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