Microsoft Office Alternatives

Almost everyone does two things with Microsoft Office: complain about it and use it. You, your friends, and basically everyone you know is using it but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the suite you should be using. The way Office works, and the high price tag that Microsoft charges for, may not really suit your needs or your budget. Office outclasses all its rivals in overall power, but the challengers do some things better. Once you know what those things are and you may decide it’s time to switch.

For example, if your work involves multichapter documents that require fine-tuned page layout, Microsoft Word isn’t necessarily the best choice. If you want to combine graphic images and tabular data in an eye-catching layout, Microsoft Excel isn’t the spreadsheet you’d prefer. And for accessing your documents from any computer with a Web browser, you may want to choose an online application instead of a traditional desktop suite like Office. All the online services can import Office-compatible documents created on the desktop, letting you edit from any Internet-connected computer—although some applications deleted features and formatting when I exported files to the format of my desktop application.

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