

A few days after downloading the free version, the company will e-mail you an offer for the commercial version (SoftmakerOffice) for only $20. Since it’s free, it’s worth checking out. There is a commercial version with a few more features, but the free version is all that most folks will ever need. It will run on OS X 10.15 when it is released. It has a nicer interface than MS Word, and in my testing it has shockingly good compatibility with Word format files (both rendering and saving much better than LibreOffice’s or Pages compatibility), and it’s absolutely free. Things might be different for other components of the suite.) We think that we’ve found an excellent alternative! (Our discussions have mainly involved Word.

But we need Office, mostly for compatibility with other Office users. A huge number of Macintosh users either hate Microsoft, or they hate how much they overcharge for Office. We’ve been discussing this on other discussion lists.

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