Alternate to MS Office !?

[Mike Hankey]

I've used OpenOffice for many years, I don't use it a lot but it does what I need it to do.

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[Lost User]

Another vote for OpenOffice. I've got it on USB, and also use Calc and Writer on systems where Office is installed. It does not come with a Ribbon, does not have those annoying and useless gradients. It's small and fast, but the way it displays a Word-document might differ slightly from Word itself, which may result in empty pages when viewing it in Word.

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[Brisingr Aerowing]

Personally I like LibreOffice, as it has a ton of features. It is a very active fork of OpenOffice that was created when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, due to fears about what Oracle would do to the suite. It even has LDAP Support (e.g. Active Directory)[^]!!!

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[Nemanja Trifunovic]

If you are connected to the Internet all the time, take a look at MS Office Online[^]. It is free and may be enough for your needs.

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[Chris Losinger]

Google Docs is good. their Sheet thing isn't as powerful as Excel (nothing is), but it's good for basic stuff.

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[Joe Woodbury]

I've tried the various OpenOffice products and hated them. Office 365 Personal can be purchased from Amazon for $69.99! If desperate, log into your OneDrive account and use the online Office stuff; it's pretty fantastic.

[Slacker007]

Google docs?

[ZurdoDev]

OpenOffice and Google Docs. Both great and both free.

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[Pualee]

I used OpenOffice a while back. I didn't like it because... it looks like it is compatible with MS Office, in most ways, but is just enough different to drive you nuts. If you are handing off any documents in electronic form to an office user (or vice versa) you could get into compatibility/display problems which will look unprofessional. On the other hand, if none of the documents will leave your computer, and it is just for tracking your own information, it will be fine.

[mikepwilson]

Yeah, I'll second OpenOffice. I DO use Office 365 at home. But that's only because I'm doing some work at home that requires it. OpenOffice does far far more than I need, and does it well.

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

I would go for LibreOffice instead. It's a fork of OpenOffice since Oracle screwed the OpenOffice pooch. Also, look into Office365 from Microsoft. It's online and I believe there's a free version. Also, for simple documents, Google docs is pretty good. And the Google's spreadsheet is actually fairly rich.

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[Mark_Wallace]

Kingsoft rocks.

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[Jeremy Falcon]

It cost like $200 to buy Word and Excel. I'm not *that* pro MS usually, but $200 for all the crap you can do with those two programs isn't that bad of a deal. That being said, last I checked OpenOffice was extremely compatible. Just as another alternative, the KDE project makes Calligra[^].

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POV - US$200 seen from India is one hell of a lot more than US$200 seen from US (or Singapore for that matter). I could be disparaging about Indians not wanting to spend money on software when they are in the industry but that would be bigoted/racist or just plain rude!

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[JMK NI]

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[bkyee]

Since you mentioned programming related, I assume you are doing VBA macro for your customers. Your customers are most likely use MS office, and your programming work with Office alternates will not able to use in their environment. I believe Office 365 Home is the cheapest solution.

[Asgard25]

Used OpenOffice for many years, actually still have it installed on my personal laptop. Works just great:thumbsup:

[Member 10707677]

I used to use OpenOffice, but Oracle stuffed it up. I've since changed to LibreOffice for PC and Kingsoft WPS for tablet. Navigating tables within word documents has a few odd quirks within LibreOffice, but they are easily dealt with. I deal with documents of a sensitive nature and have limited resources, so web-based and Office365 are off the table.

[Nagy Vilmos]

Go for LibreOffice.

[JeremyBob]

Basically it all depends on how advanced a user you are, and what your requirements are. Personally I find LibreOffice is more than up to the task for my needs. I prefer it to OpenOffice for personal reasons. If your requirements are more basic, I recommend Google Docs. The collaboration and sharing features are excellent, and its always nice having cloud access to your stuff when you are out of home/office. On top of which you can access and use it on your phone if necessary. I use GoogleDocs for most of my needs, and keep Libre around, just in case there is a new docx/xlsx from a client that I need to open, and docs is on the fritz.