HI, i have recently lost access to my microsoft word account because we have changed emails. I cant afford another one at the moment. I have been told that i can use open office for free as a download and will give me word, powerpoint and excel free. My computer is a MAC and i am operating on Catalina OS (10.15). I have gone into open office and it is so confusing to identify what i need to do in order to download, it is asking for a credit card? if it is free why?
Microsoft has a free solution for updating your account after a changed email address. Because you are on Catalina, Microsoft no longer supports that operating system with Office updates, nor allows new installations of Office, but you can continue to use MS Office apps that are already installed.
Otherwise, forget about OpenOffice. As already mentioned, the free LibreOffice is updated frequently, and a more substantial product with PDF documentation. It is an MS Office clone and provides document compatibility with Word (Writer), Excel (Calc), and Powerpoint (Impress) documents and also has a drawing tool (Draw). There is an optional database (Base) component too, but that requires current Java installation adding more complexity and knowledge demand than you may want to introduce.
d3342ee215