What is Ability Office?
Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editing, plus a photo/image organizer and vector line drawing application.
Features
Write - Word Processing
Compatible with Microsoft® Word 2016 and earlier
PDF or XPS export for your documents
AutoSpelling, AutoCorrect & AutoText
Vector Drawing layer, Autoshapes, Linked Frames & Tables
Indexing, TOC, Sections, Task Panes & WriteFX effects
Spreadsheet - Spreadsheets
Compatible with Microsoft® Excel 2016 and earlier
PDF or XPS export for your spreadsheets
Pivot Table Wizard, Vector Drawing layer, Autoshapes
Over 250 built-in functions & 25 different chart types
Set Print Area, Page Break Previews, Cell Property Pane
Presentation - Slideshow Presentations
Compatible with Microsoft® PowerPoint 2016 and earlier
PDF, XPS, HTML Web-Album & Image export for your slides
Thumbnail Outliner, Slide Sorter & Master Slide View
AutoShapes, Pictures, Charts & WriteFX effects
Spell Checking & Thesaurus
Database - Database Management
Compatible with Microsoft® Access 2003 and earlier
PDF or XPS export for your database reports
Advanced Query Designer and Relationship Manager
Automatic or Wizard generation of Forms and Reports
Interactive Mail-merge with Write & Spreadsheet
Photopaint
A feature-rich photo and image editor that will instantly feel familiar, both in interface and functionality, to users of Adobe® Photoshop. Its fundamental components include paint tools, colour palettes, brushes, selections, special effects filters and layers, delivering you the ability to create the exact graphical effects and edits required. Compatible with both Adobe® Photoshop *.psd and all other mainstream graphics file formats.
Features
Write - Word Processing
Compatible with Microsoft® Word 2016 and earlier
PDF or XPS export for your documents
AutoSpelling, AutoCorrect & AutoText
Vector Drawing layer, Autoshapes, Linked Frames & Tables
Indexing, TOC, Sections, Task Panes & WriteFX effects
Spreadsheet - Spreadsheets
Compatible with Microsoft® Excel 2016 and earlier
PDF or XPS export for your spreadsheets
Pivot Table Wizard, Vector Drawing layer, Autoshapes
Over 250 built-in functions & 25 different chart types
Set Print Area, Page Break Previews, Cell Property Pane
Presentation - Slideshow Presentations
Compatible with Microsoft® PowerPoint 2016 and earlier
PDF, XPS, HTML Web-Album & Image export for your slides
Thumbnail Outliner, Slide Sorter & Master Slide View
AutoShapes, Pictures, Charts & WriteFX effects
Spell Checking & Thesaurus
Database - Database Management
Compatible with Microsoft® Access 2003 and earlier
PDF or XPS export for your database reports
Advanced Query Designer and Relationship Manager
Automatic or Wizard generation of Forms and Reports
Interactive Mail-merge with Write & Spreadsheet
Photopaint
A feature-rich photo and image editor that will instantly feel familiar, both in interface and functionality, to users of Adobe® Photoshop. Its fundamental components include paint tools, colour palettes, brushes, selections, special effects filters and layers, delivering you the ability to create the exact graphical effects and edits required. Compatible with both Adobe® Photoshop *.psd and all other mainstream graphics file formats.
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Categories
Office & Productivity • Photos & GraphicsTags
- Email Client
- graphics
- Photo Editor
- Presentation
- Photo Album
- Office Suite
- photoalbum
- Vector Graphic
- Database

Ability Office
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Ability Office, and it has gotten 2 likes
- Developed by Ability Software International
- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- Average rating of 4.5
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Ability Spreadsheet well a bit dated to use has better compatibility with excel than Softmaker's PlanMaker which has a lot of "place holder" functions that don't do anything but allow you to open and save Excel files with out actually being able to truly work with them.
In my testing I am yet to run into a excel spreadsheet that doesn't work properly in Ability Spreadsheet.