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I have a new Windows 11 laptop. There is a very limited version of Word already. I think you can't even save files with it.
I tried Word Online but it is very limited. Like you can only save files to OneDrive. Also Autosave is always on. Why would you want AutoSave on all the time? You can't turn it off, on Word Online.
It looks like the only way I have can a full Word is to pay $69.99 for it, or a slightly different price monthly. Would it just tweak something on my computer so I'd be using the existing Word app but with no limitations?
(You can get a month for free, also.)
Yes or Apache open office https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
No need for windows as its files will work with a windows and windows will work with Apache files. You can also get a spreadsheet an several other programs in the download,
Open Office is now defunct and hasn't been supported in 10 years, and the OP doesn't want to save his docs to the cloud, i.e. Microsoft Office or Google docs. I don't think there are any great solutions, particularly if you have a lot of existing documents and need a viable conversion.
I loaded LibreWriter and yes, it can save files as docx files.
I wonder why Apache doesn't do that.
Aren't there advantages of having an official MS Office app, even though it's not free?
Some possible reasons are: people have been trained on MS Office and they prefer to use exactly the same thing.
There may be security/malware concerns?
Are there many things you can do with MS Office which you can't with Apache or Libre?
I loaded LibreWriter and yes, it can save files as docx files.
LibreOffice is awesome. I have been using it at home for years even though I have pretty much all MS Office versions up to 2019.
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Aren't there advantages of having an official MS Office app, even though it's not free?
Unless you need Outlook and/or some sort of integration with another paid program, I can't think of a single thing a typical home user would be missing out.
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Some possible reasons are: people have been trained on MS Office and they prefer to use exactly the same thing.
The learning curve, imho, is not greater than the one that comes with newer versions of MS Office.
Even application icons are similar with same colors (Blue for Word/Write, Green for Excel/Calc, Red for Powerpoint/Impress, etc.)
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There may be security/malware concerns?
None to my best knowledge. MS Office and Windows are targeted because of Microsoft.
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Are there many things you can do with MS Office which you can't with Apache or Libre?
Again, for most home users, LibreOffice is way more versatile. LibreOffice can actually do mild editing on PDF files. It can open and convert MS Works and Word Perfect files. MS Office cannot even handle MS Works files without installing couple of add-ons first!
I use it very lightly so I can't guarantee or know if LibreOffice is lacking certain functions or features that some really heavy Word, Excel or PP users might want.
That said, I install LibreOffice on all the home user computers we do fresh installs that didn't specifically asked to have MS Office installed and we hardly ever get anyone come back asking to buy MS Office instead.
Some helpful tips for those switching from MS Office to LibreOffice:
From the Menu bar> Tools > Options > General (change all the highlighted "Document types" to what the screenshot shows as "Save as" so the new files will be saved with a more recognizable file extension.
This could be very helpful especially if you will be sharing the files with others or plan to open them with MS Office on some other computer.
Next tip involves expanding LibreOffice's functionality and features with the help of additional extensions!
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Open Office is now defunct and hasn't been supported in 10 years, and the OP doesn't want to save his docs to the cloud, i.e. Microsoft Office or Google docs. I don't think there are any great solutions, particularly if you have a lot of existing documents and need a viable conversion.
Open Office is still funct. Last update was 4.1.14, date April 2023.
Why would you want to update OpenOffice anyway??? Mine is a very old one, and it works just fine. I never update anything, ever. There's no need for it. If something works, it works. The last time I updated anything was on a Linux machine and it committed suicide during the Linux "update". That was over 10 years ago, still using my Win 7 laptop w/ never an update, everything works great.
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