What's a good cheaper alternative to Mirco$osft Office suite?

[Quotealex]

I only basicaly need a spreadsheet à la Excell and a word processor similar to Words. Most important thing is that I'm able to use all my saved ".xls" and ".doc" files on it....

[Doctor Dre]

Corel Word perfect suite .

[candyflip]

I use and like Open Office. It's FREE.

http://wwwhahahahahahaoffice.org/

[bjjb]

Used to be one called star office that was pretty good and free. Not sure if its still around tho.

[fris]

why use something different ms office is the best.

[candyflip]

Originally posted by bjjb
Used to be one called star office that was pretty good and free. Not sure if its still around tho.

Star Office is just Sun Microsystems repackaged version of Open Office.

You can but Star Office for $80

http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/

[Doctor Dre]

Originally posted by fris
why use something different ms office is the best.

I like word perfect better then word

[DTK]

Originally posted by bjjb
Used to be one called star office that was pretty good and free. Not sure if its still around tho.

still is - http://www.staroffice.com/ it's still inexpensive, but not 100% free.

[Basic_man]

you can buy a wordperfect familly package....i think its like hum....89$

[candyflip]

Originally posted by candyflip
I use and like Open Office. It's FREE.

http://wwwhahahahahahaoffice.org/

openoffice dot org

[montel]

go for LOTUS SMART SUIT. but you want be able to use ur .xls and .doc. i m afraid.

[Libertine]

Open Office.

[A C]

Originally posted by punkworld
Open Office.

[EviLGuY]

Originally posted by candyflip
openoffice dot org

Yeah thats a pretty decent program.. and they are always improving it.

[warlock5]

I use openoffice. Easy to put on pcs without worry about licences. I'm not spending $1000+ just to put ms office on a couple of computers.

[2HousePlague]

Piracy of same.

j-

[European Lee]

Microsoft Office Suite Warez Version of course

Regards,

Lee

[extreme]

Originally posted by candyflip
openoffice dot org

[NoCarrier]

Notepad

But it's a pain in the ass having to create all the columns manually everytime..

[BossHawg]

This might be what you are looking for:

http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/

They have a free and paid version but the free one works just fine..