Due to some reasons, you don’t want to spend your bucks in
purchasing a license for quality software product, hence you’ll try out its free
alternatives .There may be many reasons for choosing the free alternatives …and
the obvious reason probably would be the price. If you can’t afford to pay |
don’t want to pay a penny for using a software product then there are many free
software’s(for you to try and use) that give you the same performance and productivity as the paid one’s
.(We believe in sharing the best stuff with you , hence we will keep updating
our blog with the best free software alternative’s for a particular software). Today
, we will share with you the best alternatives for one of the most popular software
product called as Microsoft Office (A suite of many useful tools like Excel ,PowerPoint
,Word…etc). Everyone using a computer(running a windows operating system) knows what Microsoft office is... hence, I won’t
write any description for it and will directly list down its free alternatives
.So here’s the list of best Alternatives of Microsoft Office .(I've personally
tried out these application’s ..They work as well as Microsoft Office):-
Google Docs: - This is the best online alternative to
Microsoft Office. Anyone having a Google account is allowed to use all the
tools falling under Google docs .These tools allow you to create ,view and edit
Spreadsheets ,Word like documents, presentations…etc and store them on Google’s
cloud platform Google Drive. You can apply formatting and formulas to
spreadsheets created from Google Spreadsheet and save it in any popular format
like csv ,xls…etc to your hard drive or
in the cloud storage .Google Presentations allow you to create and edit
presentations (as in Microsoft PowerPoint) and save it in pptx or a pdf format to
your hardware or on the Google’s cloud storage .One important feature of Google
Docs is that it is integrated with all major Google Tools…Now how cool is tha?.You’ll
need a working internet connection, a web browser and a Google account to use
this Google Service.
Open Office:-This is probably the best offline desktop based
software alternative to Microsoft office .When you’ll use this software you won’t
be able to distinguish it from Microsoft office. This package consists of
different tools (calc, draw, math, writer ,impress…etc) for creating, viewing and
editing presentations, documents, spreadsheets, diagrams. Almost all Linux
Operating System have OpenOffice.org office suite installed. So you can imagine
its popularity in the Linux community .And you make it even more popular by
trying it on windows platform .Try it out this software won’t disappoint you.
LibreOffice:- Gaining popularity day by day , This is yet
another top offline Desktop based software alternative of Microsoft office. The
Latest stable version released is LibreOffice 4 that has been updated with
several new changes including its ability to integrate with online document
storage Systems and Content Management Systems …interesting ,isn’t it?.This
software has all the necessary elements that an office suite should have and
hence it has made it to our list of best alternatives of Microsoft Office.
Zoho Docs:- A popular Online Document Management utility
that has 1 free plan and 2 paid plans . The free plan allows you to sign up
with Zoho docs and use tools for creating, viewing presentations, spreadsheets
and documents at no costs. Due to its ease of use and Powerful user interfaces
, Zoho docs has made it into our list of top alternatives of Microsoft office.
Note:- You should check out all the features of the above listed
tools from the developers website .
So, these were the 4 best desktop and internet based applications
(office suite) that are as good as Microsoft Office and are available free of cost.
If you know some other office suite which has the capability and features that
match the above listed tools (including Microsoft Office), then please share it
with us as a comment .I hope you found this post useful and by this time you
would be keen to try out these tools .So what are you waiting for?
