Included Software:  

For just $49, EasyOffice Premium promises everything—office software, server software, accounting software, antivirus software… the list goes on. Unsurprisingly, they don’t manage to deliver on everything. Their antivirus, project management and graphics suite, for example, hardly warrant their titles. The included productivity software in EasyOffice, however, is functional and mostly straightforward.

Given that every product included under the EasyOffice umbrella has “easy” in its name, we expected superior ease of use. EasyMail, EasyPresentation, EasyImage and EasyPad, to name a few were nearly identical to their windows counterparts and very straightforward.

Word Processing and Spreadsheet Features:  

EasyOffice Premium’s flagship programs, EasyWord and EasySpreadSheet, were, like other Easy software, mostly clones of their Microsoft Word counterparts. This ensured that they were familiar and easy to use. EasyWord and EasySpreadSheet both suffer from unnecessarily convoluted dropdown menus that are anything but easy to deal with. But, if you don’t mind digging around a bit, both programs are perfectly functional.

EasyOffice Premium won’t dish out too many compatibility problems. EasyWord can open and edit Microsoft Word 2007 files without any hiccups. EasySpreadSheet also reads Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Keep in mind that you can’t save documents into Microsoft 2007 file types. Instead, you have to save edited items as standard DOC and XLS files.

Key Productivity Features:  

EasyOffice Premium features productivity tools both large and small. In our test runs, all of them were functional, few of them were exceptional. The most useful member of the EasyOffice suite was EasyPDF—a straightforward PDF converter and editor. With EasyPDF you can turn any document into a PDF and add text and other elements to existing PDF files.

EasyOffice’s email client, EasyMail, includes a calendar and scheduler that performs well. You won’t find any bells or whistles in EasyMail’s menus, but for basic contact management and planning it will meet most users’ needs.

Customer and Community Support:  

With EasyOffice, you’re mostly on your own. Provided you know how to use the software, that’s not necessarily a deal breaker. But, if you’re looking for an active community and live customer support, EasyOffice might not be the ideal choice.

Considering that EasyOffice is available for under $50, it is quite a deal. EasyOffice is a functional office suite complete with a word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation software and mail client mostly riffed from Microsoft Office 2003. We were impressed by EasyOffice’s attention to file format compatibility and found the core elements of the office suite useful as well as easy to use.

Be sure to see how EasyOffice compares to the competition by reading reviews of WordPerfect Office X4, Microsoft Office Professional and StarOffice, our award winning selections for office software.

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