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For starters, Office 2013 doesn’t mean anything to the Mac: it’s for Windows computers only. Office 365, on the other hand, does impact Mac users, but it doesn’t introduce any new features; rather, it’s essentially a new licensing model for Office for Mac. A subscription to Office 365 ($10 per month.

Microsoft's Office 365 and Office 2016 are both great products, offering up a full suite of tools that allow you to get more done on a daily basis. As an upside to Office 365, the subscription-based service, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage is also included. Nevertheless, cost is usually a deciding factor — a year of Office 365 Personal costs about $70 while Office Home & Student 2016 costs about $150 — which is why there are plenty of great alternatives for you to try.

Zoho Office

Zoho Office has everything personal users love about an office suite, and businesses can't get enough of their powerful enterprise tools. Writer, Sheet, and Show are feature-laden Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives with a familiar look, and enterprise tools like Projects and Books make it easy for businesses to keep track of customers, employees, and finances. Zoho even has its own cloud storage system synced up with your office documents, which has tools for administrators and analytics. There's likewise Zoho Mail rounding things out, as well as iOS and Android apps to keep you busy when you're away from your home or office.

The free version of Zoho comes with 5GB of cloud storage and is available for teams of up to 25 members. For 100GB of storage and for more team members, pricing switches to $4 per user, per month, then goes up to $6.40 per user, per month for 1TB of storage and some extra features designed for businesses. If you'd like to give it a shot without committing, there is a 15-day free trial available.

G Suite (Google Apps)

Hotline miami mac torrent. Google offers a very nice free online office suite that also packages offline support. Docs, Sheets, and Slides are competent Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives, but don't expect to find the same level of in-depth formatting that Microsoft Office offers. Everything you create in Google Apps is automatically saved to cloud storage anytime a change is made, and there is a far-reaching revision function that lets you go over each change and decide whether or not you want to keep it. You can also export and import files in all common file types.

With a Google account, you get 15GB of free storage in the cloud to hold your documents, and anyone with a Google account (and the right permissions) can share, view, and edit documents. There is likewise a paid alternative to the free Google Apps, known as G Suite. It's more business-oriented, offering up business email and thorough support, as well as more Google Drive storage space. The Basic subscription costs about $5 per user, per month and nets you 30GB, the Business subscription (about $10 per user, per month) adds a low-code app development environment, smart search, and unlimited cloud storage for teams of more than five users. Finally, the Enterprise option (about $25 per user, per month) adds further data loss prevention tools and analytics.

WPS Office

WPS Office has a few options to choose from, including free, premium, and professional versions that come with some different features. WPS Office Free gives you access to Writer, Presentation, and Spreadsheets, and 1GB of cloud storage let you quickly and easily share documents. To subsidize the service, you will see some ads once in a while.

WPS Office Premium costs about $30 for a year's subscription, but it lets you connect up to nine devices at once, there are no ads, you get access to a ton of templates, and the office tools come with extra features. You still get 1GB of cloud storage for sharing, and there's a PDF reader that can convert PDFs into Word filetypes.

Finally, WPS Office Premium — about $45 per year for one PC or $80 for lifetime access on one PC — adds further support for different languages as well as full support to help you get acquainted with the suite of tools.

Microsoft Office Online

If you're well acquainted with Microsoft's Office tools and would rather not change, you can always give Office Online a shot. It has free browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that can be used indefinitely as long as you have internet access.

You can move between the online version and full desktop-based Office at any time without losing work or formatting, and you do get most of the same core features in each app. Best part? It's completely free. If you're planning to work on a device with a screen smaller than 10.1 inches, you can likewise check out Microsoft Office Mobile for free.

SoftMaker Office

SoftMaker Office features Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives — known here as TextMaker, PlanMaker, and Presentation — that use Microsoft Office file formats for easy transitions. Choose from ribbon or classic button UI in the Office apps, take advantage of support for multiple languages, and even handle email with integrated Thunderbird, one of our favorite email apps for Windows 10.

There is a 30-day trial version to help you decide whether or not SoftMaker Office is for you. After that, prices go from about $45 per year for five devices, or about $100 for a Professional version that only needs to be purchased once.

LibreOffice 6

When it comes to free office suites, LibreOffice is right up among the best. It includes the three core apps — Writer, Calc, and Impress — that replace Word's own Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and it also has Draw (diagrams), Base (database), and Math (formula editor) for added functionality.

LibreOffice works with a ton of file formats, including those associated with Microsoft Office, and there are over 350 extensions available for download to help make it feel more like your own set of tools. If you used to use OpenOffice, know that LibreOffice is the successor that's as good or better in just about every way.

Corel WordPerfect

Corel WordPerfect has come a long way, resulting in a powerful office suite with all the tools you'd expect. WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, and WordPerfect Lightning are equivalents to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, plus there's eBook publisher and photo editing software.

It supports plenty of popular file types, there are thousands of clipart images, plenty of templates and fonts, and a built-in dictionary. This is just scratching the surface of features available in WordPerfect, making it well worth the price tag. A Home & Student edition starts at about $75 and doesn't include some of the extra features like ebook publishing, while a Standard edition with all features starts at about $250. If you'd like to give it a shot before buying, there is a 30-day free trial available.

Related resources

Updated August 21, 2018: We refreshed this list of Office alternatives to ensure you're still getting the best of the best if you'd like to go without Microsoft's suite.

We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more.

Fix it up

New Windows 10 driver bug is a big one — here's the fix

A security setting in Windows may prevent your PC's drivers from installing or working properly, and that's a big deal. Fortunately, there's a pretty easy workaround available.

Editor’s note 8/17/2015:
The blog post was updated to reflect the upcoming availability of Skype for Business in 2016.

Editor’s note 7/28/2015:
We updated this post to reflect that support for Arabic, Hebrew and Thai language documents on iPad and iPhone was delivered on July 23, 2015. The Office apps for iPad and iPhone are now available in the Office App Store in Arab countries, Israel and Thailand.

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.

The response to last week’s release of Office 2016 for Mac has been amazing—thank you to all our customers! The post was one of the most read and shared Office Blog posts this year, receiving hundreds of great comments and questions. We thought it would be helpful to share the top questions and answers with you.

1. Where do I get Office 2016 for Mac?

Office 2016 for Mac is currently only available for Office 365 subscription customers. It will be available via one-time purchase in late September. In the meantime, here are the instructions on how you can get Office 2016 for Mac today:

  • Office 365 subscribers—On your Mac, browse to your account page (office.com/myaccount), sign in and follow the installation instructions. If you have Office 365 through your organization, go to portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx.
  • Non-Office 365 subscribers—Visit office.com/mac to learn about ways to purchase an Office 365 subscription, either for you or your organization.
  • Students—You may get Office 2016 for Mac for free or at a substantial discount. You can find out at office.com/student.

2. When will Office 2016 for Mac be available for people and businesses who don’t want a subscription?

For businesses, Volume Licensing customers will be able to download Office 2016 for Mac from their Volume Licensing Service Center in early August.

For consumers, Office 2016 for Mac will become available as a one-time purchase option in late September.

Additionally, MSDN subscribers will also be able to get the new Office for Mac in September.

3. When will the Office 2016 for Mac preview stop working?

We are extending the use of the Office 2016 for Mac preview until the end of October, in large part based on your feedback.

Originally, we planned to let the Office for Mac preview expire on August 9, 2015, 30 days after launch. However, several customers commented that this was before the availability of the one-time purchase version in September, leaving some preview participants without Office 2016 for weeks. As a result of this feedback, we are extending the life of the preview until the end of October. This will give preview participants about one month to move to Office 2016 as a one-time purchase, or over three months for those who want an Office 365 subscription.

4. Can I use Office 2016 for Mac and Office for Mac 2011 on the same Mac?

Yes, you can use them side-by-side on the same Mac. And by the way, here’s how you add the app icons for Office 2016 to the dock.

5. When will OneDrive for Business and Skype for Business for Mac be available?

OneDrive for Business will be available before the end of the year and Skype for Business in 2016. Stay tuned to the Office Blog if you want to participate in the preview of Skype and OneDrive.

6. I have a technical problem. Where do I go?

The best place to start is support.office.com/home/contact. Otherwise you can let us know if there is something you like or don’t like by clicking the “send a smile/frown” right from within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote or Outlook.

7. How can I request a new feature?

You can submit your feature request on the new suggestion box service for each application: word.uservoice.com, excel.uservoice.com, powerpoint.uservoice.com, outlook.uservoice.com and onenote.uservoice.com.

8. I’m having problems with Outlook connectivity and reliability. What’s happening?

A number of customers reported hangs or crashes in Outlook 2016 for Mac. The Outlook team is aware of these issues and has identified two specific issues along with their root cause. In one, a small subset of customers saw frequent crashes due to some optimization work that the Outlook team was performing. The other involved hangs for customers with multiple IMAP or POP accounts. Fixes for both issues will be released this week, and customers will be automatically notified by Microsoft AutoUpdate.

We’ve also heard the requests for Gmail and iCloud calendar and contacts sync. We’ll be adding these and other feature requests through monthly updates. Stay tuned to the Office Blog for further updates as we finalize our plans here.

9. What are your plans for Visual Basic support?

Existing macros continue to work in Office 2016 for Mac. When accessing local files, you may encounter permission prompts due to Mac OS X sandboxing. We’ve added methods to the object model to allow you to update macros to minimize the number of prompts.

Office 2016 for Mac provides a simplified Visual Basic Editor (VBE) for viewing/debugging existing macros. We recommend that customers develop macros or VB add-ins in Office for Windows and use Office for Mac to debug if needed. We will continue to ensure compatibility of existing macros and make improvements to the IDE. In the future, we will include the new web-based add-in model in Office for Mac products, which work across devices and platforms, giving add-in developers a modern web development experience. These new add-ins are already available in Outlook for Mac today and will come to the rest of Office for Mac over time. They are available today for Office for Windows for Word and Excel on iPad.

10. When will Office 2016 for Mac be available in Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages? What about other languages?

We’ve heard your feedback and questions about right-to-left (RTL) language support. We are committed to doing RTL languages for Office for Mac. We are currently working through timing and will communicate our plans when we have a clearer sense of the timeline.

Support for Arabic, Hebrew and Thai language documents on iPad and iPhone was delivered on July 23, 2015. The Office apps for iPad and iPhone are now available in the Office App Store in Arab countries, Israel and Thailand. And we will release additional updates for RTL languages shortly after the iOS 9 release.

More broadly, Office for Mac is currently available in the following 16 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. And Office 2016 for Mac is available in all countries where Office 365 is available except for Turkey. Office for Mac will be available in Turkey in September when the Turkish language version is ready.

Thank you again for the incredible response to Office 2016 for Mac. The team is already hard at work on the first update for Office 365 customers. We’ll share more information soon. Please keep sending us your questions, feedback and suggestions—it’s very helpful as we prioritize the backlog to create the best Office for Mac experience for you!

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For starters, Office 2013 doesn’t mean anything to the Mac: it’s for Windows computers only. Office 365, on the other hand, does impact Mac users, but it doesn’t introduce any new features; rather, it’s essentially a new licensing model for Office for Mac. A subscription to Office 365 ($10 per month.

Microsoft's Office 365 and Office 2016 are both great products, offering up a full suite of tools that allow you to get more done on a daily basis. As an upside to Office 365, the subscription-based service, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage is also included. Nevertheless, cost is usually a deciding factor — a year of Office 365 Personal costs about $70 while Office Home & Student 2016 costs about $150 — which is why there are plenty of great alternatives for you to try.

Zoho Office

Zoho Office has everything personal users love about an office suite, and businesses can't get enough of their powerful enterprise tools. Writer, Sheet, and Show are feature-laden Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives with a familiar look, and enterprise tools like Projects and Books make it easy for businesses to keep track of customers, employees, and finances. Zoho even has its own cloud storage system synced up with your office documents, which has tools for administrators and analytics. There's likewise Zoho Mail rounding things out, as well as iOS and Android apps to keep you busy when you're away from your home or office.

The free version of Zoho comes with 5GB of cloud storage and is available for teams of up to 25 members. For 100GB of storage and for more team members, pricing switches to $4 per user, per month, then goes up to $6.40 per user, per month for 1TB of storage and some extra features designed for businesses. If you'd like to give it a shot without committing, there is a 15-day free trial available.

G Suite (Google Apps)

Hotline miami mac torrent. Google offers a very nice free online office suite that also packages offline support. Docs, Sheets, and Slides are competent Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives, but don't expect to find the same level of in-depth formatting that Microsoft Office offers. Everything you create in Google Apps is automatically saved to cloud storage anytime a change is made, and there is a far-reaching revision function that lets you go over each change and decide whether or not you want to keep it. You can also export and import files in all common file types.

With a Google account, you get 15GB of free storage in the cloud to hold your documents, and anyone with a Google account (and the right permissions) can share, view, and edit documents. There is likewise a paid alternative to the free Google Apps, known as G Suite. It's more business-oriented, offering up business email and thorough support, as well as more Google Drive storage space. The Basic subscription costs about $5 per user, per month and nets you 30GB, the Business subscription (about $10 per user, per month) adds a low-code app development environment, smart search, and unlimited cloud storage for teams of more than five users. Finally, the Enterprise option (about $25 per user, per month) adds further data loss prevention tools and analytics.

WPS Office

WPS Office has a few options to choose from, including free, premium, and professional versions that come with some different features. WPS Office Free gives you access to Writer, Presentation, and Spreadsheets, and 1GB of cloud storage let you quickly and easily share documents. To subsidize the service, you will see some ads once in a while.

WPS Office Premium costs about $30 for a year's subscription, but it lets you connect up to nine devices at once, there are no ads, you get access to a ton of templates, and the office tools come with extra features. You still get 1GB of cloud storage for sharing, and there's a PDF reader that can convert PDFs into Word filetypes.

Finally, WPS Office Premium — about $45 per year for one PC or $80 for lifetime access on one PC — adds further support for different languages as well as full support to help you get acquainted with the suite of tools.

Microsoft Office Online

If you're well acquainted with Microsoft's Office tools and would rather not change, you can always give Office Online a shot. It has free browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that can be used indefinitely as long as you have internet access.

You can move between the online version and full desktop-based Office at any time without losing work or formatting, and you do get most of the same core features in each app. Best part? It's completely free. If you're planning to work on a device with a screen smaller than 10.1 inches, you can likewise check out Microsoft Office Mobile for free.

SoftMaker Office

SoftMaker Office features Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives — known here as TextMaker, PlanMaker, and Presentation — that use Microsoft Office file formats for easy transitions. Choose from ribbon or classic button UI in the Office apps, take advantage of support for multiple languages, and even handle email with integrated Thunderbird, one of our favorite email apps for Windows 10.

There is a 30-day trial version to help you decide whether or not SoftMaker Office is for you. After that, prices go from about $45 per year for five devices, or about $100 for a Professional version that only needs to be purchased once.

LibreOffice 6

When it comes to free office suites, LibreOffice is right up among the best. It includes the three core apps — Writer, Calc, and Impress — that replace Word's own Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and it also has Draw (diagrams), Base (database), and Math (formula editor) for added functionality.

LibreOffice works with a ton of file formats, including those associated with Microsoft Office, and there are over 350 extensions available for download to help make it feel more like your own set of tools. If you used to use OpenOffice, know that LibreOffice is the successor that's as good or better in just about every way.

Corel WordPerfect

Corel WordPerfect has come a long way, resulting in a powerful office suite with all the tools you'd expect. WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, and WordPerfect Lightning are equivalents to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, plus there's eBook publisher and photo editing software.

It supports plenty of popular file types, there are thousands of clipart images, plenty of templates and fonts, and a built-in dictionary. This is just scratching the surface of features available in WordPerfect, making it well worth the price tag. A Home & Student edition starts at about $75 and doesn't include some of the extra features like ebook publishing, while a Standard edition with all features starts at about $250. If you'd like to give it a shot before buying, there is a 30-day free trial available.

Related resources

Updated August 21, 2018: We refreshed this list of Office alternatives to ensure you're still getting the best of the best if you'd like to go without Microsoft's suite.

We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more.

Fix it up

New Windows 10 driver bug is a big one — here's the fix

A security setting in Windows may prevent your PC's drivers from installing or working properly, and that's a big deal. Fortunately, there's a pretty easy workaround available.

Editor’s note 8/17/2015:
The blog post was updated to reflect the upcoming availability of Skype for Business in 2016.

Editor’s note 7/28/2015:
We updated this post to reflect that support for Arabic, Hebrew and Thai language documents on iPad and iPhone was delivered on July 23, 2015. The Office apps for iPad and iPhone are now available in the Office App Store in Arab countries, Israel and Thailand.

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.

The response to last week’s release of Office 2016 for Mac has been amazing—thank you to all our customers! The post was one of the most read and shared Office Blog posts this year, receiving hundreds of great comments and questions. We thought it would be helpful to share the top questions and answers with you.

1. Where do I get Office 2016 for Mac?

Office 2016 for Mac is currently only available for Office 365 subscription customers. It will be available via one-time purchase in late September. In the meantime, here are the instructions on how you can get Office 2016 for Mac today:

  • Office 365 subscribers—On your Mac, browse to your account page (office.com/myaccount), sign in and follow the installation instructions. If you have Office 365 through your organization, go to portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx.
  • Non-Office 365 subscribers—Visit office.com/mac to learn about ways to purchase an Office 365 subscription, either for you or your organization.
  • Students—You may get Office 2016 for Mac for free or at a substantial discount. You can find out at office.com/student.

2. When will Office 2016 for Mac be available for people and businesses who don’t want a subscription?

For businesses, Volume Licensing customers will be able to download Office 2016 for Mac from their Volume Licensing Service Center in early August.

For consumers, Office 2016 for Mac will become available as a one-time purchase option in late September.

Additionally, MSDN subscribers will also be able to get the new Office for Mac in September.

3. When will the Office 2016 for Mac preview stop working?

We are extending the use of the Office 2016 for Mac preview until the end of October, in large part based on your feedback.

Originally, we planned to let the Office for Mac preview expire on August 9, 2015, 30 days after launch. However, several customers commented that this was before the availability of the one-time purchase version in September, leaving some preview participants without Office 2016 for weeks. As a result of this feedback, we are extending the life of the preview until the end of October. This will give preview participants about one month to move to Office 2016 as a one-time purchase, or over three months for those who want an Office 365 subscription.

4. Can I use Office 2016 for Mac and Office for Mac 2011 on the same Mac?

Yes, you can use them side-by-side on the same Mac. And by the way, here’s how you add the app icons for Office 2016 to the dock.

5. When will OneDrive for Business and Skype for Business for Mac be available?

OneDrive for Business will be available before the end of the year and Skype for Business in 2016. Stay tuned to the Office Blog if you want to participate in the preview of Skype and OneDrive.

6. I have a technical problem. Where do I go?

The best place to start is support.office.com/home/contact. Otherwise you can let us know if there is something you like or don’t like by clicking the “send a smile/frown” right from within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote or Outlook.

7. How can I request a new feature?

You can submit your feature request on the new suggestion box service for each application: word.uservoice.com, excel.uservoice.com, powerpoint.uservoice.com, outlook.uservoice.com and onenote.uservoice.com.

8. I’m having problems with Outlook connectivity and reliability. What’s happening?

A number of customers reported hangs or crashes in Outlook 2016 for Mac. The Outlook team is aware of these issues and has identified two specific issues along with their root cause. In one, a small subset of customers saw frequent crashes due to some optimization work that the Outlook team was performing. The other involved hangs for customers with multiple IMAP or POP accounts. Fixes for both issues will be released this week, and customers will be automatically notified by Microsoft AutoUpdate.

We’ve also heard the requests for Gmail and iCloud calendar and contacts sync. We’ll be adding these and other feature requests through monthly updates. Stay tuned to the Office Blog for further updates as we finalize our plans here.

9. What are your plans for Visual Basic support?

Existing macros continue to work in Office 2016 for Mac. When accessing local files, you may encounter permission prompts due to Mac OS X sandboxing. We’ve added methods to the object model to allow you to update macros to minimize the number of prompts.

Office 2016 for Mac provides a simplified Visual Basic Editor (VBE) for viewing/debugging existing macros. We recommend that customers develop macros or VB add-ins in Office for Windows and use Office for Mac to debug if needed. We will continue to ensure compatibility of existing macros and make improvements to the IDE. In the future, we will include the new web-based add-in model in Office for Mac products, which work across devices and platforms, giving add-in developers a modern web development experience. These new add-ins are already available in Outlook for Mac today and will come to the rest of Office for Mac over time. They are available today for Office for Windows for Word and Excel on iPad.

10. When will Office 2016 for Mac be available in Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages? What about other languages?

We’ve heard your feedback and questions about right-to-left (RTL) language support. We are committed to doing RTL languages for Office for Mac. We are currently working through timing and will communicate our plans when we have a clearer sense of the timeline.

Support for Arabic, Hebrew and Thai language documents on iPad and iPhone was delivered on July 23, 2015. The Office apps for iPad and iPhone are now available in the Office App Store in Arab countries, Israel and Thailand. And we will release additional updates for RTL languages shortly after the iOS 9 release.

More broadly, Office for Mac is currently available in the following 16 languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. And Office 2016 for Mac is available in all countries where Office 365 is available except for Turkey. Office for Mac will be available in Turkey in September when the Turkish language version is ready.

Thank you again for the incredible response to Office 2016 for Mac. The team is already hard at work on the first update for Office 365 customers. We’ll share more information soon. Please keep sending us your questions, feedback and suggestions—it’s very helpful as we prioritize the backlog to create the best Office for Mac experience for you!

Specializes in developing and distributing consumer video and audio transfer products and other consumer technology products. VIDBOX - Capture Your Life! Watch - View recorded video on your Mac using QuickTime or iTunes. BurnDVD - Archive and burn your memories to DVD using iDVD on your Mac (if available). Hardware Setup. System Requirements: Operating Systems: Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks or higher; Available USB 2.0 or 3.0 Port; Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or higher; Memory: 1GB of RAM. VIDBOX Video conversion for Mac provides everything you need to easily convert your videos to digital formats. All you need is a VCR/camcorder and a Mac. Step-by-step pictorial instructions guide you through the process. Vidbox software for mac.

—Kirk Koenigsbauer