Yes, you can use Word, Excel or PowerPoint without spending a cent, but not in every way and not for every use. This guide sorts it out honestly: what is genuinely free Microsoft Office<\/strong>, the concrete limits of each solution, and the real cost of a full license when free is no longer enough.<\/p>\n Four free and legal routes exist:<\/p>\n And if you need the real Office suite on your computer without a subscription, a low-cost Office license<\/a> with a one-time payment starts at {prix:office-2019-professional-plus}. We come back to this in detail below.<\/p>\n Microsoft’s official free solution runs in the browser. Create a free Microsoft account and you immediately get the online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, with 5 GB of OneDrive storage for your files. Microsoft’s mobile apps are free too and let you open documents and make simple edits on the go. Your documents are saved to OneDrive automatically as you type: there is nothing to save yourself, but you must stay connected.<\/p>\n For writing a letter, keeping a simple budget or opening an attachment, it is more than enough. For a long dissertation, a dashboard or a daily workstation, the limits show up very<\/em> quickly.<\/p>\n Microsoft offers a one-month trial of its subscription, with the full apps installed on your computer. Two precautions: signing up usually requires registering a payment method, and the paid subscription starts automatically at the end of the trial unless you cancel in time. Our Microsoft 365 page<\/a> explains the subscription in detail.<\/p>\n LibreOffice (Writer, Calc, Impress) and OnlyOffice are free, open-source office suites that you install on a PC or a Mac and can use offline, including at work. They open and save Word and Excel formats. Two honest reservations: the layout of complex documents can shift from one suite to another, and VBA macros do not run as they are. Our comparison of free alternatives to Microsoft Office<\/a> covers each of them.<\/p>\n Many universities, colleges and schools provide Microsoft 365 to their students through the school email address. The right reflex is to ask the IT department before spending anything. If nothing is planned, our guide Microsoft Office for students<\/a> compares every option, from free solutions to perpetual licenses.<\/p>\n The real question is not “is there a free Office?”, since the answer is yes, but “does the free version cover what I actually do?”. Here is the decision grid we apply, without bias: we sell licenses, and a license you do not need is a bad sale.<\/p>\n Stay with a free solution if:<\/p>\n Switch to a full license if:<\/p>\n Two concrete situations help. A student who takes notes and hands in short assignments will do very well in the browser; the same student, when writing a dissertation with an automatic table of contents, footnotes and strict page numbering, will be much better off with the installed version. Another case: a freelancer who prepares quotes in Excel and sometimes works on the train needs software that runs offline and is licensed for business use, which the free version does not provide.<\/p>\n Three approaches, three logics. The prices shown are the ones currently applied on Euro Shop Key.<\/p>\n\n
Office for the web: free Word, Excel and PowerPoint in your browser<\/h2>\n
What the free web version lets you do<\/h3>\n
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What is missing compared with the installed software<\/h3>\n
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Microsoft 365 trial, LibreOffice, student offers: the other free options<\/h2>\n
The free Microsoft 365 trial<\/h3>\n
LibreOffice and OnlyOffice: free for good<\/h3>\n
Free Office for students: ask your school first<\/h3>\n
When free is enough, and when it is not<\/h2>\n
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Free, lifetime license or subscription: the comparison<\/h2>\n