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Free MS Office Alternatives

by Barry Davis
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For those who can't afford, or choose not to pay for MS Office. Here's an article with some good alternatives.

Free Office 2013 alternatives | The Download Blog - CNET Download.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
    Very useful resource, I didn't even some of those even existed.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimvol
    Great stuff!! Thanks for sharing!
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  • Profile picture of the author khooster1
    You can try using Open Office. it is free and developed by Sun Mircosystems.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimvol
      Originally Posted by khooster1 View Post

      You can try using Open Office. it is free and developed by Sun Mircosystems.
      I have used Open Office before. It crashed on me a few times and I lost my data. That was about 4 years ago.

      Is it better now?
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      • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
        I use Open Office and it's been great. It's defnitely not MS Word, but it's adequate for my needs and best of all, it's free. I have had problems downloading and displaying things in an excel format, but other than that, I just mainly use the word processing function.

        There's been an update to it although I have not yet updated it.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanGillam
    Libre looks great for my needs. The thing I hated about Open Office is that it is difficult to find out the word count without going through the menus. Looks like Libre includes it right at the bottom in real time, same as Office. Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author glennshep
      It's certainly good to have the option of good, free alternatives! I used to use OpenOffice until the majority of the team left the project and carried on with LibreOffice. Since then I've been using LibreOffice and find it to be a fine piece of kit. I never had any problems with OpenOffice and haven't had any with LibreOffice. If you've got the cash and prefer MS Office then fair enough, but if you can't afford/don't want to pay for MS Office or just want a good alternative then you can't go wrong with LibreOffice. I haven't tried the new OpenOffice project, I may give that a go and see how it fairs
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      • Profile picture of the author exoduspress
        Open office, I believe, was taken over by Oracle, then donated to Apache. It got kind of buggy. I tried LibreOffice which I like. Depending on your needs, I actually prefer Google Docs. It's free, on the cloud, cross-platform and stable.

        Currently, it's better for more simple documents that don't have a graphic heavy layout, but it's awesome. I love saving a document on my desktop and picking it back up on my tablet or iPod. It will definitely depend on your needs. Thanks to the OP for the great resource.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Thanks for the list. I generally resort to Open Office though. It's pretty robust and is as simple as the MS Office suite.
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