{"id":3709,"date":"2009-04-10T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2009-04-10T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:03:13","slug":"microsoft-office-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/microsoft-office-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a new laptop with No Pre-Installed Microsoft Office and you want to access some of the Office related file? You dont need to worry because you always have a list of optional tools which can be a very good replacement for those Microsoft Office aplications which may be completely free or may be offered at a very nominal fees.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Google Docs Microsoft Office Alternative\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/Images\/G\/Google-Docs.png?resize=140%2C132\" alt=\"Google Docs Microsoft Office Alternative\" width=\"140\" height=\"132\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Google Docs :<\/strong> We don&#8217;t need to tell people more about this , because everyone just loves Google and all their web services which are very much essential atleast for the webmasters. The Google Docs is one of these services which offers you with Spreadsheet Presentation, Form Applications and Word Processor. You can create online Word Documents upto a maximum of 500kb in size along with 2Mb per embedded image within the doc files and along with this you can share these document files with your friends or clients who can either have complete or just reading access.The Spreadsheet&#8217;s can have upto 100 sheets, 2,00,000 cells and 256 columns. Google has also linked this up with Google gears which means that you can have a copy of all your Google Docs based stuff on your local computer and get access to it even if there is no internet connection and you can update all the changes made to your document files once you are connected back to the internet. I have been using these services from over a year and once you get addicted to this iam sure you wont need access to the Microsoft Office Applications.<\/li>\n<li><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Corel Word Perfect Microsoft Office Alternative\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/Images\/C\/Corel-Word-Perfect.png?resize=125%2C166\" alt=\"Corel Word Perfect Microsoft Office Alternative\" width=\"125\" height=\"166\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Corel WordPerfect Office :<\/strong> Corel WordPerfect Office is another application which may not be that famous when compared to the Google Docs Applications but is a product from Corel which can help you create documents, spreadsheets &amp; presentations along with email management, PDF reading and many other features which Microsoft Office would offer you normally. The Application supports you with multiple file formats ranging from MS Office 2007 to Open Document Format[ODF].You get a range of tools in this application which can be used to create reports, newsletters, invoices, receipts and many other tools along with a inbuilt dictionary from Oxford with 175 digital photos, 8000 clipart images and lot more.<\/li>\n<li><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Zoho Work Online Microsoft Office Alternative\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/Images\/Z\/Zoho-Work-Online.png?resize=141%2C80\" alt=\"Zoho Work Online Microsoft Office Alternative\" width=\"141\" height=\"80\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Zoho Office :<\/strong> Another Microsoft Office &amp; Google Docs Rival which is a Online Suite packed with tonnes of features which can help you in building word files, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, wiki&#8217;s &amp; lot more. Supported file formats by Zoho Work Online are icrosoft Word (DOC), Office Open XML (DOCX), OpenDocument text (ODT), OpenOffice text (SXW), HTML, RTF, JPG, GIF &amp; PNG files. It works on a similar technology like Google Gears where the user can even edit the files when he is Offline and the changes are synchronised when he is connected back online. You can even add Footnotes or EndNotes to the files you have created.<\/li>\n<li><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Open Office Microsoft Alternative\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/Images\/O\/Open-Office.png?resize=140%2C98\" alt=\"Open Office Microsoft Alternative\" width=\"140\" height=\"98\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Open Office :<\/strong> This Microsoft Office Competitor is a open-source aplication suite as the name suggests, supporting over 80 languages and the word processor which comes in this suite is named as &#8216;writer&#8217; which has a lot of inbuilt features like AutoComplete, AutoFormat, Styles, Text Frames, Setting up Table of Contents, Referancing, Illustrations &amp; Tables. Do check out the website OpenOffice.org for more information on this Online tool.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jarte :<\/strong> A advanced version of Wordpad which comes preinstalled in your windows based operating system offers you with a light weight version of MS Office with the ability to add pictures and sound to your word documents, and the most important advantage of using Jarte is that its totally free and you get multiple features like tabbed document access, spell checker, page breaks, print previewing, visual header and footer designer, clip history, a reference bar, multilevel undo and redo functionality, and single-click bookmarking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a new laptop with No Pre-Installed Microsoft Office and you want to access some of the Office related file? 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