Ability Office by Ability Software International

What is Ability Office?

Ability Office offers 3 core applications essential for home and business, Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation, in one affordable office suite. It also includes a Photoalbum and quick application Launcher. Just perfect for working from home, allowing files to be edited and exchanged with those back in the office, and absolutely ideal for students and school children.

It's so easy to get started with Ability Office, thanks to its very familiar user interface. Create, load from, edit and save to Microsoft® Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Ability Office is Windows 8 and Microsoft® Office 2013 compatible.

Write — Microsoft® Word compatible word processing

Gives you everything you need to create, edit and produce better-looking letters, reports, quotations, memos, mailings and newsletters. Write has all the features that you would expect from any top quality word processor — spell checker and thesaurus, bulleted and numbered lists, frames, tables, autocorrect, autospell, headers and footers, numerous paragraph and font options, interactive rulers, intelligent drag and drop editing, short-cut menus for easy text revision, the capacity to include graphics, spreadsheets and charts, plus a whole host of other essential features. Write also supports a wide range of file formats for export and import and is compatible with *.doc and *.docx file formats (Microsoft® Office 2010 and earlier).

Spreadsheet — Microsoft® Excel compatible spreadsheet

The perfect tool for managing all your numerical data, whether business information, home finances, complicated calculations or homework problems. To help you make sense of your figures, Ability incorporates all the essential elements users need from a spreadsheet program, as well as a range of advanced features — such as pivot tables and macros — to make working with numerical data as easy and clear as possible. Compatible with both *.xls and *.xlsx file formats (Microsoft® Office 2010 and earlier).

Presentation — Microsoft® Powerpoint compatible slideshow presentation

The ideal application for creating professional slideshow presentations, with a wide range of visual and text effects ensuring that your message is delivered with maximum impact. Make your presentations as simple or as sophisticated as you need with the combination of Ability’s familiar design interface and rich creative feature set enabling production of the highest quality presentations. Compatible with both *.ppt and *.pptx file formats (Microsoft® Office 2010 and earlier).

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Overview

How do I clean Ability Office?

Ability Office may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.

Clean Ability Office
with AppCleaner

If you want to clean Ability Office manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. There is one location in the file system where Ability Office stores data that can be cleaned.Additionally,Ability Office stores private data in five registry keys.

Registry

To clean the registry from data stored by Ability Office, you can use the Microsoft Registry Editor (regedit.exe) which is installed by default on all Windows operating systems. First of all, open regedit.exe by carrying out these steps:

• Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
• Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
• Type regedit.exe
• Hit Enter

Now use regedit.exe to delete the registry keys:

1. • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
   • Expand Software.
   • Expand Ability 6.0.
   • Expand Ability Write.
   • Right-click Files.
   • Choose Delete from the context menu.
   • Click Yes.
2. • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
   • Expand Software.
   • Expand Ability 6.0.
   • Expand Ability Database.
   • Right-click Recent File List.
   • Choose Delete from the context menu.
   • Click Yes.
3. • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
   • Expand Software.
   • Expand Ability 6.0.
   • Expand Ability PhotoPaint.
   • Right-click Recent File List.
   • Choose Delete from the context menu.
   • Click Yes.
4. • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
   • Expand Software.
   • Expand Ability 6.0.
   • Expand Ability PhotoPaint Studio.
   • Right-click Recent File List.
   • Choose Delete from the context menu.
   • Click Yes.
5. • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
   • Expand Software.
   • Expand Ability 6.0.
   • Expand Ability Spreadsheet.
   • Right-click Recent File List.
   • Choose Delete from the context menu.
   • Click Yes.

Files

To clean your file system from files stored by Ability Office and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system location. First of all, open a command prompt window:

• Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
• Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
• Type cmd
• Hit Enter

Now list all the files stored by Ability Office that can be cleaned:

1. Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\Documents/My Ability Files/*
   • Windows XP: Type dir /s %USERPROFILE%\My Documents/My Ability Files/*

Once you have identified the files stored by Ability Office that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.