Celframe Office

Celframe Office is an office suite for Microsoft Windows and developed by the US based IT company Celframe. This product cannot be considered just an office suite, but more as a productivity suite as it also provides support for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash (formerly "Macromedia Flash") and CorelDraw like tools as well. This productivity suite is available in the market since 2006.

Celframe Office is a low-cost (although not free like OpenOffice.org) alternative to Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office. Version 2008 of Celframe Office offers MS Office 2003 look with extra features called as “Express” and an expanded number of applications, as many as eleven.

Celframe Office from version 2008 supports file formats of Microsoft Office (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .mdb), OpenDocument (.odt, .ods, .odp, .odb), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), Adobe Flash (.swf) and other popular file formats, for import and export of files - so users can easily share and edit files with users of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, and CorelDraw.

Celframe Office is popular with Government sectors, educational institutions, OEM system builders in the Asia Pac, so providing it access to the world through Taiwanese Original Design Manufacturer. Celframe Office provides more features than Microsoft Office with no learning required and at a lower OEM price than Microsoft Works.

Version 2008

The latest version of Celframe Office is version 2008, released in January 2008.

Features

  • MS Office 2003 UI, so keeping it simple and no relearning.
  • Ability to convert in any apps to PDF and also ppt to swf formats.
  • Just 50 MB disk space and can run for a USB drive.

Modules

The following modules are included:

  • Celframe Office Write – A word processor similar to Microsoft Word with Desktop publishing tools as well.
  • Celframe Office Spreadsheet – A spreadsheet equivalent to Microsoft Excel.
  • Celframe Office Data Access – A relational database manager in the category of Microsoft Access
  • Celframe Office Power Presentation – A new module in Version 4 similar to Microsoft PowerPoint and also save the presentations in .swf Adobe Flash.
  • Celframe Office Studio – A bitmap graphics editor similar to Adobe Photoshop.
  • Celframe Office Mail – An email client with contact manager with support to download even HTTP email so better than Microsoft Outlook with inbuilt RSS, Spam blocker and Antivirus.
  • Celframe Office Publisher – A desktop publishing application more in detail that Celframe Write. It is often considered to be an entry-level desktop publishing application, the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing. It is similar to Microsoft Office Publisher
  • Celframe Office Note Taker – A tool for notetaking, information gathering, and multi-user collaboration. It is similar to Microsoft Office OneNote.
  • Celframe Office Backup – An inbuilt email and system backup software.
  • Celframe Photoalbum – A photo application to edit and crop photos.

Release history

Product

First Released

Most Recent Update

Celframe Office 2008

2008

February 2008

Celframe Office Vista

2007

February 2007

Celframe Office 2006

2005

March 2006

Product

First Released

Most Recent Update

See also

  • List of office suites
  • Comparison of office suites
  • Office Open XML software

References

  • Best Five star rating for Celframe Office 1
  • Compatibility review2
  • Celframe compared to Microsoft3
  • Alternative Office Suite review 4
  • Major deal with African Governments5
  • Suitable for old legacy systems 6
  • Blog reviews7
  • Review by Computer world magazine 8