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Contents 
Introduction
Testing Compatability
Evermore Integrated Office
Lotus SmartSuite
Microsoft Office
StarOffice/OpenOffice
WordPerfect Office
Specifications
Final words
Editor's choice
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This is the new kid on the block -- hailing from China. On opening the application you might wonder whether you have opened Microsoft Office by mistake. Apart from a different logo and a recycled Microsoft "binder" on the left-hand side, it's not easy to tell the difference at first glance. The icons on the toolbars are all very nice Microsoft replicas.
Toolbars for word-processing, spreadsheets, and presentations all appear at once, with the outline of those buttons not relevant to the current document appearing in grey.
All document types are naturally saved together in a large binder file format -- keeping an entire project together in one file. A feature Microsoft abandoned. Files can be saved to Microsoft formats. Evermore includes a large selection of scientific-symbol auto-shapes and mathematical formula templates, and also a thesaurus.
Although similar to Microsoft Office superficially, it will still take some getting used to by Office users. It has its quirks, as all software does!
On a negative note, the program was inclined to fall over and refuse to start again until I rebooted the computer. Unfortunately, more than one column format cannot be supported on a single page. Being a new product we must make allowances, but it may well be better to wait before taking Wuxi-Evermore on board.
Evermore can be run under Windows or Linux, with more platforms in development. Three language versions, English, Chinese, and Japanese are available (a German version is now in development). Time will tell how well this new product competes with the market.
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Not a bad balanced review. What about all the advanced features like IRM, shared workspace with SharePoint Services, Integration with backend systems etc This is the true differentiation for users who want to do more than change fonts and add italics to a document. Word processing is hard to differntiate, but you ask a very advanced spreadsheet user what really works for them.