It is open source so it is absolutely free to acquire and use. This is a project of The Document Foundation and has been around for a little while. If you are a fan of Open Source software then this is a familiar name. Overally this is my pick for most viable MS Office replacement for Windows and the closest you will get to a decent Office Suite for whichever flavor of Linux Operating System you fancy. Linux users also have a version of WPS in their community forum although that version doesn’t see as many updates as the Windows and mobile clients. WPS is free to download and install and also has an Android and iOS app. The ribbon up-top akin to the layout premiered in MS Office 2007 and carried over in subscequent iterations up until the much recent Office 2016. WPS is pretty similar to MS Office in appearance and MS Office users will feel right at home with the familiar interface. It comes with a Word Processor (Writer), a Spreadsheet manager (Spreadsheet) and Presentations which aims to replace PowerPoint. This is a free Microsoft Office replacement suite by Chinese company, Kingsoft.

Some of these are niche applications and so we will look at viable replacements to the 3 primary applications in the suite a Word Processor, a Spreadsheet manager and a PowerPoint replacement. The Microsoft Office Suite of apps include the likes of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Publisher and OneNote among many others.

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