This list is by no means meant to be a list of every single free office suite on the Web. But it’s a list of office suites we have tried. If you have a suggestion for a free office suite – either downloadable or “in the cloud”, offer it up in the comments section. We’d appreciate it and others would too.<\/p>\n
Open Office<\/a> IBM Lotus Symphony<\/a> Online (in the cloud) office \t\tsuites<\/strong><\/p>\n Google Docs<\/a><\/strong> Zoho<\/a><\/strong> ThinkFree<\/a><\/strong> There you go. You got five for \t\tthe price of one today – five free office applications you can use instead \t\tof making Microsoft richer. We hope you enjoyed today’s departure from the \t\tnormal “Freeware pick of the week” format!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This list is by no means meant to be a list of every single free office suite on the Web. But it’s a list of office suites we have tried. If you have a suggestion for a free office suite – either downloadable or “in the cloud”, offer it up in the comments section. We’d appreciate it and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The most often recommended alternative to MS Office by you – our readers. \t\tWe’ve tried it and think it’s a great replacement for MS Office. It can \t\tread and create almost any Office document format and you can’t beat the \t\tprice. If you’re looking for Office compatibility and a really all-around \t\tgood replacement for MS Office you can’t beat Open Office. \t\tGet more information about Open Office – \t\tand\/or download it here<\/u><\/a>. Dialup users? It’s a 148 MB download. Keep \t\tthat in mind.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Not much MS Office compatibility here – except with MS Word. It contains \t\tall of the programs you’d get with MS Word but many are in proprietary formats \t\twhich only those using Lotus will be able to read. Not a good choice unless \t\tyou don’t care who can read your files. It’s a great office suite but if \t\tyour files aren’t readable (except MS Word Doc format) by MS Office users \t\tthen it’s not a real alternative to MS Office. We’re listing it here becuase \t\tit is free and it is an office suite. It is also a download over 200 MB. \t\tDialup users please note that. If you’re interested in learning more about \t\t Lotus Symphony (Free) visit this page<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nComplete MS Office compatibility – and lots of space to store your \t\tfiles. Reads all the standard MS Office formats and creates them too. Google \t\tDocs has become the most popular of all online office suites – well it’s \t\tby Google for one thing – and its compatibility with MS Office doesn’t hurt. \t\tYou can upload and download the documents you create or have created to \t\tand from your desktop computer. Want to learn more about Google Docs? Visit \t\tthis page. If you have a Gmail account you can login with your Gmail login \t\tinfo.<\/p>\n
\nZoho is another online office productivity suite. It features MS Office-compatible \t\tword processor, spreadsheet and presentation apps. Zoho also includes online \t\tproject management, web conferencing, online database with reports, online \t\tplanner, group chat, wiki, and more. Requires registration and a decent \t\tinternet connection (read “broadband”). If Zoho sounds interesting to you, \t\tyou can learn more about it here<\/u><\/a>. You \t\tcan sign-in with your Yahoo or Google information, but we don’t advise you \t\tto do that. Zoho probably has the nicest online word processor we’ve ever \t\tseen.<\/p>\n
\nThinkFree is a unique online office suite that is free – you can also buy \t\tit for your computer. If you could only buy it wouldn’t be listed under \t\tour freeware picks section, but since you can use all its applications online \t\tfor free – it is. Features include all the standard office apps plus compatibility \t\twith MS Office apps. You can use ThinkFree in one other way. If you don’t \t\thave MS Office installed, you can open any kind of Office doc using ThinkFree \t\twithout signing up for an account. Another pretty nifty online office suite \t\tyou can use free. \t\tTo learn \t\tmore about ThinkFree visit their web site<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n