Free Office alternative? Sweet!
Etan Horowitz writes for the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. His column for Saturday, July 7 listed three free alternatives to Microsoft Office.
“OpenOffice.org is downloadable software that is nearly identical to Office. The programs have catchy names “Writer” for word processing, “Calc” for spreadsheets, and “Impress” for presentations. If everyone had to create PowerPoint-like presentations using a program called “Impress,” I think we’d all be better off. I was able to do virtually everything I could do in Office, such as create pivot tables from spreadsheets and add animations to slides. If you want free software that operates the most like Microsoft Office, this is it.”
Mr. Horowitz is absolutely correct in his assessment, in our humble opinion. OpenOffice.org is the ticket, and it can be downloaded for free by clicking this button:
Be sure to see our post on Configuring the OpenOffice.org suite for use in a Microsoft Office world for instructions on how to easily set OpenOffice.org up to save files in the default Microsoft formats. This will make it much easier to exchange files with Microsoft Office users.