ms office other options?

shaun40400

morning all

i need word and spreadsheets,it also needs to be readable by folks who use ms,,,is that possible??

I don't need €129 for Microsoft

thanks shaun

Baldur

Open Office - default file save type can be set to Word/Excel formats, as required.

spiro

If you have children you can buy the top version of MS Office for about £80 at software4students and install it on 2 pcs.

shaun40400

Baldur wrote: »

Open Office - default file save type can be set to Word/Excel formats, as required.

WILL HAVE A LOOK THANKS

spiro wrote: »

If you have children you can buy the top version of MS Office for about £80 at software4students and install it on 2 pcs.

THATS 129 EURO OVER HERE AND WHAT IM TRYING TO AVOID ,,,THANKYOU FOR YOUR SUGGESTION,MAY GO THAT WAY IF THE OTHER IDEA DOESN'T WORK

SORRY CAP LOCK SEEMS TO BE LOCKED LOCKED:o:o

prost

There's free office suites at
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/wordprocessors.shtml

DCFC79

Theres open ofice as been mentioned, there are others but i think open office is the best alternative

Knarf44

Fans of Open Office may already be aware that at the end of September this year some members of the OpenOffice.org Project Team started a new group called "The Document Foundation". They have made available a rebranded version of Open Office called "Libre Office". See:

https://www.thedocumentfoundation.org/download/

for more information.

busenbust

Abiword also -- but only an alternative to MS Word; u can save in the .doc extension.

HTH>

busenbust

^^it's a very light install too!

Baldur

shaun40400 wrote: »

THATS 129 EURO OVER HERE AND WHAT IM TRYING TO AVOID ,,,THANKYOU FOR YOUR SUGGESTION,MAY GO THAT WAY IF THE OTHER IDEA DOESN'T WORK

It will work, just set the Load/Save defaults as required - see below screen capture, accessed from Tools>Options: