So after not having MS Office installed on my new rig because I thought I already had it...... :booboo:
Turns out the product code that I got with Mrs DD's laptop was a one time deal which I didn't notice until I went to install it back in December.
So being a bit short of €139 to purchase the office suite I was left wondering what to do as I didn't really want to do anything illegal like trying to obtain a dodgy copy.
Step forward Kingsoft: http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-freeware.html (http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-freeware.html)
Free office software that may not be quite up to MS standards but importantly is compatible with MS documents so I can now open all my old word docs again, :sign-rockon:
This will do for now until I can afford to make a purchase of MS Office suite, of course if it turns out to be any good I may save myself the €139 after all :thumbsup:
There is also Open Office which will do the same job for free.
https://www.openoffice.org/download/ (https://www.openoffice.org/download/)
I looked at open office Data, they didn't seem to have a version for windows 7 or 8 that I could locate, in fact the Wiki entry suggests that Open Office is now defunct????
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org)
I suspect I missed something there
I think Freddy uses open office in win 7 and I have used it in the past too.
That Kingsoft one looks worth a shot to me though, it's a smaller install than open office which was a little on the bloated side the last time I tried it.
Yes I use Open Office, have done for years. As far as I know they are still developing it, their blog seems to imply so, I don't know what that wiki page is on about, it's still a goer. And yep works fine on Windows 7...
https://www.openoffice.org/download/ (https://www.openoffice.org/download/)
It seems OK to me, I have writer, spread sheets and presentation. SO far I've only used writer which seems simple enough so I'm happy with it for now.
I also use Open Office on my Win7 rig, and on my Win8 VM. Does the job nicely. Uncle Bill is rich enough, I think. :P
I use open office as well, on windows 8. great software highly recommended
note: I can't say anything about Kingsoft, Sorry I never tried it.
Seems OK so far for a freebie :thumbsup:
cool, thanks for the review I'll have to keep that in mind.
Glad to hear it is working out for ya as well :D