Open Word, Excel, PowerPoint Files Without MS Office

Microsoft Office is a prominent suite that offers Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs to create document files. It is widely used in Schools, Companies, Hospitals, and many more commercial places to create records and presentations. Microsoft Office Suite with its amazing features helps to make the document file more creative and interactive. One can add text, images, videos, slides, tables, hyperlinks, etc.

Different Ways to Open Or Edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint Files Without Office?

Below are some Offline and Online methods to Open and Edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint Without MS Office. Let’s have a look at these various alternative methods:

Warning: For using Online or Offline Methods, you need to use only non-corrupted or undamaged MS Office file. Since these solutions only support undamaged files to open, edit, store and share the Microsoft Office files.

Open Office Programs with Online Methods

1. Google Docs

Google Docs is the better solution to open, edit and share your MS office files globally since it is always present in the cloud. For accessing the process, you need an internet connection to open and edit your particular documents from any corner of the world. Also, try the online word processor for one file format to Google Docs file format.

For Word documents: Google Docs support not only DOC files but also DOCX files without any problem. Once the file is opened and edited the file, then you can easily save them on your computer as Word, HTML OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, or zip files format.

For Excel spreadsheets: Google Docs is highly compatible to accept XLS and XLSX file format files with ease. So, if you want to use your Excel spreadsheet, then Google Docs offers a facility to import and convert them into CSV, XLSX, XLS, TXT and ODS file formats that can be exported again. For faster response, you can try Google Docs Viewer.

2. LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free online suite that helps to open and edit MS Office files without using Microsoft office program. It creates word text documents, excels spreadsheets, and presentations, that you can directly save into Microsoft Office file formats. With LibreOffice, you receive accessibility to user needs, Impress, Draw, Math, Writer, Calc, and Base to open, edit and share MS Office files.

3. One Drive

OneDrive helps to open and save Microsoft files from anywhere, on any device flawlessly. You can easily display, share and work together with anybody in your work and free time. It completely supports users to open, edit and share word file, excel worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, and so on easily. It can easily send are files and photos on different computers, Android, Mac, and iOS.

Open Office Programs with Offline Methods

1. OpenOffice

OpenOffice is a remarkable feature-added alternative, launched by Sun Microsystems to support Microsoft Office files without any internet connection. It widely supports 120 languages and highly compatible with all major platforms like Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac OS.

Here are the records of modules that is served by OpenOffice:

• Base – It used to access your files database
• Calc – Supports Word processor as well as a Spreadsheet program.
• Draw – Generate not only logos but also different flow charts.
• Impress – Offers innovative Presentation program
• Math – Helps to create scientific formulas and equations.

2. IBM Lotus Symphony

IBM Lotus Symphony is another offline solution that can offer you open, edit and save your Microsoft Office documents like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentations with ease. It supports various MS office file formats, and some of the file extensions are .doc, .dot, .docx, .dotx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, .pptx, . .odp, .otp, .prz, .smc, odp, .otp, .prz,.smc,.sxi, .sti, .mwp.123, .12m, .xml, .csv, .xls, .xlt, .xlsx, .ppt, .pot, .pptx, . .odp, .otp, .prz,.smc, .sxi, .sti, etc.

3. Microsoft Viewer programs

Viewer programs by Microsoft can be used after downloading it on your computer to open, edit and save Microsoft Office Files Without Office.

• Word Viewer
• Excel Viewer
• PowerPoint Viewer

How to Open Corrupt DOC, XLS & PPT Files without MS Office?

SysInfoTools always do its best to resolve users issues that they generally face in their daily life. One of the common issues that, using the online and offline methods, you can only open your non-corrupted files only. We have developed data recovery tools that are effective and perfectly open corrupt files. The software is available in two versions i.e. demo version and licensed version, you can try our demo version for performance evaluation. The software helps to preview the corrupt Microsoft Office Word, Excel & PowerPoint files easily.

1. For Word Files

Word Repair tool smartly opens the word documents files. It supports different versions like: .doc, .docm, .dotx, .docx, & .dotm and preview then into the preview pane. Additional, you no need to spend single money for the entire process. It is highly compatible with Microsoft Word i.e. from 2016 to 2007 versions. It can easily recover corrupt MS Word Document.

2. For Excel Files

Excel Repair tool v2.0 not only accepts corrupt old XLSX but also new XLS files. It proficiently opens the corrupted excel spreadsheets files on the computer. Additionally, it permits users to use the software features without investing any monetary on the procedure. It allows preview of readable contents like formulae, notes, texts, Unicode characters, graphs, tables, images, cell data, text formatting, etc. from highly corrupt excel files into the preview navigation pane.

3. For PowerPoint files

PowerPoint PPT Repair tool is highly user-friendly and secure software that helped to open damaged PPT files. It allows you to open and preview the original contents of PowerPoint files without making any changes to it. PPT Recovery tool supports Windows 10 and Microsoft 2016 or its earlier versions.

Note: To save the recovered files, you need to purchase the full version of every software

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