Ability Write gives you everything you need to prepare, edit and present better-looking letters, reports, quotations, memos, mailings and newsletters.
Apart from the features that you would expect any good word processor to have - spell checker and thesaurus, bulleted and numbered lists, a wide range of file formats for export and import, headers and footers, numerous paragraph and font options, clear and helpful interface, interactive rulers, intelligent drag and drop editing, short-cut menus for easy text revision, the capacity to include graphics, spreadsheets and charts, and many other essential features - Ability Write also has the unexpected:
- industry-standard "look and feel"
- mail merge to Microsoft Access files, even if you don't have Ability Database
- user-defined selecting, sorting and querying of mail merge data from within Write
- a multi-lingual facility
- table creation with full editing capabilities, including splitting or merging of cells
- full import of Microsoft Word documents, even those containing tables and images
- printing of non-consecutive pages or ranges
- creation of PDF files from Write documents
- Recent Files and Folders sidecar menus to help you locate and open folders and files quickly
- creation of special text effects through Write FX
- Macros - use VBScript, OLE automation and programmable forms
- styles, templates, frames, call-outs, captions, and columns
- advanced fields capability to allow direct linking to spreadsheets and databases, including live sharing and changing of information across applications
Ability Write on its own helps you get down to work on all your word processing tasks; as part of a suite it helps deliver the first-class integrated power of Ability Office.
There are many new features and improvements to existing features within Ability Office Professional's word processing package. Probably the single most important improvement is the completely new support for opening and saving of MS Word documents. The result is faster, more accurate imports of more complex documents than with previous versions.
New features include the addition of sidecar menus on the main File menu options "Save As" and "Send As" which enable the saving of files or sending of email attachments in a range of familiar formats, including MS Word, RTF and PDF. Support for generation of Adobe PDF files now includes image compression, file encryption and the options to merge pages into, or concatenate pages onto, an existing PDF file.
Major word processing features added in version 4 include Autocorrect and Autotext, Auto-Spell that will highlight spelling errors as they are typed, a Grammar Checker for English, French, German and Spanish, Label generation with Avery standard sheet references, and a Hyperlink function.
AutoSpell in action, with right-click menu of suggestions.
Grammar options dialog.
Labels definition dialog, displaying a standard Avery Video Face design.
Further improvements include support for clipboard RTF format, the ability to wrap mail merge fields in paragraphs and improved functionality for HTML import and export. Non-printing characters can now be displayed to aid layout editing. Inserting images is much easier through integration of the image selection and organisation features of Ability PhotoAlbum.
Sample text displaying space, paragraph and 'soft-return' markers:
