Freeware alternatives to Microsoft Office

[avcaballero]

Hello, LibreOffice and OpenOffice are alreade probably known. They are basically the same. The first one is a fork of the second. The weight of both are over 140 Mb, specially LO is over 200 Mb.

Gnome project has its own office: gnumeric, abiword, inkscape, etc. All of them installables in Windows.

But there're also another rather good free alternatives that no much people knows:
Kingsoft Office. I'm watching it these days, and it looks rather good. Its apparience is very similar to Microsoft Office. The spreedsheets supports 16.384 columns. Not bad. The installer is just about 60 Mb. It has word, excel and Powerpoint software alike.

And even other FreeOffice from SoftMaker, a German firm. It has basic support to 3D drawing if i don't remember wrong.

Regards

[Gunther]

Hi Alfonso,

good links, I think. The FreeOffice is a trial version with large functionality.

Gunther

[Vortex]

SoftMaker Free Office :

http://www.freeoffice.com/

[Gunther]

Erol,

I think that Alfonso's link works too. It points to the English site, while your link points to the German site. The company is based in Nürnberg (Bavaria).

Gunther

[avcaballero]

If I'm not wrong, they supply you the reg key for free to your email, i think so. I proved it some time ago.

[Gunther]

Alfonso,

If I'm not wrong, they supply you the reg key for free to your email, i think so. I proved it some time ago.

yes, that's the way to go. For more advanced features (special fonts etc.) one has to use the commercial version.

Gunther

[K_F]

I'm using KingSoft on my tablet.. It's pretty good, and coverts between a lot of documents.
What I am finding though is that the formats between MsWord and KingSoft.. goes for a slight wobbly.
This could just be my setup as I'm new to Kings.

  8)

[xanatose]

Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice are powerful for small documents.

But they slow to a crawl when dealing with sizable spreadsheets. Tried King Soft, not as many features, but can handle bigger spreadsheets.

BTW:
Did the name spreadsheet came from its main usage? Aka spreading ... 

[dedndave]

Lotus 1-2-3 and Symphony users used to cry for "more speed and memory!!!"   :lol:

(and TV's were actually a piece of furniture - some radios, too)