The Office Rival -- an All-Rounder at an Extremely Attractive Price: Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentations With Ashampoo(R) Office 2012

OLDENBURG, GERMANY--(Marketwire - Dec 15, 2011) - Whether it is used in the office or at home -- the new office suite from Ashampoo meets all requirements. And best of all: Ashampoo Office 2012 is completely compatible with Microsoft Office.

Facts at a glance:

• NEW: Ashampoo Office 2012
• Office suite for word processing, spreadsheet and presentations
• Compatible with Microsoft Office 2010, 2007, 2003 and more
• Introductory price: $39.99 (instead of $59.99)
• For users of the previous version:$29.99
• Link: http://www.ashampoo.com/products/0538

Ashampoo Office 2012 is suitable for "office professionals" as well as novice users. Whether it is letters, flyers, spreadsheets or presentations -- Ashampoo Office 2012 puts great emphasis on the users' requirements and this at a most favorable price. Similar to its predecessor, Ashampoo Office 2012 can be easily and flexibly launched from a USB flash drive anywhere.

"With this office suite we provide our users with a comprehensive and more importantly low-priced alternative to other office suites. At the same time, however, our program does not suffer a loss in quality. From our point of view the compatibility with the most common formats and its low price make Ashampoo Office 2012 the best office suite which is currently available on the market," said Rolf Hilchner, Ashampoo-CEO.

Ashampoo TextMaker 2012 -- Perfect word processing
Ashampoo TextMaker 2012 offers everything one would expect from modern word processing. Regardless whether it is the easy task of creating a letter or the elaborate production of brochures or flyers -- the Ashampoo TextMaker 2012 is your proficient office and day-to-day partner. The program's comprehensive compatibility with the most popular formats (.DOC and .DOCX or rather Microsoft Word 6.0 up to 2010) and the saving as formats RTF, HTML, Pocket Word ASCII and Unicode equips the user for all professional and private tasks. "Simplification" was also extremely important. Quick navigation with the sidebar, automatic conversion of URLs into hyperlinks or AutoFormat for tables -- these are just a few improvements that make everyday word processing easier.

Spreadsheet can be this beautiful!
Altogether 330 calculation functions, support of XLSX files (Microsoft Excel 2010) and new AutoShapes -- the list of new features for the Ashampoo PlanMaker 2012 is long. Furthermore user-defined numeric formats act exactly as in Microsoft Excel. Functions such as syntax highlighting, filter functions, different grouping options and the formula checker make Ashampoo PlanMaker 2012 the all-rounder for spreadsheet. The conversion of collected data into colorful and clearly structured charts -- whether it is 2D or 3D, pie charts, column charts, bar charts or pyramid charts, is easy even for new users of the Ashampoo PlanMaker. The possibility of saving a chart as different graphic file formats allows an easy transfer to other processing programs.

Presentations made easy with Ashampoo Presentations 2012
Ashampoo Presentations 2012 provides everything that you need for entertaining presentations, thanks to numerous new features. Slide transitions with animations based on the latest DirectX technology are quickly created and visually appealing. Altogether 25 pre-installed slide designs allow users to resort to the available creative templates. With just a few clicks videos and images can be added as multimedia support for textual content. Whether it is a video, an HTML variant, a slideshow or a PowerPoint file, there are hardly any limits for the type of presentation with Ashampoo Presentations 2012.

Website: www.ashampoo.com

About Ashampoo GmbH & Co. KG

Ashampoo is one of the leading Internet-based companies worldwide in the field of software development, sales and web portal sites. Ashampoo's innovative software products set technological standards right from the start and are known for their advanced, mature technology and usability.