Hey guys
Whats the best free word processor that works on Windows? I'm using Open Office, but the documents look kinda... ugly? I dunno I just dont like it in general. What do you guys recommend?
1. get microsoft office off pirate bay or something (remember kids piracy is bad but when a company is giving away all your personal information they kinda owe you one)
2. i used to have a relay good one called koala speak or something weird like that that was good
3. if you are still in school or work for a large business be nice to the ict tecs and ask them to install Microsoft office for you just say you need it for school work or something
hope i helped
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LibreOffice is free and seems to be popular.
If you happen to be in school, quite a few of them have agreements with Microsoft so students of those schools can get Office for cheap or free.
Yes, my college has a deal with Microsoft. I could get copies of Windows 7 and 8. As well as Office 2013 and 2010 and pretty much any other piece of software from Microsoft I wanted. even like Windows Server and the like all for free.
LibreOffice is also excellent if you want something free but I still think MS Office is prob the best package.
I use OpenOffice/LibreOffice and it works pretty well
My university in South Africa offers Windows for free ( Actually for around 1$), but not Office, and I would rather not pirate. LibreOffice is cool, but my brother doesn't seem to like it :/ and it messes up formatting sometimes.
I would recommend Office Online. It's Microsoft's entirely free version Office, as web apps. They are less functional than the full-fledged Office suite, obviously, but they are far better than Google Docs.
It requires a Microsoft Account (which you already have if you've signed up for any Microsoft service ever) and is integrated with OneDrive, but you can export documents to your local PC as .pdf or .docx then delete them from OneDrive if you don't want them in the cloud.
The other positive is that since it's Office, you retain compatibility and formatting when opening in full Office applications.
I vow for Google Docs and LibreOffice
I like LibreOffice, not all the functionality but a fairly large chunk of it. Enough for the UK Government to want to make the switch of Open Document Format. MS office can open ODF and all other Open Format files like their presentation but there are usually compatibility issues. And LibreOffice and open Docx so you are pretty set from a compatibility standpoint.
It is not a replacement if you want full professional functionality but if you are a college student it is perfect.
OpenOffice.org
Pretty much gives the whole functionality of Microsoft's suite for $0.
I use Apache OpenOffice, I'm really happy with it
http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
defiantly libre office spell check and i think now gramr check in english
in response to number one: hey, I payed this guy to clean my house and he stole my car! i'm going to let him clean my house for free and let him steal my other car fully aware he is going to do it.
Def google docs, open office, or online ms office
The only open source office that I have found that is fast, has everything I need (word processing/ spreadsheets/ power point) is Kingsoft Office
Don't use Office Online, you just give Microsoft (and other parties, like the NSA, FBI, etc) access to your data. If it's not on your computer, it's not yours, that's the kind of thinking that the US government uses to justify ignoring the privacy of users.
Use LibreOffice. It supports more formats than Office, it is faster, it is free-of-charge, and it's licensed under the GPL. It also has native support for the Open Document Format (for text files, for example, the extension is .odt), which is the standard format in the enterprise environment, while Office still has trouble with.
LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice when they got bought by Oracle in 2010, and most OpenOffice users switched to it. I recommend LibreOffice over OpenOffice.