SSuite Office Software

We support international document standards, like the open “Rich Text Format - *.rtf ” and the excel file format “Excel - *.xls ”. The open rich text document format is compatible with any operating system (Apple Mac, Linux, and Windows) and office suite, unlike Microsoft's Word document format and OpenOffice's Open Document format.

They on the other hand, can only be opened by an office suite, who's developers have paid the exorbitant license fees to read and write the proprietary Word document format, for example - Open Office, Star Office and other offspring of these office suites such as Text Maker, Shampoo Office etc. (All of which has to have Java Virtual Machine to run on)

Independent office suite developers have to create their own proprietary format, or go with the Open Rich Text Document format. As most people do not know, Rich text documents can hold the same contents as any Word document, and is also much smaller in size when being created. It is only the extension and inner record keeping that is different.

I have recently discovered that OpenOffice's Open Document format (*.odf) is just Rich Text dumped inside their own Open Document format wrapper. So do not get caught out with vendor lockin, not even from the open source community.

So wake up to the truth and switch today to our excellent office suites that support Open Rich Text Documents.

Please read the following articles on why you should be using the Rich Text Document format:

Article 1     Article 2     Article 3     Article 4     Article 5

If you need to create and open Word documents(*.doc) as a rule, then there is another way in staying completely compatible with SSuite's WordGraph documents (*.doc). Simply save all your documents in MS Word in the following manner:

• When you save your documents in Word, use this format... Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF (*.doc).

To simplify this procedure, simply go to the "Tools|Options..." menu item, and under the "Save" tab item, select your default document type as the above mentioned document type. This will ensure that all your documents will stay compatible no matter where you need to use them, either in MS Word or SSuite Office's WordGraph wordprocessor. This procedure may also be used in Word 2007.

All Excel documents created in SpreadForm One and Accel, are fully compatible with any spreadsheet application that can open and read the Excel file format. Excel files created in Excel itself, are locked to prevent other office suites from being compatible with MS Office. To open these locked Excel files, follow the steps below.

Please Note! - This procedure cannot be used in Excel 2007. Microsoft does not support older formats in Office 2007 that are below Office 97. Click here for further details.

For compatibility with Excel, use the following method:

To make a Single Excel 97(or Higher - 2003) worksheet compatible with SSuite Office's SpreadForm One and Accel, follow these steps:

1. Save your active Excel 97(or Higher - 2003) Worksheet as an Excel 4 Worksheet.
2. Immediately save the same worksheet as an Excel Workbook, using the "Save As" function,  with a different name as the worksheet.
3. You can now open your Excel 4 worksheet in SpreadForm One or Accel as an Excel spreadsheet.

Please Note - For further information, see the helpfile under File Handling.