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When you think of office suites, you usually think of Microsoft's offering, as it is nigh synonymous with the term. No doubt, Microsoft does offer an industry-leading experience through its Office Suite, but users who seek some of that functionality will have to look elsewhere if they're after a free-to-use product.
If you're looking for such a solution, SoftMaker FreeOffice might just be for you. It offers a word processor, a spreadsheet solution, and a presentation program, all free-of-charge, while keeping many of the good things of the vaunted MS Office Suite.
Right as you open the word processor, named TextMaker, the inspiration is clear as day: if you've used Microsoft Word in the past, you'll know how to get around this one without a fuss.
Functionally, you can do a lot of the things you did in Word: writing papers of all manners won't be a problem, and the fact that you can export your works to be compatible with the Office suite helps a lot. This carries over to PlanMaker and Presentations, with the former being the spreadsheet program. A lot will feel familiar, essentially.
It's worth noting that some compatibility problems can appear along the way, and some users might see the proprietary extensions bothersome to work with, but as a free alternative, it's far from being a deal-breaker.
Comparable to the Office Suite?
That is a good question, but there's a reason for the Office suite's acclaim and widespread usage. If you were expecting this to measure up to Microsoft's offering...it does, and it doesn't, depending on where you look.
For instance, though the resemblance to their Office counterparts is there, a lot of it is merely visual. Functionally, these tools will work just fine for more casual uses, but that's about it. They're perfectly serviceable, but PlanMaker does not feature the versatility of Excel, Presentations allows you to make far less complex and intricate materials than PowerPoint, and TextMaker doesn't have the robust References menu of Word, and you won't be able to collaborate and annotate stuff as easily as Microsoft's word processor.
SoftMaker FreeOffice can be a tricky one — as an alternative to Microsoft's offering, it can't quite measure up. But as a free alternative, however? It's very much worthwhile.
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