Microsoft Office alternative Kingsoft Office available for Ubuntu

Kingsoft Office is an office suite developed by Zhuhai based Chinese software developer Kingsoft. Components include: Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft Presentation and Kingsoft Spreadsheet. Kingsoft Office personal version is completely free. With the Kingsoft Office suite, you can view, edit, and send Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and other data on Linux. This offers most of the features and functionality like Microsoft Office.

 The Kingsoft Office main interface includes a row of icons similar to what you'd find in your basic word processor or spreadsheet editor. It handles all the latest Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file formats as well as text and PDF files. You can create files as well, it could get a bit tedious trying to produce anything too long or complicated. Kingsoft Office works best for making a few changes to an existing file. In our tests, we encountered no problems working with the files we threw its way, and it was a simple process to add or edit text or make other modifications.

What's in this release:

• Added: Check Spelling for non-English language.
• Fixed: Cannot use native Open and Save dialog boxes in KDE.
• Fixed: Printer settings do not take effect in Kingsoft Office.
• Fixed: Cannot open PDF file directly after exporting to PDF.
• Fixed: Cannot launch multi-instances of the same component in same user with different X desktops.
• Fixed: Missing File button on the Insert tab.
• Fixed: Incorrect formula result when insert a formula to the table in Kingsoft Writer.
• Added: Supported PivotTable function in Kingsoft Spreatsheets.
• Changed: Unified the templates dir to ~/.kingsoft/templates
• Fixed: The program crashed when change some options in options dialog without open a document.
• Fixed: The program crashed when pass a relative file path to program by command line.
• Fixed: Cannot to match fonts in different locales.
• Fixed: The width of WordArt control adapted to the dialog size.
• Fixed: Cannot storage settings about font and style to normal template in Kingsoft Writer.
• Fixed: Missing option "Auto convert straight quote to curly quote" in Kingsoft Writer.
• Fixed: Cannot hide Grid and Guides in Kingsoft Presentation.

To install Kingsoft Office in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
>> For 32bit

cd && wget -O kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb http://goo.gl/E67ycD
sudo dpkg -i kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb
rm kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb


>> For 64bit
Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
cd && wget -O kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb http://goo.gl/E67ycD
sudo dpkg -i kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb
rm kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb


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