Revisiting Floppy Office
November 10, 2007 by Jerome Locson
Filed under Computers
What will you do when you are in the remotest area in the world with no Internet access to click on your favorite web-based office suites and access your files and do editing with your reports? And what if, without the Internet access, the PC you’re using does not have any office suites installed and you are really rushing to do some editing with your reports, again and you have your files in your flash drive, memory card, or floppy disk? And installing Internet connection or desktop office suite is not the best option with the rush situation. I will go crazy, perhaps.
Anyway, having those questions in mind, I Googled some portable office suites that might be helpful in such situations. I came across the website of xtort.net which has this freeware called Floppy Office.
Floppy Office is a complete free portable software collection of small, self contained no-install free office software applications which enable the end use access to every tool, utility and program imaginable for home, business, and student users alike.
The zipped file is around 1.9MB. Yes! That small, requires no installation and it has the following tools in it:
An encryption program, a zip utility, an FTP client, a multiple document interface Rich Text editor, a notepad-style editor, secure file shredder, full POP email client, web server for hosting files via http, a mini tree-style outliner, vector graphics editor, a spreadsheet program compatible with Microsoft Excel, file renaming utility, and a PDF creator. Since these applications are so small, you may be wondering if these are all console applications. The answer is no — they all have a conventional, intuitive, graphic user interface.
Floppy Office can be downloaded here. Save one in your flash disk now! It might help you at times. ;)
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