By Helen Bradley | Posted June 16, 2015
4 Free Spreadsheet Alternatives to Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is the world's leading spreadsheet application, and it's the one by which all others are measured. However, having the Microsoft brand on your small business software can be costly. If you're looking for a no-cost Excel alternative, you have plenty of free applications to choose from including small business apps that operate in the cloudIn this roundup, we'll look at four free Excel alternatives—one of which is a free version of Excel itself. They're all solid, quality spreadsheet tools that, depending on your small business's needs, can readily replace Excel and save you money. Let's take a look at their capabilities and limitations.Google Drive
Google Drive includes a spreadsheet component called Google Sheets. These Google Drive applications are cloud based, so you need a good, consistent connection to the Internet to use them.Google Sheets includes what you would expect to find in value='18' name='auto_time'>We look at four free Microsoft Excel alternatives and show why you can easily keep any of these spreadsheet apps in your office applications toolkit.
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Number-Crunching: Calc is the spreadsheet program within the free OpenOffice suite. It looks a bit like a mash-up of Numbers and Microsoft Excel, as there’s a large ‘side-deck’ palette on. Microsoft sells Excel for Mac as part of Office for Mac. That would be equivalent. Otherwise, there are a few spreadsheet apps for Mac, including Numbers from Apple's iWork office suite, LibreOffice (free and open source), and others.
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