free eqivilant to office

[wegotitugetit]

is there any free eqivilants to microsoft office i have a documtnet i need to open and need a office or something similar for free

 

[jgs001]

www.openoffice.org, that works nicely, and is pretty good compatibility wise.

 

[Astraeus]

Open Office. I've used it and it's very user-friendly, a good all-round suite.

http://www.openoffice.org/

 

[petersmart]

Open Office easily - why pay £hundreds to Microsoft when you can get Open Office for free?

 

[aligibbs]

I think there is a free office "viewer" for certain file types. It allows you to open the document, but not make changes. Might be worth a try if openoffice can't open it.

 

[wegotitugetit]

open office looks good to me

thanks peeps

 

[luckylukey7]

Neo office is excellent for Mac but not sure if this available for PC?

Thanks,

Luke.

 

[Musicman]

Neo office is excellent for Mac but not sure if this available for PC?

It's a dedicated Mac OS X fork of the Open Office project, so no.

 

[d2000]

+1 for OpenOffice ...has been around for years and keeps getting better.

 

[bastic]

if you do not want to download/install any software, use google and its word processing tools https://www.google.com/accounts/Ser...llowup=http://docs.google.com/&ltmpl=homepage

 

[fido18]

Openoffice is my suggestion also

 

[wegotitugetit]

open office was spot on thanks

 

[stev101]

i agree open office

 

[RichHobson]

Open office gets my vote although I'm looking closely at Google docs to be able to use online. I use google calendar and it's excellent.

 

[JasonRS]

No one mentioned Office Live????

http://www.officelive.com/en-GB/

If you've got Hotmail / Live you've got access to it. Just upload the file to SkyDrive (that 25GB of storage MS give you for free) and them open the doc from there.

 

[tintin]

No one mention Open Office yet?

 

[rob_c]

Another vote for open office here!

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I use open office now after years of microsoft office. will never go back

 

[trencheel303]

Personally I wouldn't call Open Office friendly, I spent about ten minutes looking for how to change the font colour and promptly gave up. If one just needs Word processing, Abiword is a much nicer, smaller package similar to Word and is again free.

 

[Suvv]

Personally I wouldn't call Open Office friendly, I spent about ten minutes looking for how to change the font colour and promptly gave up. If one just needs Word processing, Abiword is a much nicer, smaller package similar to Word and is again free.

The help file quickly tells you how to change font colour.
A drop down option is also on the Formatting Toolbar, to view different Toolbars click on View / Toolbars and then select which ones that you want to see.

 

[Mr Rudesing]

I used Open Office for a while, and although it was OK for basic spreadsheets and word processing, I couldn't quite get used to the slightly different functions and menu layout. To be honest, this is probably because I us MS Office all day at work rather than any problem with OO itself. But, I then found out that if you are an employee of a large firm that has an MS Office user license, then there is a little know "Home Use" scheme that enables you to buy MS Office for a discount price (using a code provided by your employer). I just bought MS Office Professional 2010 for £8.95 (download, but only an additiona £10 for a disc). Definitely worth looking into if you or any member of your family work for large employers.

 

[Dene]

just a heads up its getting confusing now seems people have moved on
the open office is still there but a new documentfoundation.org has sprung up to develop that now i think

a split from oracle ?

and a good alternative with added features to open office is http://www.go-oo.org/

OpenOffice, the free office suite spin off allied to Oracle; http://www.openoffice.org/

LibreOffice, the free office suite now issued by the wholly independent Document Foundation. http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/