Almost all Windows users install Microsoft Office suite in their computer system. Microsoft Office is one of the essential software which are installed immediately after a fresh installation of Windows OS.
We use Microsoft Word to create documents, MS Excel to create spreadsheets, PowerPoint to create slides for meetings, etc. But the sad part is that Microsoft Office is not free and you need to spend lots of bucks to purchase it.
Many people download or purchase illegal pirated copies of Microsoft Office to use. Wouldn't it be great if you could get an absolutely free Office suite which works similar to Microsoft Office and can be used as an alternative to Office suite?
Today in this topic, we are going to share a few free Office suites which can be used as alternative to Microsoft Office:
1. OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is one of the most popular open-source office suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.
2. Kingsoft Office Suite
Kingsoft Office Suite is a complete Office suite which provides a UI similar to Microsoft Office 2003. Its very light on resources and runs very fast. It comes with Kingsoft Writer (Microsoft Word), Kingsoft Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel), Kingsoft Presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint) and Built-in PDF converter. Its highly compatible with almost all Microsoft Office file formats.
3. SoftMaker Office
SoftMaker Office is a full-featured office suite that comes with a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a presentation-graphics program. SoftMaker Office comes with TextMaker (Word processor), PlanMaker (Spreadsheet) and SoftMaker Presentations (Presentation graphics). You can download a fully functional version of the SoftMaker Office 2008 office suite using following link:
4. IBM Lotus Symphony
IBM Lotus Symphony is a richly-featured set of productivity tools like Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. Lotus Symphony is based on the open source OpenOffice.org code and supports the Open Document Format (ODF) standard, which means you're not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades.
5. LibreOffice
LibreOffice is the power-packed free and open source Office suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
6. KOffice
KOffice is another free Office suite which comes with KWord which is an intuitive word processor application with desktop publishing features, KCells which is a fully-featured spreadsheet application, Showcase which is a powerful and easy to use presentation application, Kivio for diagramming and flowcharting and Artwork for drawing vector graphics.
Please let us know your opinion about these free alternatives to Microsoft Office suite. Which one do you like the most and why? Feel free to share other free alternatives if you know...
This article was posted by VG in following section: Microsoft Office, Software.
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Mushaf
Kingsoft Office looks good. I'll give it a try.
odio
From this list i only used OpenOffice, and dont like it. He is not "fluid".
Omar
Microsoft Office came preinstalled with my computer but when I reinstalled XP it wasnt there,so I decided to get Open Office,but it was too complicated because I was used to the MS Office UI.So I uninstalled it and used wordpad instead. :P
But when VG featured Kingsoft Office(a long time ago),I immediately downloaded it.I am now satisfied with it.I recommend everyone one of you to check it out.
Thank You VG! :)
maxdamage
Kingsoft Office was recently mentioned here and I downloaded and all I can say is wow!.I have an old version of openoffice which was v2.4 and that took up 331MB of disk space.Kingsoft Office only took up 173 MB.
vince
Yes. Kingsoft Office Suite 2012 free is very good. I was impressed. Much better than Microsoft Office and the rest as well..
Somebody
Meh, nobody will ever beat good old Microsoft at the Office game.
TLM
KingSoft is King!
Jorge-6025
Funny thing is, KingSoft makes online MMO games as well. Cool, eh? But they're not very good games. :(
sidspyker
I've used OpenOffice and LibreOffice, I find Libreoffice better.
macpro622776
VG why does your version of Word have a 2010 UI, but a 2007 icon at the top left corner and an office button rather than a file (backstage)?