{"id":795,"date":"2006-03-20T21:35:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/thinkfree-office\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:04","slug":"thinkfree-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/thinkfree-office\/","title":{"rendered":"ThinkFree Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#39;t seen much hype (yet?) over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.thinkfree.com\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">ThinkFreeOffice <\/a>Online, the web based suite of Office like applications.\u00a0 Reminds me a whole lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.writely.com\/info\/WritelyOverflowWelcome.htm\">Writely.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I set up a &quot;free&quot; account with 30 MB of storage at the site that is still in &quot;beta&quot;.\u00a0 The first glance looks pretty slick.\u00a0 I tried out ThinkFree Office Write and it has the exact look and feel of Word.\u00a0 However, it appears to lack some of the collaboration features of Writely.com &#8211; they may be there and I just haven&#39;t found them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some quick features I found interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No software to download <\/li>\n<li>Create and store new files within the web browser (Java based) interface in common file formats <\/li>\n<li>Upload stored Office Word, Excel and Power Point files to view <em><strong>and edit <br \/><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li> Save as .pdf (but doesn&#39;t look like you get a URL for each file like Writely.com &#8211; could be wrong . . .)<\/li>\n<li>Save to blog feature (but didn&#39;t see an RSS feed for each file like Writely.com) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#39;s all I know for now.\u00a0 Here is a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javalobby.org\/java\/forums\/t65704.html\" target=\"_blank\">Writely vs. ThinkFreeOffice comparison<\/a> for more opinions.\u00a0 I&#39;ll keep testing it and report back how it goes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#39;t seen much hype (yet?) over ThinkFreeOffice Online, the web based suite of Office like applications.\u00a0 Reminds me a whole lot of Writely.com.\u00a0 I set up a &quot;free&quot; account with 30 MB of storage at the site that is still in &quot;beta&quot;.\u00a0 The first glance looks pretty slick.\u00a0 I tried out ThinkFree Office Write&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-one-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}