A free, easy alternative to Office
Hoping to get some work done on a recent train trip to New York, I kicked back, opened my laptop, and clicked on Microsoft Excel. Up popped a prompt asking for the original program disk. Same thing with Word and PowerPoint. Nothing would run.Who the heck travels with their original program disks? I was dead in the water, left with nothing to do but play solitaire.
That evening, I went online from my hotel room and did a quick search for ''alternatives to Microsoft Office" that turned up an interesting option: OpenOffice. And it was free.
Most of us are so wedded to the idea that we have to use MS Office to be compatible with the rest of the world that we may be overlooking some interesting alternatives. If you're strapped for cash and don't use all of the high-end features available in MS Office, check out the alternatives.
