Needed software to make business charts

[Wiley Woodwrkr]

Hi hope I have the correct forum for this inquiry?

I have never had a need for what I now have a need for, which is a software? I`m guessing that you can lay out? Business charts I guess for lack of a better word.

What I need to do is create some pages with things like circles, squares, rectangles, pie charts, etc, and also be able to add text, to make a page that would be printable, full size for a standard size sheet of typing paper.

I see stuff like this all of the time, but haven`t a clue how people make it up.

What I am hoping for is info for whatever gets this done, on a program, that is hopefully a freebie, or VERY low cost, as I probably won`t have much need for this long term. Sure don`t want to by some pricey software for a 1 time.

Now I have tried what I`m talking about on Winblows Paint, and I have an older copy of PSP but I`m doing a LOT of work, and not getting much return.

Any thoughts???

Any and all help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Wiley

[great_dame]

Please do not post your software problems in the Downloads & Reviews forum (showthread.php?t=58596)

I believe you mistakingly posted a problem in the area where experts supply their good finds for helpful software.

[Miz]

Since Microsoft Office can do what you want in both Excel (spreadsheet) and Word (word processor), perhaps one of the free office suites has the same capability.

Both 602 PC Suite (http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/) and Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/) support MS Office formats, both are free and both have spreadsheet and word processor applications.

[Wiley Woodwrkr]

great_dame, sorry, but actually I really did post in the wrong forum, it was the one titled Graphics, lil did I know that it was only graphics in regard to web site developement. They told me to post here........

Miz, thanks for the thought, hadn`t heard of the 602 PC Suite, might give it a look. I have Open Office, seems to have been possibly created for Linux market??? Yes, No?? Anyhow the file type it saved in was able to opened on my computer alone, as it had the software on it. I couldn`t get it to change it`s identity, to let say a jpeg, gif, or anything mainstream. Long and the short of it, I abandoned it, but then again I`d used their version of paint, not the spreadsheet, or word processor, I`d have to do some reading to get there I`m guessing.

Anyhow I reverted to what I already knew, just updated. I had PSP ver4, and got ver9 it does a bang up job of what I needed, easily stores as jpeg so anyone can view, and wasn`t nearly as difficult as with ver4. Got a break on E-bay, a lic ver of 9 for $11.00, was a Dell OEM, works great.

BTW cust service at Jask software, makers of PSP are super, they talked me right into what I needed, great for a software dummy like me. In case anyone does a search, and finds this thread. I`d suggest the latest legal copy of PSP, thats Paint shop Pro, much less than the higher priced Adobe software, and very able for your basic want to do pics, free form as I`d done, or just about any graphic manipulation you`d want to do.

Thanks for your input
Wiley