Free MS Word?

HO87

Given that a lot of the original development team on OO jumped ship to the Document Foundation (which then forked into LibreOffice) when Oracle announced (entirely predictable when they took over Sun Systems) that they couldn't support the ongoing open source project, the future for OO is probably fairly dim. Unless a new - altruistic - supporter is found OO is probably going to wither on the vine but perhaps common-sense would suggest that OO and LO might re-merge.

That having all been said I have recently moved over to LO 3.3 (from OOo 3.1) and whilst I know that a fair bit has been done "under the hood" since the split there is very little visual difference from OO. I agree - a thoroughly good replacement for the Microsloth slab.

krishna

AbiWord is another good alternative to MS Word or LO/OO. Much quicker to load than any of the others, but does have some compatability problems with complex formatting in MS Word, etc. I like to use it for short, simple documents that need a bit more than Notepad/Wordpad.

spenderdave

Did try AbiWord a while back and was very disappointed, there are HUGE compatibility problems with MS Word. And of course it is only Word, it does not do Excel or Powerpoint.

prowla

The question was about M$ Office, not OpenOffice (or LibreOffice).

The OP requested info about M$ Office, and the answer was given in Post #5.

krishna

spenderdave wrote: »

Did try AbiWord a while back and was very disappointed, there are HUGE compatibility problems with MS Word. And of course it is only Word, it does not do Excel or Powerpoint.

For an excel substitute I now just use Gnumeric spreadsheet. Again, lightweight, fast and can read Excel files without difficulty, unless you get into macros, etc. Rarely use powerpoint, except at work.

johnatho

The question was about M$ Office, not OpenOffice (or LibreOffice).

Actually it was about MS WORD.

If all you need is a word processor why not use wordpad, supplied free with Windows?

prowla

If you want to be pedantic about it, its name is Microsoft Office Word ("Word" is not all in uppercase).
And maybe if the thread had been entitled "Are there any free alternatives to MS Word?", then Write might've been a valid response.

clinteestwood

open office is decent. you could also try Abi Word, thats fairly ok too!

johnatho

("Word" is not all in uppercase).

But I was SHOUTING TO MAKE SURE YOU NOTICED.

Snakeeyes21

oh come off it you lot, the op wanted a link to where to download a decent illegal copy with the instructions on how to register it using the microsoft phone activation.. which is surprisingly easy even a child could do it.. even easier than getting windows 7 for free :rotfl:

even though this is a money saving site, we couldnt possibly give out this information as we wouldnt have a clue where to start as I know every member on this site is whiter that white and they all pay microsoft and the like a load of hard earned dosh for the privilidge of using their bloated crappy software

Please note.. I do not condone piracy*



*well, maybe a little bit