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Software Link Library recommends LibreOffice as the best free office suite.

LibreOffice is a free, powerful office suite. It's open-source, and it's known as a successor to OpenOffice, which is another free, open-source office suite. LibreOffice is compatible with many file types and documents, including Microsoft 365 documents/files and Google Drive documents/files. It's also the office suite bundled with most Linux distributions.

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Here are some of the most popular office suites, and their download links.

1. Microsoft 365 ($) (Formerly Microsoft Office)
   Microsoft 365 is a widely-used office suite which requires a license to use locally (by installing the suite on your computer) but some of the main features are free to use in the cloud on office.com, such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
2. Google Drive
   Google Drive is a free office suite in the cloud, including many different types of programs. You can create documents in Google Docs, slideshows in Google Slides, spreadsheets in Google Sheets, forms in Google Forms, etc. Every Google user gets 15GB of free storage both for files created through Google programs, and uploaded files.
3. LibreOffice
   LibreOffice is an open-source, free office suite. LibreOffice comes pre-installed on many distributions of the Linux operating system.
4. WPS Office
   WPS Office is a simple, free office suite. It contains just 4 modules. Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and PDF. It's compatible with 51 file types, it includes cloud storage, features a lightweight installation, and has thousands of templates.
5. OpenOffice
   OpenOffice is a free open-source office suite. It's similar to LibreOffice, and has many help subjects on their website.