An office productivity software designed to integrate works of different editors across numerous platforms, IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 is easy to use, free, and provides editors to help the user create high end documents efficiently and quickly. The editors provided by IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 are:
. IBM Lotus Documents: This editor helps the user create high quality documents and includes tables, charts, spread sheets and graphics in them. The user is provided with numerous options to control the visual look of pages, sections of the documents or entire documents. Documents can be saved in a variety of formats. Some of the features provided by this editor include:
. Design features that enable the creation of basic as well as complex documents. In addition to the normally used tools, the editor provides a navigator used to control large documents and the objects inserted in them. A stylist is used to create and modify styles for individual characters and paragraphs as a whole.
. A calculator function to execute simple and complex calculations and links.
. Ability to draw images directly in the documents or insert graphic images via an image editor
. These images might have been created by the user from an external source or can be selected from a list of graphic images in a gallery.

. IBM Lotus Presentations Editor: This utility helps the user to create good shows with the help of graphics, charts, objects, text, multimedia and other related tools. Power point presentations can also be imported and modified. Some of the features of this editor include:

. Provision of templates for the creation of page and animation effects to create a dynamic page.
. Views are available to help the user design a screen show, for example; Handout view shows the text and the page needed to be presented while Page sorter view displays all the pages in a thumbnail manner. Rehearsals can also be done to optimize the presentation.
. Shows can be run automatically or on user demand. The shows can also be published online with the help of HTML documents or handouts.

. IBM Lotus Spreadsheets Editor: This utility helps the user create comprehensive and complex spreadsheets with the ability to perform calculations on, and manage data efficiently. Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets can also be imported. The features that come with this editor include:

. Ability to perform simple to complex calculations on data along with the use of functions including statistical and banking functions to name a few.
. What – if calculations enable a single operation change to have immediate effect on other related data values. Data can be usefully arranged with just a single click, cells can be hidden and various formats can be applied to the data ranges.
. Spreadsheet data can be presented in dynamic charts that are updated automatically with change in data.
System Requirements:

• At least 750MB of free disk space on Linux and at least 540MB of free disk space on Windows
• At least 512MB RAM memory