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Free Office Software
Word, PowerPoint, Excel & others
The open source movement means there's more top quality, legit free software than ever floating around the web to kit out your computer with.
We explain how to get Microsoft Office free if you're eligible, and – for those who aren't – have cherry-picked some of the best free alternatives, along with plenty of other software for PCs and Macs (and a few for Linux). To make sure your computer's well protected online, see our Free Antivirus Software guide.
Always check any software you put on your computer's suitable and compatible with your existing set-up. No liability can be accepted for any problems caused from acting upon the info given.
How can it be free?
Free software falls into two categories: promotional freebies, usually hoped to serve form of commercial again, and software developed to help people fight back against big software providers.
The latter has grown hugely as more people have embraced open source projects, where the building blocks – big chunks of code – are free for everybody to adapt and improve.
Click the categories below to read more about the types of free software available.
Free Microsoft Office for students and teachers
If you're a student or working in education and have an academic email address that can receive external email, you may be able to get a couple of decent freebies from Microsoft.
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Free Microsoft Office alternatives
For those who aren't able to get Microsoft's Office suite for free, the package is a costly proposition with the single-user subscription costing £59.99/year (or £48ish on Amazon* at the time of writing).
Yet you can furnish your machine with equivalents to most of its applications for nothing, thanks to open source alternatives...
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Free Office Software: Word, PowerPoint, Excel & others - MSE
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