Alternatives to microsoft office

Keanosafc

Hi, I've just got a new laptop with vista and a trial version of office 2007, I can't afford to buy this, and currently use office 2003 on my desktop with xp.

I've tried installing office 2003 to my laptop but this didn't work.

i'm basically looking for a free alternative to microsoft office.

I've found the mozilla thunderbird which can by my alternative to outlook express.

GaryS

Take a look at OpenOffice, it's free.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Willowx

Open office found at openoffice.org is a good basic set of programs.

I like it but the beauty of it being free is if you don't like it you don't have to keep using it.

Willow

Keanosafc

Thanks I'll have a look at it, is it totally compatible with ms office, ie. for excell, word, it's just we have working docs that we use at home

GaryS

OpenOffice will open Word & Excel files.

Conor_3

The next generation of OpenOffice, ver 3, will be able to open Office 2k7 files

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With some Office programs Open Ofiice is more compatible than Office. We have trouble opening older Access databases in Access but there's no problem opening them in Open Office.

Tony_Kingham

Open Office is excellent.

I used it for a short while when I had a laptop in for repair.

Lakeuk

Try the Portable Apps version of Open Office


http://portableapps.com/suite

alanclarke

IBM has recently released Lotus Symphony which includes Word Processor, Presentations and Spreadsheet. It's free to use and the web site says it's compatible with Microsoft formats. It's based on OpenOffice.

I have not tried it, details at http://symphony.lotus.com

superscaper

I never understood Lotus releasing that. You may as well get the more up to date OO directly.