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Microsoft Office prices start at well over $100.00.
LibreOffice is an excellent alternative. It offers six programs, and you'll find most of them instantly familiar.
For example there's Writer, which is a Word clone. Then there's Calc, which is a spreadsheet like Excel. There's also Impress, a presentation program similar to PowerPoint.
Those are the options you're most likely to need. A drawing program, a database program and an equation program round out the offerings. All of these combined make for an excellent replacement to pricier suites.
LibreOffice is also compatible with the most popular document formats. It can read .DOC from Word and .XLS from Excel, for example. That only scrapes the surface of what it offers.
More expensive versions of Microsoft Office contain Microsoft Publisher. You can also buy it separately for $140. It's a great tool for professional page layout or just getting out a neighborhood newsletter.
But you might want to consider Scribus. It's a free alternative, and the Scribus site contains easy guidance for creating brochures, business cards and setting text flow around photos.
Photo Editing
Digital
photos can benefit from a good image editor. You can subtly remove blemishes and
improve lighting or add outstanding cool effects.
Photoshop is the best-known photo editor around, but it's unfortunately very expensive. Give the free photo editor GIMP a try instead. It has an impressive set of tools and can handle nearly any editing task.
Like
Photoshop, GIMP is complex and has a steep learning curve. In fact, it may be
too much for a beginner. But if you've found other programs lacking, this is
what you want.
Get it here - Click on this link: Gimp
