Most anyone these days has Microsoft Office installed on a home or office computer. For all its power and technical excellence, the standard set of features soon becomes not enough. To get more, users buy a specific piece if software called an add-in (add-on, plug-in). There're many add-ins on the Web but not at one location. Going from one website to another in search of a necessary plug-in can be somewhat cumbersome and takes too much time. Hopefully there's a new solution that promises to make finding an add-in a lot easier.

Officeaddins.com is a website that can help you find any add-in quickly. Designed as a directory, Officeaddins.com offers visitors a growing library of add-ins that are specifically designed for Microsoft Office apps, including Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint. There one can find plug-ins for OpenOffice too.

Officeaddins.com breaks down its library of add-ins into several categories depending on what they do. You will find the categories, such as ?Business and Finance?, ?Database and Analytics?, ?Internet and Communications?, ?Format and Data Transformations?, and that's just a beginning! The ?Backup and Recovery? category, for example, contains add-ins that enable Office apps to back up and recover information, such as Word documents or passwords to protected Office files. For instance, there's a plug-in for Excel that can restore a lost password to a protected workbook in a few seconds, letting you access your valuable data again without the need to spend days to re-type everything from scratch. All add-ins are designed professionally and documented well.

One more very useful category is ?Business and Finance? which deals with business-related Office add-ins. Currently there are plug-ins for data manipulation, personal information management, project management, accounting and tax, forecasting and analytics, planning and budgeting ? there's everything for everyone!

Some categories are new to the website, so there aren't yet too many add-ins in them but the team behind Officeaddins.com is working really hard and more Office plug-ins are soon to come. New add-ins are shown on the right side of the home page in the column labeled ?New Links?.

Each category has its RSS feed, so you can keep track of new additions to the Officeaddins.com from the convenience of your RSS reader, even without having to visit the Officeaddins.com directory.

Search, sort, and find add-ins quickly

As you enter the home page, you can see the search box on top. This is a great way to start your search for an Office add-in on the website. Just enter the name of the plug-in you're looking for, or enter a keyword and click Search. In a few seconds, the website returns the listing of apps that match your search criteria. Each add-in comes with a screenshot of the program interface and a summary that includes the name of the add-in, its author, brief description, Download link, release date, version, price and system requirements. If you like the add-in, you can recommend it to others by rating it or leaving a comment to help other people in their choice.

There's a lot more on the website to help you find an add-in you need. When you come to Officeaddins.com, you can see several checkboxes on top of the page. They can help you sort the add-ins by different criteria. You can sort the plug-ins by Office type: Microsoft Office or Open Office; license type and price: free, less than $20, $20-50, $51-$100, more than $100; Office application: Excel/Calc, Word/Writer, Access/Base, Outlook, OE, etc. Simply click the appropriate checkbox and the website displays the listing of all relevant add-ins. If you don't like what you see, you can choose a different sorting option or even a combination like OpenOffice+Calc.

Submit your add-ins to directory for free

Officeaddins.com gives professional programmers an opportunity to submit an add-in, add-on, plug-in, which is designed for Microsoft Office and Open Office, and it'll be hosted on the website for free. Relevant articles are welcome too. They can be posted via a web-form for free publication. The team behind the website spends much time, promoting it to the internet audience of prospective customers, so developers of Office add-ins can win from the marketing efforts of the website, and the sweetest thing is that it's completely free.

Officeaddins.com is a great way to go when you need an Office plug-in. Go there now and check out what everyone out there is offering for Word, Excel,Outlook, Access, Calc, Writer, Base ? all in one place.

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