You can try Framework from
www.framework.com which is good alternate to
office product.
From their website I can't find the link for below text, so I copy & paste
here:
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Framework's outlined windowing environment with word processing,
spreadsheets, databases, file and directory management, data management,
integrated hypertext, integrated interpreter, rapid development computer
language and a slew of unique features and tools not available in any other
software. Framework is unique in its unified context-based object-driven
user interface which is based on selection capabilities and set based
architecture.
Framework is a continuation of Ashton-Tate's Framework (Framework, II, III,
and IV) and the FRED computer language. The Framework software and trademark
were taken over by Selection & Functions Inc. from Borland after Ashton-Tate
was taken over by Borland. Selection & Functions Inc. with the stated goal
of protecting the significant investment made by Framework users and FRED
programmers in this unique technology and concepts. The current Windows
versions of Framework which are available to Framework users are fully
compatible with the original Framework methods and user interface, files,
macros, FRED programs, libraries and dictionaries, while providing
transparent compatibility with Windows programs and data.
Copying between Framework and Windows MS Word, Excel, HTML, Internet e-mail,
and most other programs preserves text style and format as well as
spreadsheet cell and database field values. Images cut by Framework,
including pictures opened in Framework (JPG, GIF, BMP, etc.) can be pasted
into Windows graphic programs such as MS Paint and Photoshop.
Framework extensive "Windowing" capabilities allows the Framework desktop to
grow larger than the Windows screen. A larger than screen desktop can be
scrolled up down and left right with documents (which may include pictures)
placed freely side by side or overlapped for viewing and comparison. A
Framework menu can be toggled between "always on top" keeping the Framework
window on top of other Windows or behaving as a normal Windows which can be
coverd by other Windows when not in focus. program.
A Framework menu creates secondary "post-it" "view windows" which can be
sized, positioned and scrolled as independent Framework desktop viewer
windows, updated with changes "broadcasted" from Fraemwork as the Framework
desktop is updated. Those multiple "view windows" can be positioned and
sized to show different areas of a a desktop which may be larger than the
screen with documents freely positioned on it.
Framework's mouse functionality is selection based and time independent.
Multiple mouse click operations are deciphered by the number of clicks, not
the the time interval between them. Mouse clicks actions are user defined
and user programmable. They can be directed to run pre-recorded Library
macros, standard keybord keys, and FRED programs as well as Windows API
programs. Mouse actions are equivalent to Framework's standard command keys.
Mouseovers help tips shows the equivalent key-commands familiar to Framework
users.
Framework provides a productivity suite with unlimited expendability,
standard organization of data and knowledge in a context based language like
programmable environment. Among its features are fast filing, outlining,
recording of macros in a consistent predictable environment, user
programmability, linking and search tools, dynamic switching between
languages, automatic creation of hypertext, automatic database filtering,
extensive programming capabilities with access to Windows DLL's and GUI on
top of an environment supporting graphics and desktop publishing.
Framework takes advantage of a new dynamic state machine technology
providing instant input parsing and among other things, a mass storage
industrial strength indexless databases providing close to instant data
access independent of data size. This mass storage database system provides
hard drive persistency and is limited in size only by the available hard
drive space. This independent mass storage system is in addition Framework's
support of Ashton-Tate's dBase files and indexes provided for back
compatibility with dBase files.
Framework's support for programming ranges from user recorded macros through
the FRED language interactive interpreter, to Windows DLL and Windows API
programs. For programers (or aspiring thereof) a 32 bit Windows API Pascal
compiler compatible with TP Pascal is available. And for the time being and
while on Intel compatible machines the LLI DTK (with minimal exceptions) is
a alive and well
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The Framework technology architecture and implementation is not tied up to
Windows. It consists of a number of portable OS independent modular cores,
including a portable packet data server and OS specific interface agents. It
allows the Framework TEchnology to run from plugged in devices or via
wireless or network connectivity on different platforms and in different
configurations. Some USB and wireless devices are used currently by
Framework users. Framework "packetizing" and managing data independent of
its format allows handling of unfamiliar file formats in outlines.
Packetizing of data and interface makes it possible for Framework to operate
remotely on different operating systems via dedicated agents.
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