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Originally Posted by Pugchief
2 other non-MS options both work well for me:
If you prefer installed software, the free LibreOffice is very similar to MS Office and can be configured to use the same file extensions by default. I have used it for years with near zero issues.
If you are comfortable with or prefer cloud based apps, Google Drive is terrific if not superior. It requires a free Google account that includes 19GB of free storage. Then go to Google Drive: Sign-in and click on +New and you can start or process any MS Office file. |
I use LibreOffice too. I stopped using MS Office in the early 2000s and switched to OpenOffice, but LibreOffice had some database functionality that I couldn't get with OpenOffice so I switched to that instead when it became available for beta-testing. LibreOffice has replaced OpenOffice at this point, it's the successor.
LibreOffice is open source, as secure as your computer (however secure you've set your computer to be), has around the same functionality as MS Office Professional (not home version, it's much more advanced than that), and will translate MS document, spreadsheet, and database extensions just fine. It's freeware, though they do accept donations. LibreOffice is hosted by the Document Foundation, which took over after Oracle retired OpenOffice. These are all derived from the original version founded by Star Division in 1985, and the public version released by Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s.