Importing and exporting Word, Excel and PowerPoint files is rarely perfect and it only works for the simplest of documents. You can use other applications instead of Office, but you will probably find that you then need to export files in Office format to give them to other people or import Office format files that people send you.

The most common applications used in businesses are the Microsoft Office apps and they have become a standard. But why pay for them when you can get them for free? Here’s what you need to do. Microsoft Office has some excellent applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and several more.