MicroSoft Office Alertative

[T-Bone]

Looking for an alternative to MicroSoft Office. I dont want to have to pay a year subscription and I dont like the new version of Outlook. I mainly use, Outlook, Word, Excel and Publisher. Any info from the business guys would be awesome.

Thanks
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[jck]

Google is the next best thing. It's browser based and functions pretty much the same way.

Google Docs (word), Google Sheets (excel), etc

[Man]

Unfortunately.....Google

[SaltwaterSlick]

Pick your poison... One thing I found out, is if you buy a new computer directly from a manufacturer (in my case Lenovo), they can install MS Office Professional or Home on it and you can pay a one time fee that is part of the price of the computer. There is no recurring yearly/monthly fee. A consumer cannot purchase the software any longer but a manufacturer can... That's what we started to do.

[planomustang]

fff

I use openoffice, from Apache. It is free, and you don't store you data on Google.

A little clunky, when compared to MS Office, but you can do nearly everything you can do with MS office.

https://www.openoffice.org/

[SaltwaterSlick]

Travis,
Here's the link where you can add it to a Lenovo laptop or desktop... This is Office Professional that includes everything. There are lesser licenses on their site... I'm sure other manufacturers have the same deal...

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/software/office-suites-downloads/Microsoft-Office-Professional-2019-license-1-PC/p/78010707

[IamShado]

I use openoffice, from Apache. It is free, and you don't store you data on Google.

A little clunky, when compared to MS Office, but you can do nearly everything you can do with MS office.

https://www.openoffice.org/

I second OpenOffice. It's not as polished but gets the job done.
Google is the best, honestly, if you don't mind supporting Google.

[Tryton]

I third Open Office. Very usable replacement for Microsoft Office.

[T-Bone]

thanks for the info, I got a little over whelmed trying to look at alternatives.

[nando]

https://www.libreoffice.org/ is another option.

[Olphart]

Been using Open Office for years now. Does what I want for documents or spreadsheets.

[dhall1414]

i'll add another vote for openoffice

[WItoTX]

If work didn't pay for my MS Office subscription, I would get OpenOffice.

[Les]

Do you get a lot of pop ups with Openoffice??

[Pushbutton2]

Do you get a lot of pop ups with Openoffice??

No pop ups for me in the 4 years or more I've been using it. It's free open source software