Three powerful office professionals in one single suite
Why Ashampoo Office 2012? Ashampoo Office 2012 provides you with three powerful, efficient and at the same time easy to use programs in an affordable suite. The perfect combination of these three programs allows fast, reliable and convenient working, no matter whether in the office or at home.
Ashampoo Office 2012 is characterized by a high compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats. Therefore you can easily open, edit and save Word, Excel or PowerPoint files. This guarantees a seamless document exchange with Microsoft Office users.
Even greater flexibility is provided by an option that allows installing Ashampoo Office 2012 on a USB flash drive. This way you will always have your “office” for the PC at hand.
Read on to learn more about what Ashampoo Office 2012 has to offer.
Ashampoo TextMaker 2012 – Word processor
Ashampoo TextMaker 2012 provides the best possible support for every task, from a plain letter to an elaborately designed flyer. The integrated wizards help you with the spell check, serial letters and with printing envelopes.
A variety of functions is also available for designing and editing flyers or brochures. The object mode lets you place graphics, images etc. freely on your text page. With the master page function you can also place objects which should be reproduced in the document on an entire page. The TextArt module for creative text effects and the AutoShapes function for quick drawings are two more features that allow you to create individual and attractive documents for any occasion.
New improvements make working with the Ashampoo TextMaker 2012 even more comfortable. The new sidebar lets you navigate quickly in your document and you can easily apply changes as well. Zooming in and out of a document has never been easier with the new zoom slider.
Functions and new features at a glance
- NEW: Opens and saves DOCX files of Microsoft Word 2010 lossless
- NEW: Cross references to headings or text
- NEW: Preview of templates in File > New
- NEW: The color of the workspace can be adjusted freely
- NEW: Automatic superscripting of ordinal numbers (2nd, 3rd etc.)
- NEW: Automatic conversion of URLs into hyperlinks
- NEW: Jump to the next or previous spelling or grammar mistake
- NEW: Additional number formats in enumerations and fields
- NEW: More TextArt variants
- NEW: Hide unwanted fonts for uncluttered font lists
- NEW: Improved formatting of calculations and fields
- NEW: New Microsoft Office 2010 AutoShapes are supported
- NEW: The sidebar enables quick navigation and formatting within a document
- NEW: Zoom slider in the status bar to quickly adjust the zoom level
- NEW: AutoFormat for tables
- NEW: Preview of stylesheets with a list of all formatting included
- NEW: Styles can be directly created from the formatting of a text and also be updated
- Compatible with Microsoft Word from version 6.0 up to 2010
- Reads and writes documents in RTF, HTML, Pocket Word, ASCII and Unicode
- Create PDF files (even PDF forms) directly from Ashampoo TextMaker 2012
- The stylesheet manager lets you manage your styles and copy them between different documents
- Graphic effects like reflections, smooth shadows and transparency
- Comprehensive drawing and image functions: Draw and design directly in your documents, compatible with Microsoft Word AutoShapes
- Crop pictures directly in the program
- Legends and list of figures
- Antialiasing for all graphics and drawings
- Calculations in text and tables
- TextArt gallery for easy pick-and-choose selection of pre-built type effects
- Extended paragraph formats like automatic numeric bullets, borders, shading, fill patterns, widow/orphan control
- Automatic line, paragraph, and headline numbering
- Automatic multi-language spell-checking (20 languages supported), thesaurus, and hyphenation
- Extended character formats like small caps, font color, hidden text, adjustable character spacing and character width
- Outliner lets you easily promote, demote, and rearrange passages of text
- Cross references, footnotes, endnotes, tables of contents, indices, bibliographies
- Insert fields like date, time, page, number, author, auto-numbers, etc. Calculations in text and tables
- Character and paragraph style sheets
- Kerning
- “Track changes” tracks all changes made to documents and lets you accept/reject them later
- Easy creation of forms with input fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists etc.
- Create lists and labels
- Creates, with one click, letters and faxes with letterheads, recipient’s address, and salutation already filled in
- Easy creation of mail merges and fax merges
- etc.
Ashampoo PlanMaker 2012 - Spreadsheet
Over 330 calculation functions covering various areas make the Ashampoo PlanMaker 2012 your perfect partner for spreadsheet. The improved compatibility allows lossless reading and writing of XLSX files (Microsoft Excel 2010). Furthermore user-defined numeric formats act exactly as in Microsoft Excel.
Complex charts and large amounts of data can easily be edited and formatted with the help functions such as syntax highlighting, filter functions, different grouping options or the formula checker. The new data consolidation provides you with very interesting statistical analysis of your unsorted or only partially sorted data.
The powerful chart module lets you easily create charts of your data and choose from over 70 chart types (2D and 3D). In this module charts cannot only be created in worksheet, but also on separate chart sheets. For the visual presentation of your data, there are different charts, such as column charts, bar charts, pyramid charts or pie charts, available. In the Ashampoo PlanMaker 2012 charts can now also be saved as image file.
Functions and new features at a glance
- NEW: Lossless import of XLSX files (Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010)
- NEW: User-defined numeric formats exactly as in Microsoft Excel
- NEW: Data consolidation: Extract useful statistical information from your data
- NEW: “Text to columns“: Splits text in cells according to a specified separator across multiple columns.
- NEW: Remove duplicate or empty rows with just one click
- NEW: External references (referring to cells in other files)
- NEW: Excel compatible functions: “copy down“ and “copy from left”
- NEW: New Microsoft Office 2010 AutoShapes are supported
- NEW: Chart types: stock chart and boxplot
- NEW: Create charts on separate chart sheets
- NEW: Save charts as image files
- NEW: Zoom slider in the status bar to quickly adjust the zoom level
- NEW: More calculation functions (AverageIf and IfError)
- NEW: More TextArt variants
- NEW: Hide unwanted fonts for uncluttered font lists
- Seamless document exchange with Microsoft Excel
- ASCII import/export assistant
- dBase import/export assistant
- External references (calculations that access external data)
- Detective (formula checker) helps to find errors in worksheets
- Scenario manager
- ‘Repeat command’ reruns the last executed command on a click
- AutoComplete for cells
- Search multiple pages at once
- Search with hit list
- Mark several worksheets and format them simultaneously
- Graphic effects like reflections, smooth shadows and transparency
- Crop pictures directly in the Ashampoo PlanMaker 2012
- Impressive new graphic effects for charts: smooth shadows, smooth edges, and transparency
- Over 330 calculation functions
- Supports complex numbers and array functions
- Numbers can be formatted as currency, with fixed decimal places, thousands separators, as percentage values, as fractions, as dates and times, etc.
- 70 different chart types (2D and 3D)
- Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 is not 1:00 but 25:00), negative times possible
- Goal seeker (solver)
- AutoSum, AutoProduct etc. automatically find the desired cell ranges
- Cell comments with arbitrary text formatting
- Nearly unlimited undo/redo
- Quickly select cell ranges from dialogs
- Freeze rows and columns
- Syntax highlighting
- Input validation
- Conditional formatting
- AutoFormat: Formatting with a mouse click
- Cell borders, shades, fill patterns
- Create forms with input fields, checkboxes, drop-down lists etc.
- Comprehensive drawing and graphic functions integrated: draw directly in the worksheet
- Comprehensive symbol library for flow charts and org charts
- Create font effects with the TextArt module
- Cell and sheet protection against accidental or deliberate modification etc.
- Password protection and encryption
- Create PDF files directly in the software
- etc.
Ashampoo Presentations 2012 – Presentation software
Ashampoo Presentations 2012 enables you to quickly create stunning multimedia presentations with animations and slide transitions based on the latest DirectX technology. There is a great variety of graphics available for your presentation. You could use one of the 25 professionally designed templates or different AutoShapes, for example.
For a more sensational presentation you can choose from different transitions, for example turn over slides like pages of a book, animate slides as a puzzle or let them burst into flames. Of course the program also offers various other effects, from unobtrusive via classy up to modern.
Multimedia content, such as movies or background music, can be added easily. Finally, you can save your presentation as a slideshow, PowerPoint file, HTML site or as a video.
Functions and new features at a glance
- NEW: Open and save PPTX files of PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 lossless
- NEW: Open and save password-protected PPT- and PPTX files
- NEW: Design masters can be easily copied in the master slide view
- NEW: Zoom slider in the status bar to quickly adjust the zoom level
- NEW: New Microsoft Office 2010 AutoShapes are supported
- NEW: Play sound files as background music across several slides
- NEW: The color of workspace can be adjusted freely
- NEW: More elegant design templates
- NEW: More TextArt variants
- NEW: Hide unwanted fonts for uncluttered font lists
- Great animations and smooth transitions based on DirectX technology
- Embedded fonts for easy export of PowerPoint files
- Export presentation as HTML websites
- Graphic effects like reflections, smooth shadows and transparency
- Insert movie and sound files
- Crop pictures directly in Ashampoo Presentations 2012
- Antialiasing for editing and presentation
- Add your own picture compilations
- Numerous attractive design templates
- Create your own color schemes and switch between them instantaneously
- Easily rearrange slide contents with pre-defined slide layouts
- Hundreds of object and text animations available
- Insert images in all common formats
- AutoShapes (100% compatible with Microsoft's AutoShapes)
- TextArt gallery for impressive type effects (compatible with WordArt)
- Built-in interactive outliner (outline view)
- Easily sort and manage slides with the practical mini sorter and full-screen sorter
- Run slide shows on a second monitor or a video projector
- Interactive presentation of slide shows with virtual pen and highlighter
- Automated presentations without a speaker (kiosk mode)
- Use notes as an aid to the speaker
- Handouts for the audience
- Create PDF files directly in the software
- etc.
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