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 Best Free Microsoft Office Alternative .(I’ve personally tried out these application’s ..They work as well as Microsoft Office):-
Best Free Microsoft Office Alternatives :-
Google Docs: - This is the Best Free Microsoft Office Alternative. 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 free Microsoft office Alternative .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 free 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 best free Microsoft office Alternatives.
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?
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