- This page last updated on 11 June 2026
Office Programs
What Are Office Programs?
An Office Program is a suite of programs that include, but not limited to: Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation and Database Management.
Some programs will require a one-off payment or a subscription, while others are free and open source. Office programs can be either installed on your PC or run in the Cloud from your browser.
Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Office & Microsoft 365 Subscription Service. Which include: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook & Access
Microsoft Office Home and Student one time purchase. - $249.00 -
Microsoft Office and Office 365 are Paid Programs. However, Word, Excel and Powerpoint can be used On-Line for free in your Microsoft Account - One Drive -
Microsoft Office 2024 LTSC Overview
- Apple's Office Suite include Pages for Word Processing, Numbers for Spreadsheets & Keynote for presentations; all available for free on Apple Devices.
- Libre Office or Apache Open Office. Which include: Writer for Word Processing, Calc for Spreadsheets, Draw for Vector Graphics, Base for Data Base Management and Math (formula editor). Open source and free to download and use.
- OnlyOffice - A new Office suite that includes documents, spreadsheets, presentations and a PDF editor.
- Microsoft One Drive - Word, Excel & Powerpoint
- Google Drive has many applications including Docs (word processing), Sheets (spreadsheets), Slides (presentations).
Office How To Guide
EMAIL can be accessed in two ways: Web-Mail by using your browser OR using an Email Program installed on your PC.
EMAIL Programs: Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail - Just to name three, there are many others.
There are Three different versions of Outlook: Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows Outlook & Outlook.com
Windows 11 come with Windows Outlook preinstalled. Linux Mint comes with Thunderbird and Apple comes with Apple Mail preinstalled.
Your Internet Service Provided will give you a free email address, but I strongly recommend you do not use this. If you change ISP you will have to change your email address.
I recommend setting up a Free Gmail Address or a Free Microsoft (outlook) Address.
- This page last updated on 11 June 2026