{"id":42261,"date":"2013-03-18T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=42261"},"modified":"2013-03-18T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:25:01","slug":"two-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/two-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Two free alternatives to Microsoft Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>by Fred Langa for Windows Secrets Newsletter<\/p>\n<h4>Two free alternatives to MS Office<\/h4>\n<p>As Microsoft\u2019s Office has grown in size and complexity, more than a few users have wondered whether there\u2019s a viable alternative \u2014 especially when it comes time to pay for an upgrade or new copy.<\/p>\n<p>There are very few alternatives. Two \u2014 Open Office and LibreOffice \u2014 provide the core functionality of classic versions of Microsoft Office and are completely free!<\/p>\n<p>Open Office and LibreOffice are nearly identical productivity suites that, unlike Office 2013, live and work entirely on your PC\u2019s hard drive \u2014 there\u2019s no prodding you toward cloud storage or app rental. Both suites use traditional toolbars (no Ribbon interface) and come with six business apps: word processor, spreadsheet, presentation creator, drawing\/desktop-publishing tool, database manager, and mathematics tool. Did I mention they\u2019re free?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office\u2019s long, long road to Version 2013<\/strong><br \/>\nTo understand the context for Microsoft Office alternatives, it helps to look at Office itself. The newly released Office 2013 \u2014 and Office 365, its by-subscription counterpart \u2014 is actually the 15th major iteration of Microsoft\u2019s flagship productivity suite. As you might imagine, the current version bears almost no resemblance to the original.<\/p>\n<p>That first Office version debuted in 1989 and included just three tools: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Over the next decade, Microsoft pumped out a new version of Office roughly every year\u2014 and each revision piled on new functions and features. Office was in nearly constant flux.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these new additions were keepers. For example, an email client and a database manager have remained part of every Office version (though not in every edition of every version) since they first appeared. But there were also misfires, some of them spectacular. Who remembers Vizact and the Microsoft Binder \u2014 or the hugely disliked and maligned Clippy, the animated paper-clip Office Assistant?<\/p>\n<p>In part, market trends \u2014 new technologies and new ways of working \u2014 drove the flood of good and bad Office features and functions. But the constant changes also made Office a cash cow, as the new features gave users a compelling reason to abandon their still-working older versions of the suite and buy the next new thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2003 \u2014 a watershed moment in Office\u2019s evolution<\/strong><br \/>\nOffice 2003 (the 12th major iteration) offered literally tens of thousands of functions across its core components. It had just about everything most users could possibly want in an office suite. Figure 1 shows Word\u2019s now-classic interface.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/W20130314-TS-Word03.jpg\" alt=\"W20130314-TS-Word03\" width=\"424\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/W20130314-TS-Word03.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/W20130314-TS-Word03-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure 1.<\/strong> Office 2003 (Word shown) became an instant classic \u2014 a complete suite whose familiar toolbar interface gave easy access to its many features.<br \/>\nOffice 2003\u2032s success was a boon for Microsoft \u2014 but also a problem. If the suite exceeded most users\u2019 expectations, how was Microsoft going to get them to buy the next version?<\/p>\n<p>Dropping support for older Office versions wasn\u2019t going to work; to its credit, Microsoft\u2019s official Support lifecycle (more info) is 10 years for most software versions.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing to pile on ever more features invoked the law of diminishing returns. Studies indicated that most users used only about 10 percent of Office 2003\u2032s features. Microsoft\u2019s own studies (MSDN blog) showed that just five functions \u2014 Paste, Save, Copy, Undo, and Bold \u2014 accounted for \u201caround 32 percent of the total command use in Word 2003.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Practically speaking, most users would never find (much less use) new features in the next Office version.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, it seems, was to give Office a new UI. Office 2007 introduced the \u201cOffice Fluent user interface\u201d (MS FAQ), aka the Ribbon. These tab-organized and changeable command sets \u2014 infamous to some \u2014 replaced the familiar toolbar (see Figure 2) of previous Office versions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/W20130314-TS-Word07.jpg\" alt=\"W20130314-TS-Word07\" width=\"424\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/W20130314-TS-Word07.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/W20130314-TS-Word07-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure 2.<\/strong> Word 2007&#8217;s new Ribbon toolbar with context-sensitive tabs<br \/>\nFully committing itself to the Ribbon UI, Microsoft enhanced it in Office 2010 and extended it to a few Windows 8 apps, such as File Explorer and Paint.<\/p>\n<p>The Ribbon wasn\u2019t the only change in Office, of course. Office 2013, for example, shifts the default file Save location from the user\u2019s hard drive to Microsoft\u2019s SkyDrive cloud-storage service. Office 2013 also introduces a yearly-subscription variant \u2014 Office 365. (Originally focused at small-business users, Office 365 is now heavily targeted at home-PC users.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/top-story\/two-free-full-blown-alternatives-to-ms-office\/?utm_source=PCPitstop&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt appears with permission from Windows Secrets Newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/office_alt.jpg\" alt=\"office_alt\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/office_alt.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/office_alt-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are very few alternatives to Microsoft Office. Two \u2014 Open Office and LibreOffice \u2014 provide the core functionality of classic versions of Microsoft Office and are completely free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[569],"class_list":["post-42261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-secrets","tag-microsoft-office"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two free alternatives to Microsoft Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are very few alternatives to Microsoft Office. 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