FREE Application & Tools

Links to FREE Accounting Applications from Intuit and Microsoft.

Links to Microsoft® Office templates and add-ons, including an Office 2007 file format (OOXML) conversion tool for Office 2003/XP users.

Links to popular FREE Office application alternatives from Sun, IBM, and Google.

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Accounting Applications

QuickBooks® Simple Start® 2009 for Windows

Easy-to-use free small business accounting software to manage your business better.

  • Be ready at tax time
  • Stay organized
  • Look more professional

NOTE: Simple Start is for first-time QuickBooks users. It cannot import data from prior versions of QuickBooks, Quicken, or Peachtree.

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Microsoft® Office Accounting Express 2008

Save time, get organized, and do business online with the complete accounting solution for small business FREE.

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Microsoft® Office Tools

Microsoft® Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® 2007 File Formats

Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft® Office Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® 2007

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Microsoft® Office Online

Templates: Resumes, calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, and more

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Office Applications

Sun™ OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.

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IBM® Lotus® Symphony™

IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge.

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets™

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.

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