Alternatives to Microsoft Office

[ColchesterFC]

My mum and stepdad have bought a new laptop. It will only be getting very occasional use which means it's not really worth them paying for Microsoft Office. They'll only be using it for very basic stuff like writing letters and maybe the odd spreadsheet. Does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives, mainly for Word and Excel, that I can suggest to them. It needs to be something that they can install on the laptop rather than Cloud based and the simpler it is to install the better. Cheers.

 

[Kellfire]

OpenOffice is by far the best alternative in my experience.

 

[davie24]

Star Office. From memory it is a free download,at least it was. Cant vouch for it,been a few years since I had it.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

OpenOffice is by far the best alternative in my experience.

We have used this at work for the last 15 plus years. We have had no problems with it.

 

[Leftie]

OpenOffice is by far the best alternative in my experience.

Free and looks/feels virtually the same as MS Office

 

[jim8flog]

An older copy of Microsoft office

such as ebay item no.

323916505090

I still use this version and it does everything I want it to do

 

[ScienceBoy]

Libre Office

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Another vote for Open Office,
Has a set up and style very similar to Office 2003, none of this ribbon lark 👍

 

[Slime]

Libre Office

Libre Office for me.