[FONT="]Besides taking a lot your money every couple of years, what exactly has Microsoft done for you lately? Other than complicate your life with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and an endless stream of features that are seldom used.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]LibreOffice is free, but is it an adequate alternative? Not really. I can't get familiar with it's geeky interface, it's slow processing speed, and, above all, it's awful compatibility with Microsoft Office: Tables, figure captions and formatting like superscript and subscript are really messed up between MS Office and Libreoffice and vice versa., headers and footers have also created issues for me at times. It doesn't open password-protected files properly, and produces a lot of screwed-up layout generally.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Better try out SoftMaker Office, it's not free, but cheap ($69 for three licenses, including free support), and it will save your nerves. TextNMaker, PlanMaker, and SoftMaker Presentations display your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files faithfully, it's speed is awesome, and it has a comfortable UI. Have a look at the website of SoftMaker and download the free 30-day trial version, compare it with LibreOffice, and you'll know what I mean.[/FONT]