My MS Office alternative - Open Source

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We all know what MS Office is and of course, everyone knows you need to get the MS Office license to have it installed on your computer. I checked the price from this page and heck, I don't have that money to spend for this application that I will not use that much. So I searched the internet and looked for MS Office alternatives and found this article that lists down the best MS Office alternatives. I did not take my time to read it all but downloaded the number one on the list right away.

When I was in college, there was a computer café near my university that is using a free and open-source word application. They may be saving the money for more necessary things like paying their rent and electricity bill than to use it for MS Office. I think that was a Linux-based application and it worked almost close to the functionality of the MS Word. I just don't remember the name of that application. If you know it, please write it down in the comments section to share with everyone.

Good thing, I bought this Acer Aspire 5 laptop for only almost 28,000 PHP in a gadget store at Sta. Lucia Mall. I could tell this laptop is fast and running smooth since I am only using this for watching movies and writing blogs.

So I downloaded LibreOffice and used it right away just a few minutes ago prior to writing this blog haha! I used it to edit my online documents as I need to record the money I put into the stock market - I will discuss the Philippine stock market and tell my success from it soon when I have time. I just tried how the Word application works and find it user-friendly since you will see the functions of each tool when you point your cursor over the button. The only negative side I see so far is that it can only use the MS Word 2007 file format, but when I used it, it gave me an error that says it cannot save the file format I chose, so I need to use the default format which is ODF.

As per writing this blog, I searched more of what LibreOffice can do that can match the MS Office applications. I found that it has all these open source applications:

  • LibreOffice Calc - MS Excel
  • LibreOffice Impress - MS PowerPoint
  • LibreOffice Writer - MS Word
  • LibreOffice Base - MS Access
  • LibreOffice Draw - MS Paint
The LibreOffice Math is for solving mathematical equations I guess, which gives me a headache when I see those math symbols. What I notice is that It does not have a mail app like MS Outlook. However, you can download the Thunderbird mail application if you wanted to try another email app aside from outlook and Apple mail just to compare.

Well, at least I will have a tool where I can write my future blogs offline with the help of LibreOffice. If you are like me who is looking for something similar to MS Word and is free, you should try this LibreOffice now and see how it works just like the MS Office.

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