For a limited time, you can grab Belight Backup Pro (Mac) for free. What's your pleasure? LibreOffice? Old-standby OpenOffice? Something else entirely? Tell me (and everyone else) what tools you use to handle your everyday office-y tasks.īonus deal: Calling all Mac users! If you're getting ready to make the move to El Capitan, you'll no doubt want to make a full backup first. If you don't need the higher-end feature packed into Word, Excel and PowerPoint (and I suspect most users don't), you might be surprised by how much you can accomplish with free Office Online.

Which brings us to Microsoft Office Online, a surprisingly decent set of tools that more or less rival what Google has to offer - but with a much prettier UI. I consider myself a creative guy, and when I'm creating stuff, I prefer a pretty interface. (If there's a way to sort your documents by file type, I haven't found it.) And like most of Google's Web-based apps, it's just ugly.

What about Google Docs? It's effective enough for basic document work, but file management is kind of a pain - especially if you use Google Drive as your portal. That's the version I used for a long while and really liked.) (My advice: click the Download button next to Office Suite Free 2013. Huh? A little Googling reveals that Kingsoft proper still offers the Windows version, but good luck figuring out the different names and options. If you head to WPS.com, you find only Android, iOS and Linux versions of the suite. One of my longtime favorites, WPS Office (formerly Kingsoft Office), has become something of a mess. My question for you, fellow cheeps: What's your solution? My guess is you're not paying for Office either (unless you're getting it cheap or free as a student or from your company), but you still need word processing, spreadsheets and/or presentations. (Excuse my mockery, but this is such a paltry value-add, one few people ever use, yet Microsoft wants you to think it's all that and a bag of chips.) Microsoft's free online version of Word is not too shabby.īut for years many of us have been spoiled by Google Docs, OpenOffice and other free alternatives, to the point where it just seems ludicrous to pay for Microsoft's suite - even with its 1 terabyte of OneDrive cloud storage and (snicker) 60 minutes of monthly Skype time.

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