No doubt that Microsoft Office is probably the most complete office application, well worth the price. Most of our free office alternative might be to use OpenOffice or LibreOffice. But, now increased by one again became a paid office software freeware (free), which is Kingsoft Office 2012 Suite Free.
Finding the office applications that can replace Microsoft Office is not easy. In terms of features, OpenOffice / LibreOffice may be said to be quite complete, but in terms of appearance or the interface is still not as easy as using Word or Excel (not userfriendly). But it seems that impression will change when using Kingsoft Office 2012 Suite Free.
Kingsoft Office application of these had previously been paid applications for around $ 69.95, but is now released for free (Free). Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 did not use the view "Ribbon" typical office 2007 or 2010, but still use the display as Office XP or 2003. But it did not matter, because most of us still seem to get used to using Office 2003 look, let alone very familiar menus (user friendly).
In this package included three applications, namely Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Presentation. Each one includes a feature similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Although relatively small installation size, but these features are included so much, even compatible with Microsoft Office 97.2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010.
Here are some excellent features Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012:
- Userfriendly display, very similar to Microsoft Office 2003
- Strong Compatibility, Compatible (can open, edit and save) MS Office Word documents (. Doc,. Docx), Excel (. Xls,. Xlsx) and Powerpoint (. Ppt,. Pptx) both versions 97/2000/2003/2007 or 2010.
- Already integrated with PDF Converter, to convert documents into PDF.
- Automatic Spell check
- Multiple document tabs, open multiple documents in tabs like a web browser
- Protection of documents with encryption (password-document)
- Ease of set up tables in the document, with the shortcut when editing table
- Mild as opening and running, 3 apps with installation size of only about 70 MB
Compared with other free applications like OpenOffice, Ashampoo Office, or the like, I see this is indeed the most complete applications, especially with its userfriendly display (very similar to MS Office 2003). So for those who seek an alternative to MS Office, this program is the right choice.
This office applications can be installed on Windows 2000/Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7, with minimal CPU Pentium II 266 MHz 128 MB RAM and 200 MB hard disk space.
Download: office_suite_free_2012.exe (68.3 MB)