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[Peter Lewicke]

A huge amount of high quality free software is
available, and some of it is superior to similar
commercial software. Open Office is a complete office
suite that can save in Microsoft formats.
http://www.openoffice.org/ .  SourceForge is a central
 repository for opensource software of many kinds.
There are many thousands of programs available there.
http://sourceforge.net/ . Those are good places to
start, but there are more. 


--- Claire Pateman <clairepateman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Firstly, thanks to everyone who replied to my
> question about Tech courses - 
> greatly appreciated. Secondly - good luck to England
> in the World Cup!!! 
> Please don't ban me for that Lisa!
> 
> Ok - now on to my real question. As a tech writer I
> find that there are more 
> and more software programs that clients/employers
> require. I am wondering if 
> anyone knows of freeware/cheap shareware progs that
> I can use to familiarise 
> up-and-coming tech writers with before they commit
> to buy the big boys. The 
> three areas that I am looking at are: DTP (eg.
> Quark), Help(eg. Robohelp or 
> Flare), Diagrams (eg. Visio). I have found a few on
> Tucows and Download.com, 
> but any that other that fellow tech writers would
> say were worth a look then 
> please let me know. I want my students to be able to
> evaluate software that 
> gives them a good idea of what the more costly
> programs will involve so that 
> they can assess where they want to specialize before
> forking out lots of 
> cash.
> 
> Have a great weekend,
> 
> Claire
> 
> 
>
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