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Organize and communicate your ideas! Post-it Notes are great for reminders and more. Using Post-it Notes software is just like using paper, only better.

There are two major complaints concerning Linux distributions: the immaturity of the productivity software and the break with the familiar Microsoft Office products (and the files they've produced). SuSE Linux Office Desktop addresses both of these.

First, it includes Sun's commercial quality StarOffice 6.0 office suite, which provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, Web-page editing and vector drawing applications along with remarkably complete support for MS Office file formats--which means you can continue to use your existing files. StarOffice's native file formats are all XML based for compatibility with any XML-based applications.

The second string to SuSE Linux Office Desktop's bow is Codeweaver's Crossover Office, which enables you to install and run MS Office under Linux (apart from FrontPage) along with other Windows programs. This is impressively efficient.

To further make migration easy for end users and companies SuSE includes new software assistants that make networking a breeze. Installation on either a clean PC or alongside Windows is simple. On a Windows machine you can resize partitions--including under XP--without losing data.

Internet setup via modem, ISDN, DSL, and LAN is part of the installation process along with establishing network connections, or, as with everything, you can do it at any time using Yast2. KDE 3 is the default desktop, but the Gnome implementation is also excellent.

SuSE Linux Office Desktop isn't quite as polished as Windows, but most PC users could make the swap with little trouble. If you're one of the vast majority of word-processing, Internet-accessing PC users you can do more for less with SuSE Linux Office Desktop than with a basic Windows system. --Steve Patient

A solid, fast, and easy-to-use word processor that also has advanced features is a powerful tool and a good find, especially when it bears the legendary name of WordPerfect.

Now being published by Corel, WordPerfect 3.5 for Mac is more than a word processor. With the ability to export HTML files for the Web and import QuickTime movies and sounds, as well as its use of interactive dialog boxes, WordPerfect is a hybrid page-layout application and multimedia tool.

Along with the usual array of spell checkers and grammar checkers, layout options, tables, and a wide assortment of document templates, Corel has thrown in 5,400 clip art images, 150 fonts, 200 high-resolution photos, almost 200 textures, and almost 500 sound files.

One thing that WordPerfect has always excelled at is its handling of large files, i.e., novel-length documents. Built-in memory management, combined with efficiently written code, makes writing large documents a pleasure. Navigation (scrolling) is fast, as is spell checking and document reformatting.

Since this is an older application, the system requirements are very modest by today's standards--5 MB RAM, a Power Mac (which all Macs are now), and about 16 MB of disk space are all that's needed. Yet the program is robust and flexible and, in light of its age, fairly crash free even under Mac OS 8.6 and 9.

There aren't too many competitors in the word processing arena, but even if there were, WordPerfect 3.5 would be a tough one to beat. In light of the feature set and the cost, it's an outstanding value. --Mike Caputo

StarOffice software is an affordable alternative in office productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. The office suite has a simple, easy-to-use interface and contains full-featured applications including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database capabilities.

Spell Catcher 8 provides the best collection of comprehensive writing tools you will ever need! The sleek user interface makes it easy to look up definitions, pronunciations, and synonyms; to check spelling; and more. Spell Catcher 8 also has extensive spelling dictionaries that support nine different languages, including U.S. English, UK English, French, Canadian French, German, Swiss-German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Spell Catcher 8 does it all in one application. It checks your spelling and punctuation interactively as you type. It corrects and modifies your writing, using an extensive collection of writing-modification modules, such as form paragraphs, search and replace, statistics, and more. Use Spell Catcher 8 to clean up e-mail and create macros that perform multiple text changes, using a single keystroke, and more.