Top 5 Best FREE MICROSOFT OFFICE Alternatives (2020)
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Date: 2020-05-09
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Kimba
In my opinion LibreOffice is better than Microsoft Office, because it has even more features to offer, can read, import and export every standard and old known document format, it is available for every major computer OS besides Windows AND most importantly it's absolutely free!!! You get the latest version with every pro-feature!!! LibreOffice is NOT harder to use than MS Office and easy to learn and to understand!!! And the installation is easy!!! On Windows use an Installation-Wizard and on Linux use Copy-Paste to command line, .deb-installation-file or visit the software center to install (On MacOS idk)! Just give it a try and learn it and then you'll realise how good it actually is!!!
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In my opinion LibreOffice is better than Microsoft Office, because it has even more features to offer, can read, import and export every standard and old known document format, it is available for every major computer OS besides Windows AND most importantly it's absolutely free!!! You get the latest version with every pro-feature!!! LibreOffice is NOT harder to use than MS Office and easy to learn and to understand!!! And the installation is easy!!! On Windows use an Installation-Wizard and on Linux use Copy-Paste to command line, .deb-installation-file or visit the software center to install (On MacOS idk)! Just give it a try and learn it and then you'll realise how good it actually is!!!
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Phil
I m no MS fan-boy...monopolies and duopolies generally suck but come on guys, there s a reason why MS Office exists on MacOS, iOS, Android and even some Linux distros. If you don t wanna pay 365 prices, go on eBay and find a whole-seller. I got my mom Office 2019 for 8 and it s legit. How do I know? It allowed her to use her Outlook to activate the license and she uses it all the time without any problems. The reason I decided to party-poop is I just can t stand the lack of support for basic power features on the spreadsheets in the free suites (formulas, individual cell formatting, file linking, macros, content control methods/objects, etc)
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I m no MS fan-boy...monopolies and duopolies generally suck but come on guys, there s a reason why MS Office exists on MacOS, iOS, Android and even some Linux distros. If you don t wanna pay 365 prices, go on eBay and find a whole-seller. I got my mom Office 2019 for 8 and it s legit. How do I know? It allowed her to use her Outlook to activate the license and she uses it all the time without any problems. The reason I decided to party-poop is I just can t stand the lack of support for basic power features on the spreadsheets in the free suites (formulas, individual cell formatting, file linking, macros, content control methods/objects, etc)
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Paul
OpenOffice is just a very old version of LibreOffice and it is a bit of a scandal that Apache has let a couple of people keep up the pretense that any developers really work on OpenOffice any more. Oracle got the trademark for OpenOffice when it bought what was left of Sun Microsystems and for reasons best understood by themselves, took the trademark away from the developers and gave it to the Apache Foundation instead. So the developers who had been working on OpenOffice all along picked a new name, LibreOffice, and kept going, but the OpenOffice name and website still point to what amounts to an ancient snapshot of the project.
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OpenOffice is just a very old version of LibreOffice and it is a bit of a scandal that Apache has let a couple of people keep up the pretense that any developers really work on OpenOffice any more. Oracle got the trademark for OpenOffice when it bought what was left of Sun Microsystems and for reasons best understood by themselves, took the trademark away from the developers and gave it to the Apache Foundation instead. So the developers who had been working on OpenOffice all along picked a new name, LibreOffice, and kept going, but the OpenOffice name and website still point to what amounts to an ancient snapshot of the project.
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The
I didn't stopped using MS OFFICE after 2010 version because it was pricey but because UI and working compatability is horrible and nothing of what I use to work on. Also their Microsoft chain of collecting and mining data so I'm out of the chain altogether. I use WPS office plus their PDF reader as it has all the apps everywhere plus cloud support as BETA as of now and libra office for Linux and windows. Use Google Docs only if you don't ever about being tracked or being locked out of your account all of a sudden one day with no customer support at all.
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I didn't stopped using MS OFFICE after 2010 version because it was pricey but because UI and working compatability is horrible and nothing of what I use to work on. Also their Microsoft chain of collecting and mining data so I'm out of the chain altogether. I use WPS office plus their PDF reader as it has all the apps everywhere plus cloud support as BETA as of now and libra office for Linux and windows. Use Google Docs only if you don't ever about being tracked or being locked out of your account all of a sudden one day with no customer support at all.
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MISComputerNET
I have been using OpenOffice and then Libre Office more than a decade and I am very happy with it. MS Office look and feels slightly better, however as another commenter mentioned here, it is not worth to pay that much money only for the look. Nowadays, I am also very excited to use Google Drive and its products as there is a strong trend towards cloud computing. And I have noticed that, for instance, Google Sheets come with lots of new and interesting features, which will beat MS Excel in the near future, I believe.
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I have been using OpenOffice and then Libre Office more than a decade and I am very happy with it. MS Office look and feels slightly better, however as another commenter mentioned here, it is not worth to pay that much money only for the look. Nowadays, I am also very excited to use Google Drive and its products as there is a strong trend towards cloud computing. And I have noticed that, for instance, Google Sheets come with lots of new and interesting features, which will beat MS Excel in the near future, I believe.
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charles
I bought a computer recently. I have no Microsoft Office in it as I need not want one as what I do with the IComputer is tosee the internet and send email. For that I need no Microsoft Office. But recently the Microsoft has blocked the screen of my computer with a demand for me to buy the Microsoft Office. It has now even blocked my access to intzernet. I am at a lost not knowing how to remove this Microsoft blocking my Computer screen. Can any one help. Is it a way of contacting Microsoft to inform my predicament.+
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I bought a computer recently. I have no Microsoft Office in it as I need not want one as what I do with the IComputer is tosee the internet and send email. For that I need no Microsoft Office. But recently the Microsoft has blocked the screen of my computer with a demand for me to buy the Microsoft Office. It has now even blocked my access to intzernet. I am at a lost not knowing how to remove this Microsoft blocking my Computer screen. Can any one help. Is it a way of contacting Microsoft to inform my predicament.+
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Brenten
There is one major application you are missing that MS office 365 has that none of the freebie version has. MS Outlook and Exchange. To make a real complete package, you will need something like Exchange to handle all your e-mail needs. Of course, I prefer if I had my own but besides the point. I really need to have something like Outlook. I need to patch into multiple e-mails, calendars, contacts, and be able to export all the information over to the new version without having to re-add it all back in.
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There is one major application you are missing that MS office 365 has that none of the freebie version has. MS Outlook and Exchange. To make a real complete package, you will need something like Exchange to handle all your e-mail needs. Of course, I prefer if I had my own but besides the point. I really need to have something like Outlook. I need to patch into multiple e-mails, calendars, contacts, and be able to export all the information over to the new version without having to re-add it all back in.
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Dragan
A question: I KNOW that powerpoint in WPS office 2016 has the option of CONVERSION your pptx presentation to mp4 format, suitable for youtube (but the version 2019. doesn't have this option, which is so odd). The same ability has Microsoft office, the same conversion. I am pretty sure that Libre office and OpenOffice don't have this option. What about the other programs you mentioned? Do some of them have the option of conversion from ppt(x) presentation to mp4 video format?
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A question: I KNOW that powerpoint in WPS office 2016 has the option of CONVERSION your pptx presentation to mp4 format, suitable for youtube (but the version 2019. doesn't have this option, which is so odd). The same ability has Microsoft office, the same conversion. I am pretty sure that Libre office and OpenOffice don't have this option. What about the other programs you mentioned? Do some of them have the option of conversion from ppt(x) presentation to mp4 video format?
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Maaifoedie
OpenOffice is the only one that doesn't use that despicable ribbon menu, which no one ever wanted since 2007. That's why I only use MS Office 2003 (not a single new and useful function has ever been added to any MS Office suite after Office 2003, up to the present). So, if I had to use a free Office Suite, I'd use Apache OpenOffice. Even FreeOffice, my previous favourite, has recently sold out to the ribbon, and I promptly dropped it.
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OpenOffice is the only one that doesn't use that despicable ribbon menu, which no one ever wanted since 2007. That's why I only use MS Office 2003 (not a single new and useful function has ever been added to any MS Office suite after Office 2003, up to the present). So, if I had to use a free Office Suite, I'd use Apache OpenOffice. Even FreeOffice, my previous favourite, has recently sold out to the ribbon, and I promptly dropped it.
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Ayanesh
I have thought about that but customers want (.docx). I know every alternative can convert documents to (.docx) format but there is always something different at the end when I open it through Word. Even if there are no differences at the end product, if I tell my customers that I will not work on Word or Exel, they expect me to work on Docs or Sheets. You can't ignore the power of brands.
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I have thought about that but customers want (.docx). I know every alternative can convert documents to (.docx) format but there is always something different at the end when I open it through Word. Even if there are no differences at the end product, if I tell my customers that I will not work on Word or Exel, they expect me to work on Docs or Sheets. You can't ignore the power of brands.
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