Microsoft to Sweeten Office 365 Deals We have been using Microsoft Office 365 Personal Edition for several years now. We pay $69.99 a year for a continuously updated MS Office Suite which included Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher (PC only) and Access (PC only). We like it because it’s fairly inexpensive – especially at $6.99 / month… Read More »
Microsoft to Stop Distributing Free Office Viewers for Excel, PowerPoint and Word Ever since we can remember, Microsoft has offered free viewers for its MS Office files created by Excel, PowerPoint and MS Word. Users who didn’t have MS Office could use these free viewers to open Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents by downloading free viewers from Microsoft.… Read More »
A Free Portable Office Suite One of the most often asked questions is “What free office suite to you recommend?”. Well, there are a lot of good ones, OpenOffice comes to mind. But today, we’re featuring Libre Office Portable. LibreOffice Portable is a full-featured, free office suite which can create and open almost any Microsoft Office file. And because… Read More »
There is nothing so wonderful as finding a wonderful software program that has a free version that does what it says it does. And there is nothing nicer than to have one of our readers (Thank you, Pam!) send us a wonderful suggestion to feature a wonderful freeware program. I’m in a wonderful mood. Can you tell? It’s… Read More »
While Microsoft does offer free “viewers” for most documents created with Microsoft Office, but it’s not very convenient to have to download a separate viewer for each type of Office document. And Microsoft Office is expensive. All of the programs below can open most Office documents, and most can save files in Office formats. Here in one list… Read More »