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| Ability Office | |
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| Developer | Ability Software International |
| Initial release | September 1996; 29 years ago (1996-09) |
| Stable release | 11[1]  / February 2022 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Ability Office is anoffice suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of aword processor,spreadsheet,database, modules forpresentation and photo or image editing, plus aphoto/image organiser andvector line drawing application.
Development began in 1992 following a decision to replaceAbility Plus, an existing DOS-based integrated package, and a first release was made in 1995 called Ability for Windows and consisted of modules for word processing, spreadsheet, database and communications (aterminal program).
A second version was released in 1998 called Ability Office 98. The framework for the entire suite was changed from BorlandOWL to MicrosoftMFC resulting in better performance and the database was re-written to use theJet Database Engine.
Since then, modules have been added (an image editing module in 2000 and a presentation module in 2004) but the architecture has broadly remained the same with the step to a fullyUnicode version being made in 2008.
In October 2006, Tesco launched a range of own-brand software[2] that included Tesco Complete Office, a Tesco-branded version of Ability Office.
Corel (Home) Office, Corel Home Suite are based on Ability Office 5.[3][4]
