How To Get MS Office Like Software (OpenOffice) For Free?

There is no doubt about the usage of Microsoft Office Suite. Its a must have application but what if you do not want to shell out all that money? There are free open source options available which are equally effective if not better.

One such application is Oracle's Open source Office Suite called OpenOffice. Unlike MS Office OpenOffice is available for Windows as well as Linux (Except Linux Debian and Mac OS). So its kind of a step ahead.

How to get OpenOffice? Well it is easier than you can imagine. Just go to OpenOffice.org and download the application for your OS. Once you install just register your application it takes less than 30 seconds to do that and you are all set.


You will find mostly similar applications like MS Office, Excel, PowePoint and Access in Open office. It has its own file formats but also supports .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, pptx and many more. This way you can easily edit Word documents.

It takes just a little time may be half an hour or so to get a hang of things in OpenOffice but once you are used to all the tools then you are all set to use it. So Enjoy your new Office companion.