Just got new laptop and previously wife's work IT folks loaded MS Office to our home computer. They can't do that this time (new owners) and so I am looking for suggestions on alternative to paying full boat for MS Office. We have files for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Publisher. What do you suggest for alternative.Thanks in advance,

Apache OpenOffice is the only one I know of. I used it for a while but reverted back to MS Office.

Guesa you did not do a web search. This turned up three different places with a 10 second searchWhile Microsoft Office dominates the productivity app sector there are many flexible alternatives. In this guide, you'll learn more about some of them.Many free and open source suites such as LibreOffice support the Open Document Format, which is used by the UK government. Open standards are useful as when developers discontinue software, users may not be able to access documents stored in a proprietary format. This has happened in the past to former users of Microsoft Works.If you manage an organisation, you may be unable to pay for MS Office software licenses for every machine. For this reason all the products discussed here are available free of charge, or offer a free tier such as WPS Office.Some of the tools in this guide also incorporate useful features not found in Microsoft Office, like converting PDFs to DOC format. All of the suites listed below can both open and save Microsoft Office documents such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX.We've also highlighted the best free word processor of 2018

I've been using Apache Open Office for years.

Open Office is a good alternative, but there are others if you're willing to work online, you can use the free online version of Word, Excel, Powerpoint. See Onedrive.com. You do need a Microsoft free account.Or, you can also use Google's free online apps, Docs, Sheets, Slides. They can be used offline as well. See Drive.com.

Microsoft Office 365 is $9.00 per month and includes up to five installations as well as web based versions of the software that can be used from any browser. This includes One Drive storage as well.

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Dec 30, 2018
I've also used LibreOffice in the past. Also agree that if you are using Office 2016/2019 or Office 365 at work and have an enterprise license, you may want to check availability of personal use copies? My organization does, it allows us up to 5 personal copies of Office 2019 free of charge. Just a matter of signing in to Office.com, and downloading the full version installer.
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Dec 30, 2018
We have Libre Office here at home, and I always choose Google products instead. They are just easier to use, and will mostly work with each other. If you are a spreadsheet guru, Google Sheets won't translate everything, so that can be an issue, I am sure Word and Docs have the same issues, I don't care for word processor programs, so I try to limit my use of them. ;)

Regarding Google "spying" on what I do, well, the stuff is mostly free to use, and if that means I get ads targeted at my interests, whats the harm?
I would rather get kayak related ads than Preparation H (or other generic uninteresting) ads! YMMV.

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