer is the word processing application of the suite, providing robust text editing tools that enables you to create professional-looking documents. With font, paragraph and text style customization options, support for shapes, tables, and images, Ability Writer is a contender for Microsoft Word. As the latter, it also comes with support for headers and footers, frames, references, and page and paragraph layout customization. It also features proofing and spelling functions, support for mailing and macros.

Ability Presentation facilitates the design of compelling presentations, with integrated illustrations and interesting transition effects.

Creating and editing spreadsheet documents is possible thanks to the Ability Spreadsheet application, which delivers a robust feature set, with support for various types of graphs and a plethora of functions, including financial, logical, mathematical, and statistical ones.

Ability Office also comes with a photo viewer, which features a tree-like browser and a large preview area, with advanced filtering options and support for loading slideshows.

Last but not least, the Professional edition of Ability Office also comes with a database management tool.

Ability Office is part of the suites that have the potential to become important competitors for Microsoft's Office. However, while it can serve as an alternative to the latter, Ability Office cannot yet meet the requirements of users who are faithful to the popular Office 365.