are there any full-free alternatives to microsoft office?

Question

if you can tell me what they are and where you get them from, im not paying £340 for microsoft

Answer 1

try open office

http://www.openoffice.org/

Answer 2

Try Open Office, it's an open source project and completely free. It has it's own file extension by default but can also save in Microsoft Words Doc extension. This means you can create documents which could be used at school, college or work in Word. It is almost identical to Word and you will find it easy enough to switch to. It can be downloaded from the web and is often given away on magazine cover discs.Hope this helps.

Answer 3

OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) is the generally accepted best alternative. It doesn't have an equivalent to Outlook, though. If you want an offline email program (instead of handling it all online, like, say, Yahoo!) then go for Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org) (and its addon, named "Lightning", if you need calendaring functions)

Note that OpenOffice, because it is such a complex and powerful piece of software, is a VERY long download. Especially if you're on a dialup connection, you may want to consider buying the (inexpensive) CD ($14 US) from, say, Amazon. After twice trying to download on my puny dialup line, I gave up and bought the CD.

OpenOffice is surprisingly easy to use!

Answer 4

Well you can try to get a copied CD of Office from somewhere, as long as you get the license key too...

or ditto: Open Office or Star Office

or Tesco have brought out their own budget office package which probably does everthing - in fact it's a revamped/rebranded version of a previously existing package which I can't remember the name of now. See http://www.tescosoftware.com/

Answer 5

Yes there is. It's called Openoffice and you can get it for free by download. You can also get one called Star Office which costs a little I believe.

Download location@ http://www.openoffice.org/

Answer 6

You can us OpenOffice for your needs. it is free and should be mroe than enough, not to mention that it opens Microsoft Files as well.

Answer 7

or you can download Microsoft Office illegally off a torrent, im sure they're out there

Answer 8

Openoffice from http://www.openoffice.org/

Answer 9

Right here.... http://download.openoffice.org/ fully compatible with ms office and you can't beat the price.

Answer 10

you can buy office 2007 from pc world for 79.99, it is a student version.........alternitively u can download it from a torrent site!

Answer 11

http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/MSoffice/ theres a lot of free one on here