Ever found yourself out and about on business and you need to make a change to that word document or spreadsheet? A last minute tweak to the sales presentation you’re about to make? And, horror of horror, you realise that you have incompatible software.
Now you can word process on the move through an internet browser – no fuss, no frills, and no file format issues, using ThinkFree. You’ll need to register, then you can choose to upload any documents you want to be able to work with. You get 1GB of free space, which should be plenty for day to day use. There is a premium service that provides much more storage space and cool drive syncing features, but you don’t need to sign up for this to take advantage of the basic features.
Once you load a document you can choose to open and edit it – either using Quick Edit with limited options, or the more complicated Power Edit with many of the features you see on your desktop word processor. The site’s software is compatible with most basic MS Office features so you should have no problem making changes to existing documents.
Alternatively you can choose to create a new document from scratch and have it available for you to edit where ever you happen to log on to the ‘net.
One feature I particularly like is the ability to share your document over the web, which allows others to work on the page.