Customer Reviews

SMARTSUITE MIL ED 9.8.2

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I have used Wordpro since it was Amipro in the early 90's. I also use MS Word because so many documents come to me in that format.
I much prefer Wordpro. In many ways, most prominently graphics handling and layout, and ease of text formatting, Wordpro is the better program.
This is another example of the better product being outdone by better marketing. Try Wordpro -- you'll never go back to Word.

Smart Suite millenium edition is quite a good office product; I have used it as a backup for MS OFFICE, when some files will not open in MS OFFICE, or if they fail, SMART SUITE will open them, or ... and this is the best of it... it will actually repair corrupted MS EXCEL and MS WORD files... it seems to restore the template.
The biggest, and silliest ommission is LOTUS NOTES ,which is not on SMART SUITE 9.8 .... the original Smart Suite Millenium edition had the NOTES App in it, and losing a key product in the Suite is such a disaster.

As always, the Organiser works Beautifully... possibly the best PIM this side of a Palm Pilot.

The best bonus is that the basic apps will run from the DISC alone. You do not need to install this suite to use the SmartSuite basics, like wordpro etc... you can run this amazing product straight from the Disc !!! Can MS Office do that ??

These programs are so far superior to MS Office it isn't funny. I used to try to struggle with "Word" because, well ya have to, but now i just set my system to open Word files with WordPro & I can edit save & send the unenlightened thier files without having to use the stupid program. I find it very sad that such a beautifully intuitive set of programs such as this is left behind while the bloated & ridiculously complicated MS Office wins the day. But as was said, that's marketing for you. Lotus Notes would be an obvious choice to keep with it though.

Lotus smartsuite is written in very tight code, and will run on very low powered computers!

I noticed that some of the reviews mention Notes, which is a particularly powerful business tool. So powerful, Microsoft decided recently to hire one of the key architects of Notes, so they could come up with their own version!

Scalable, powerful! smartsuite is a full blown business tool for office and home. In fact, if you were to go on the IBM campus, the official office sute IS smartsuite! Smartsuite can be ported to the largest mainframe computers, as well as the slowest desktop. Yes Smartsuite will run without a glitch on a 300mhz system with 64 megs of memory... and NOT dog down!

Their macros are not compromised with viruses.

Smartsuite had voice recognition 4 years before microsoft began to put it in their product.

The weak link in smartsuite is their web designing tool. It will design a very simple website.

I just wonder why IBM has not been more proactive in the continued development of this bellmark software product, and why it does not have a huge market share.

Microsoft office is a world class product. But, if you are on a budget with a small computer, and need an office suite that works and works without crashing... smartsuite is an excellent choice.

For those of you that have never used this product i suggest give it a try. One of the best products that will give you exactly what you need and intergrate into just about any system. The product comes with everything you need, does what it says it will do and will save a bundle over MS products. The menus are clean, easy to use without having to hunt for what do i do next. Great product and Worth the investment!

I have many old Lotus 123 files which I could not open in Excel 2003 or 2010. The only way I have found to convert the .123 files is to save them under Lotus 123 as .xls files, then open the new files in Excel. This version of Lotus SmartSuite works in Windows XP but not Win 7 Home Premium/64 bit. It does work in XP Mode of Win 7 Pro/64. It solves my problem.

I have been waiting to get WordPro back for years now. WordPro was my wordprocessor of choice in the early 1990s and I have loads of files that MS Word would not translate. This brings them all back!

Please direct me to an in depth source for writing/recording macros or scripts for the 9.8 SmartSuite. I began using Lotus when Lotus Development Corporation produced Version 1 of 123. Then employment musceled the use of Microsoft Office and all the stuff that goes along with it. There are some changes I would suggest that IBM could make, assuming it is capable--e.g., fix the mouse scroll. Nevertheless, some of the high powered manuals--SmartSuite Bible--do OK, but are rather shallow.