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is there a good free alternative to Microsoft office?

  • February 17, 2016
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is there a good free alternative to Microsoft office? thanks, tommss
 

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Ssherjj
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  • February 17, 2016
Hello tommss,
 
 
I have found others who use Open Office  You can download it from their official site here (openoffice.org will redirect you to Sourceforge)
 
Hope this helps?

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  • February 17, 2016
Thank you Sherry 🙂 Tom

Nemo
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  • February 17, 2016
Hi Tom
 
I started using Softmaker FreeOffice over two years ago and have found it excellent. It works extremely well with all MS Office formats and is totally compatible. You can read about it here.
 
I did subsequently upgrade to the commercial version because at the time they had a tremendous offer and the cost was really minimal.
 
Regards
 
Nemo

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  • February 17, 2016
Nemo-Thank you very much-Tommss

nic
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  • February 17, 2016
LibreOffice is another alternative. It's an offshoot of Open Office and some people prefer it to Open Office.

RetiredTripleHelix
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Here is another one as well WPS Office: https://www.wps.com/

Ssherjj
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  • February 17, 2016
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Here is another one as well WPS Office: https://www.wps.com/
Thanks Daniel! I just installed this WPS Office to my iPad! 😉

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@ wrote:
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Here is another one as well WPS Office: https://www.wps.com/
Thanks Daniel! I just installed this WPS Office to my iPad! ;)
Cool I use it on my Android Phone!

Ssherjj
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  • February 17, 2016
@ wrote:
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Here is another one as well WPS Office: https://www.wps.com/
Thanks Daniel! I just installed this WPS Office to my iPad! ;)
Cool I use it on my Android Phone!
Really? I'm going to install it there too! Great!

  • Fresh Face
  • March 25, 2016
I've been using jarte.com for many years. Free, easy, flexible

Ssherjj
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  • March 25, 2016
Thanks for that jeffreymw
 
I will have a look!;)

JamesG
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  • March 25, 2016
Great input here!
 
I will echo ? and say I've been using Open Office for quite some time and have been pleased.

Ssherjj
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  • March 25, 2016
Yes Thanks James! I will look at  Open Office for my new laptop! 😉

  • Popular Voice
  • March 25, 2016
When I tried OpenOffice (admittedly some time ago) I found it worked well itself but the problem was when opening existing Microsoft Word docs the formatting , unless it was a very simple document, would be messed up. Maybe it has improved since or some of the others are better at conversion ?

remixedcat
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  • March 26, 2016
WPS office. Has the closest UI to MS office

Baldrick
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  • March 26, 2016
But I think that Libre Offie is probably the free 'market' leader, and I believe that one can now get a portable vesion of it. ;)