Downloadable software compatible with ms office

theGrinch

any suggestions of something i can download and use for existing excel and word documents
i have docs stored on onedrive but dont always have net access to access
thanks

Neil_Jones

And how do you propose to access to the Onedrive when you dont' have internet?

Anyway Libre Office will open the files.

PRAISETHESUN

Obvious choice is to buy a cheap version of MS Office. Otherwise +1 for Libre Office, a free open-source alternative.

DullGreyGuy

Libra, Open and Free Office are the main three, there are a few niche items if you're dealing with legal documents for example. 

When you want alternatives to Access, Visio and Project it can be a bit more difficult 

Vitor

You can get 15 months of the genuine article for £36 and avoid the hassle of figuring out Libre

Neil49

Go with Libreoffice. 

If you want to do any editing then you can change the default Save As format to Microsoft standards somewhere within the settings (could be in General). I did work for a large UK based charity which ran everything in Word and Excel but I had no issues using Libreoffice as an alternative. 

Heedtheadvice

The free apps probably cover greater than 95% of most users  needs with a slighy different look a d feel to them ( which is not necessarily  a downside).

The areas they can fail to meet needs are some of the advanced features, templates ( provided by other users for special activities and programmed code ( VBA ) though most of these are often not required for basic use by the casual user.

Download one of the suggestions and give it a go. For free what is there to loose?

Neil_Jones

Heedtheadvice said:

The free apps probably cover greater than 95% of most users  needs with a slighy different look a d feel to them ( which is not necessarily  a downside).

The areas they can fail to meet needs are some of the advanced features, templates ( provided by other users for special activities and programmed code ( VBA ) though most of these are often not required for basic use by the casual user.

Download one of the suggestions and give it a go. For free what is there to loose?

Libreoffice does support a good chunk of VBA, though its not complete:

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/lo/text/sbasic/shared/vbasupport.html

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DullGreyGuy said:

Libra, Open and Free Office are the main three

OpenOffice has been essentially unmaintained for a long time and should be avoided.