Is there a free version of MS Office out there?

Nope. But Google Docs is compatible, and free.

Ditto to @zenvelo. You can use the Google services for free, and that includes Excel and other things too.

Do a search for OPEN OFFICE. It is a free download.

So is Libre Office. And both it and Open Office are nicely simpler and in my view less annoying than the versions of MS Office that have been made in the last 20 years or so.

Libre is working out great!

Open Office is very good, and I currently have MS Office for students or something like that.

I use Kingsoft. It is just like Microsoft office. It has program like Word, one like Excel, one like Powerpoint. It is compatible with the Microsoft document you might download. Open Office is also a good free one. There is another one that I know of but the name escapes me.

Yes, Microsoft Office online is free. It gives you limited versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, but for many uses, they work fine.

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