Tickled Squirrel May 2015 | Page 34

Tech Tips Alternatives to MS Office and Online Storage. Microsoft Office is a name that comes to most people’s mind when word processing or spreadsheet software is mentioned but it is not very cheap to buy. Rather than take the illegal copy option it is much better to consider one of the several free alternatives that are available. All of them offer the option to save files in the same formats as MS Office for compatibility with other users. The three we look at here are not the only ones there are, but I have used each of them successfully. Two of them save their work in “the cloud”, ie on a hard disk somewhere on the internet. If you’re new to th \