Do you have to pay to use Excel?

[sgrimshaw]

Pints said:

Downloaded Libre yesterday and very impressed. Will be replacing OpenOffice for me.

If you liked Libre, try WPS Office 2016 Free as well ... especially if you only need the basics like Excel and Word functionality.

I tried both (plus some others) whilst looking for a free Office package for my wife's laptop. I was hard pushed to tell the difference between WPS's spreadsheet and word processing programs and Excel / Word.

[XJSJohn]

mybrainhurts said:

Eeee lads, it were all different when I were a lad.

First available spreadsheet had to run on the mainframe, came on a tape, was very basic and cost £12,000

So Lotus 123 was so advanced that it blew your socks off!!!!

[Pints]

sgrimshaw said:

If you liked Libre, try WPS Office 2016 Free as well ... especially if you only need the basics like Excel and Word functionality.

I tried both (plus some others) whilst looking for a free Office package for my wife's laptop. I was hard pushed to tell the difference between WPS's spreadsheet and word processing programs and Excel / Word.

Does it include a PowerPoint equivalent?

[Jimmy Recard]

Pints said:

Does it include a PowerPoint equivalent?

Yes, it's called Presentation and is very similar to PowerPoint.

I haven't decided which to use out of WPS and Libre - I'm thinking I'll check which takes more disk space and use the lighter one

[mondeoman]

Google sheets?

[Ransoman]

Does your employer use office 365 for their hosted email system and do they get their office subscriptions from 365 as well?

If the answer to both of those is yes then you already have a licence for Office which is valid for 5 devices. It expires when you leave your employment though,