Best free alternatives to Microsoft Office

The thing with WPS Office is:

After printing a number of times -in their Word equivalent- it starts putting watermarks on the printout.
That said, not sure if it's changed, but this was the case beginning of 2016 still.

I put it on a few new laptops for this place I was contracting at and when it hit "the number" it started with the watermark thing.
I was totally embarrassed. I hardly printed anything, so I wasn't aware of this "feature", having already used the software for a few years. (The only way to get rid of it was to pay.)

I promptly uninstalled it and installed Libre Office...as far as I know, they haven't looked back.

Not sure if this has changed in the meantime, but yeah...I rather recommend Libre Office these days.
They removed the watermark on print since June 2016 version
You have to register in app (free) to get the PDF module with lots of tools
 
Toss up between Libre and Google Docs. Comparable features really. Both very close to Microsoft.
I tend to switch between them randomly.
(One thing Libre has which is better than anyone else is support for mulitple scripting languages, including Python).

Edit:
To break it down in my experience:
Spreadsheets: Excel > Goolge > Libre
Word docs: Libre > Word / Google
Other: Who cares, I guess Powerpoint is better for presentations(offline), if your presentation machine is connected to the Internet, there are a host of online presentation tools which make PPT look rubbish.

Sheets > Excel, just due to script and automation.
 
The "text to columns" function in LibreOffice Calc is much nicer to work with than Excel. I have it installed for that alone.
Excel tries to "guess" the formatting when you open the document, then when you specify the delimiters, etc, it tells you there are data in the target cells already ...
LibreOffice Calc opens up with the formatting dialogue by default, and manage to even get right multiline cells which Excel tends to break.
 
The "text to columns" function in LibreOffice Calc is much nicer to work with than Excel. I have it installed for that alone.
Excel tries to "guess" the formatting when you open the document, then when you specify the delimiters, etc, it tells you there are data in the target cells already ...
LibreOffice Calc opens up with the formatting dialogue by default, and manage to even get right multiline cells which Excel tends to break.

That's good to know. It's one of the few failings I've found in Google Sheets so far. Their text-to-columns sucks, but I've never needed to try it in Libre. This will come in useful tho.
 
Sheets > Excel, just due to script and automation.

What do you use for scripting? Javascript? Or do you just mean the built-in formulae? (Those are excellent).
 
The best free alternative is of course Microsoft Office itself online, if you absolutely can't deal with learning something new.

However I've preferred Google Docs for many years now for personal use and see no reason to use Microsoft Office at all.

In the workplace Microsoft Excel still reigns supreme for many functions.
 
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