free office suite required.

Legacy_user

Can anyone recommend a small office suite please. I only need it for producing letters. Clearly spelling errors being identified is of importance.

wiogs

libre office or open office - both free.

http://www.libreoffice.org/

https://www.openoffice.org/

SailorSam

http://www.wps.com/windows/

steppevos

another vote for LibreOffice.

davetrousers

islandman wrote: »

spelling errors being identified is of importance.

Make sure you have an English spell checker, not American.

Bollotom

Also a "Grammar Checker" as spell checkers can be a pain. For instance "The read rabbit red the read book" will pass a spell checker. :cool:

Neil49

SailorSam wrote: »

http://www.wps.com/windows/

I also like WPS office suite. It isn't as large as Libre (which I also use) and Open Office (on which Libre is based). I only found out about it following a review in Computeractive magazine and they gave it a very good write up.

WPS used to be called Kingsoft and the initial download (for me) used that name, but a subsequent update brought in the WPS logo. It provides word processing, spreadsheet and powerpoint functionality and you have the option of selecting ribbon or older style layouts.

As it's free (and small which is what you are looking for) it is certainly worth trying out

fenlander_uk

Another vote for WPS Office. I have WPS and MS Office on my Windows PC and always use WPS. On my Linux PC I have WPS and Libre Office - and always use WPS.

System

Thanks for all that. I've gone for the Apache Open Office. If I get on with it, fine, if not it will be to one of your recommendations.

spud17

Does WPS still open a browser link back to base, on starting?
Very annoying when I tried Kingsoft.

RumRat

spud17 wrote: »

Does WPS still open a browser link back to base, on starting?
Very annoying when I tried Kingsoft.

I take it you mean the home page in WPS itself? Only if you have that option selected.....The other option is to open to 'New document', it then opens as just that....