good ofice substitute for win 7

[Soundguy]

what do you guys use as an office suite substitute.

working mostly with word and xl docs


I have 'works' on an older xp netbook, and full office on my win8 stuff.. but ther eis one lonely win7 laptop at work that needs -something-

 

[aczlan]

Libre Office - https://www.libreoffice.org/
Free, works fairly well going back and forth of MS Office (complicated formatting used to get messed up in conversion with older versions).

Aaron Z

 

[Gunny]

Try Libre Office (I think that's the right spelling), an offshoot of Open Office. I downloaded on an old laptop, but one of the kids "borrowed" the laptop before I got to fool around with it much.

 

[Soundguy]

thanks, will give it a try! ( libre )

 

[brin]

what do you guys use as an office suite substitute.

working mostly with word and xl docs


I have 'works' on an older xp netbook, and full office on my win8 stuff.. but ther eis one lonely win7 laptop at work that needs -something-

Chris, You might want to give this one a try....this is what I replaced Ms. Office with...I like it a lot.
Apache OpenOffice - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

 

[MossRoad]

I also recommend Open Office. My oldest used it through Junior and Senior High with no problems. There are some converters that are needed to open the newest forms of MS Office files, but they are free as well.

 

[Bird]

I used Microsoft Works for years. It would do everything I wanted in the way of word processing, spreadsheets, and database and I would have liked to stay with it. I had it on Windows 7, but apparently it's not available for Windows 8 and 8.1. So now I'm finally using MS Office. I had to download one of those free conversion programs to convert all my old files. Office has lots more "features" that I don't need, so it's OK, but no better than Works for me.

 

[Soundguy]

i loved works.. but with my new stuff being on 8.. office. never did like word...

 

[dmccarty]

I have been using Open Office, and now Symphony which is IBM's version of Open Office, for years. I have not had a problem reading MS Office files, the price is right, FREE, and more importantly, I do not have to use MS buggy software while paying more money to Bill and his crony's.

Later,
Dan

 

[bdobson]

Libre Office and open office are basically the same prg just watch out for the extras that get loaded with them decline each extra and you will be ok. No problem opening any office doc just remember to save any doc you create in office format, if you need to share with someone using ms office. And the price is right free

 

[rekees4300]

what do you guys use as an office suite substitute.

Apache Open Office

https://www.openoffice.org/

 

[farmgirl19]

Add one more to the Open Office users. I began using it a couple of years ago, and use it with Win 7.

 

[George2615]

Kingsoft is what I use for basic documents on my Win 8 desktop.

 

[Soundguy]

all we need in the back office is to be able to open spreadsheets and word docs.

as it is now.. he emails them to me, I convert them to something like rtf ( for the word docs ).. or the spreadsheets i print inter office.. etc..

 

[dirt ditch]

I used Open Office with good result for years until my boys needed MS Office for school and it's license was good for 3 computers.

 

[MikeFarm]

Hiya

Vote +1 for Open Office or Libre office. They are open source AND the file format OpenDocument (odf) is an open standard (ISO 26300) AND both will do all of your requirements. Here is a recent review with a quick compare of Libre vs OO:
What LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice Have Taught Me and there are other reviews, just search Google. Best is just pick say LibreOffice (make sure its the official Libre site) and install and play with it. The interface will be different to MS Word but not more so than the next version of MS Word is to the present one
(The entire story of word processing document file formats is decades long and very nasty from one particular company.)

Mike