Free Office for Windows [analogs of MS Office]: working with text, tables, presentations is available for free!

Good day!

Today, without office programs and not there, and not here. It's simply impossible to even write a structured text (statement, report, note, etc.) without an editor ...! 😉

And in this regard, for working with the test and tables, MS Office has already become a classic application (Word and Excel). But fly in the ointment is that these applications are paid, and they are not even sickly (especially for regions where half of the salary can be paid for an office suite).

By the way, I noticed that not everyone knows that the same Word and Excel have good free counterparts (moreover, the interface and basic functions are almost identical). I think that for many who are not professionally involved in working with documentation, these analogs will be more than enough !?

Now on the topic ...

Office suites [the best of the free]

Openoffice

Website: //www.openoffice.org/

Platforms: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS

An excellent free office suite that runs on the most popular platforms (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.). I note right away that the vast majority of documents that you created in Word or Excel (and in Power Point), OpenOffice will be able to open and edit.

The only point: when working with large documents, the text formatting may "move out" a little.

The screenshot below shows the window when you first run the package. Agree, everything is pretty familiar and convenient, as if the usual MS Office ...

Open Office - first launch of the package

As for the functionality: it has almost all the same features as in MS Office. For example, the screenshot below shows an editor (alternative to Word) - pay attention to the taskbar: dozens of various possibilities (creating footnotes, links, editing text, inserting tables, pictures, fonts, etc.).

An editor in Open Office is almost like Word | Clickable

Overall, this office suite is one of the best alternatives to the classic MS Office.

Package contents:

Writer - a classic text editor (similar to MS Word);
Calc - an analogue of Excel (and by the way, quite good! Most formulas work as expected);
Impress - application for creating presentations;
Draw - a graphics editor (for those who are going to draw something, work with graphics);
Base - an analogue of MS Access (DBMS, databases);
Math is an application for working with mathematical formulas.

LibreOffice

Website: //ru.libreoffice.org/

Platforms: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X

This office suite is very similar to the previous one (although not surprising, because in 2011, due to disagreement with Oracle's policy, LibreOffice branched off from the Open Office project).

In his arsenal there are the same components: Writer (text document), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentation), Draw (drawing), Base (database), Math (formula).

The screenshot below shows the main window of the LibreOffice package.

LibreOffice - main window

As for the functionality: here, too, everything is at its best (see the toolbar: everything you need is there). Note that you can open and work with old documents created in Word / Excel in LibreOffice (i.e. compatibility is present!).

LibreOffice Text Editor

The package supports Russian language, works in Windows 7, 8, 10 (32/64 bits). In general, another good alternative to MS Office ...

ONLYOFFICE [online]

Website: //www.onlyoffice.com/ru/

Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

Cloud editors (which do not need to be installed on the system) are gaining popularity now. And they have one very significant advantage in this regard: you can work with a document from any device that has access to the Internet.

In addition, you can work with a document together, three, etc. This saves a lot of time and money!

Editing a document in ONLYOFFICE

ONLYOFFICE package includes the following components:

text editor (capable of working with formats: .doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt. That is, as you might have noticed, Word formats are supported);
table editor (works with formats: xls, .xlsx, .csv, .ods. Excel formats are supported);
presentation editor (works with formats: .ppt, .pptx, .odp).

In general, in the free version of the ONLYOFFICE office suite, of course, there are no math editors. formulas (as in the previous ones), but in general, there is everything you need for your daily work. I think many will be satisfied with this?

Kingsoft Office Suite Free

Official site: //www.kingsoftstore.com/

You can also download from Softonic

Platforms: Windows, Android, iOS and Linux

Note: download the "Multilanguage" package, in it you can select the Russian language during installation.

Simple, concise, small office suite. Suitable for those who are not looking for a "monster" for creating and editing office documents.

The arsenal has everything you need: a text editor, an editor for tables and presentations.

Writer - text editor in Kingsoft Office Suite / Clickable

Features:

support for documents created in Word;
online synchronization with versions for Android, iOS and Linux;
there is a special. modes for eye protection (for example, for working in the dark);
there is no support for macros in the free version;
there are no tools for working with formulas, databases, pictures.

FreeOffice

Website: //www.freeoffice.com/ru/

Platforms: Windows, Linux, Android

Note: The package is free for home and non-commercial use.

This office suite contains a text editor (TextMaker), spreadsheet applications (PlanMaker), and presentations (Presentations). According to the developers, they managed to achieve 100% compatibility with counterparts from Microsoft Office.

Moreover, the speech concerns not only the visual design (see the screen below, there are 2 styles in the program: ribbons and classics) and functions, but also the ability to freely edit documents created in MS Office.

TextMaker (included with FreeOffice) | Clickable

I will add that after working with documents in FreeOffice, you can save them in MS Office formats (note: many other analogs simply have "half" compatibility: you can open a document created in MS Office, but you can no longer save it to it ).

Uncompromising compatibility

Features:

full compatibility with documents created in MS Office (even more - you can save in the same formats so that other users can open these documents in their MS Word ...);
optimization of applications for touch screens (icons become larger, it becomes easier to work with editors);
full support for the Russian language;
several design options;
it is proposed to install FlexiPDF Basic for the office kit (this is a free PDF editor, a very useful thing, by the way).

Windows Office

Site: //windowsoffice.ru/

Platforms: Windows

Free Office for Windows, including Word and Excel counterparts. It is distinguished primarily by its simplicity and low weight (less than 50 MB!). Ideal for those who need a simple text and spreadsheet editor without any complicated bells and whistles.

Note that this package is very modest in terms of system requirements, and therefore works even on relatively weak machines (without hangs).

Windows Office - main window / Clickable

Windows Office supports and opens all known document formats (txt, doc, html, etc.). The package is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 10 (32/64 bits).

Google, Yandex documents [online]

Google site: //www.google.com/intl/ru_ru/docs/about/

Yandex website: //disk.yandex.ru/client/disk

Very convenient online editors for working with text, tables, presentations. If you have a stable and fast internet, then it is quite possible to use it.

I personally cannot give preference to any particular service 😉 (they are identical in terms of capabilities).

I would only note that you need to be more careful with documents in online editors that contain confidential information (otherwise, recently the news reports that many user documents were available in search results).