Microsoft office

phoebe03cat

Have just bought lovely new PC running windows 8. Need Microsoft word and spreadsheet only really out of the suite. Are any of the freebies as good pls and are they compatible with word as all family history on excel spreadsheet. Questioning now whether office is still the way to go. Thanks for help

richard9991

phoebe03cat wrote: »

Have just bought lovely new PC running windows 8. Need Microsoft word and spreadsheet only really out of the suite. Are any of the freebies as good pls and are they compatible with word as all family history on excel spreadsheet. Questioning now whether office is still the way to go. Thanks for help

Libra office free to download

boxst

Open Office is okay: http://www.openoffice.org/

It is free, so give it a go.

-TangleFoot-

richard9991 wrote: »

Libra office free to download

It's LibreOffice.

More info about both of the aforementioned here.

alanclarke

You can download a free version of Microsoft Office Starter which contains a cut down version of Word & Excel at https://www.snapfiles.com/get/officestarter.html

John_Gray

But read this Wikipedia section about Office 2010 Starter edition...

Then probably use LibreOffice, as suggested above.

esuhl

LibreOffice is mostly compatible with MS Office, depending what you want to do. For general use (i.e. if you know what every feature in MS Office does) then you probably won't run into any compatibility issues.

Toxteth_OGrady

MS SkyDrive lets you create Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in the cloud.

-TangleFoot-

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

MS SkyDrive lets you create Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in the cloud.

As does the service formerly known as Google Docs.

yangptangkipperbang

esuhl wrote: »

................ if you know what every feature in MS Office does...............

Is there such a person ?

Jazzy_B

I'd go for Libre Office too