steveindenmark
Legendary Member
I have just bought a laptop with Windows 10. I rarely use it for letters but would like the option, just in case. Is there a totally free app that I could use for this purpose?
Windows 10 - Free office suite
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Drago
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OpenOffice is widely used and free, is quite decent. AbiWord is good as well.
vickster
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Open source?
https://www.libreoffice.org/
https://www.libreoffice.org/
Salar
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OpenOffice by Apache for me too. Used it professionally for years. I have the full Office suite, just find OpenOffice nice and easy to use.
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Another OpenOffice recommendation from me. Used it for close to 15 years without a problem.
numbnuts
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OpenOffice user too
figbat
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The online versions of the MS Office apps are free to use aren't they?
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steveindenmark
Legendary Member
Thanks guys. OpenOffice it is.
byegad
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I've been using Open Office for years. It opens word doc's seamlessly.
ColinJ
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I reckon that 99% of all word processor users only use 1% of the features, so why not just use the simplest possible free software available? I had Open Office installed on one machine and it seemed fine, but I didn't really need it so it never got used.
(I don't even bother with a 'proper' word processor. On the rare occasions that I write a letter/document these days I just use Wordpad!)
(I don't even bother with a 'proper' word processor. On the rare occasions that I write a letter/document these days I just use Wordpad!)
MontyVeda
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The only downside of Open Office is the lack of a decent grammar checker... but the MS grammar checker is far too picky and pedantic and annoys the feck out of me. 
The main reason I use Open Office is because its document recovery just works. I set it to autosave every three minutes and in the event of a power cut, i'll not lose more than a couple of minutes of work. MS Office also has an autosave and recovery feature, but it's let me down every sodding time I've needed it
The main reason I use Open Office is because its document recovery just works. I set it to autosave every three minutes and in the event of a power cut, i'll not lose more than a couple of minutes of work. MS Office also has an autosave and recovery feature, but it's let me down every sodding time I've needed it
DCBassman
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And LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice anyhow. Go with the one that's up and running.
