

There are many other alternatives, but these are some of the best. If somethings goes wrong during the installation, such as the Office setup hangs, download is slow, you can’t start Office apps in Windows 8 or Windows RT, or you have questions activating Office 2013, you can try this Microsoft support page. Unlike Microsoft’s Office web apps, you can even access Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides offline in Google Chrome. Go to Office Setup, enter the 25 character product key and download the setup files. It stores your files in Google Drive, Google’s online file storage service. Google Docs is a capable collection of web-based office software.Windows PC users can access a web-based version of iWork through the iCloud website, too. This is Apple’s competitor to Microsoft Office, and it used to be paid software before Apple made it free. Apple iWork is a free collection of office applications for Mac, iPhone, and iPad users.You can even make LibreOffice look like Microsoft Office.

While OpenOffice is still around, LibreOffice has more developers and is now the more popular project. It’s similar to the desktop versions of Microsoft Office, and it can even work with and create Office documents in common file types like DOCX documents, XLSX spreadsheets, and PPTX presentations.

