Best Mac Gmail App For Office 365
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Microsoft's Office 365 and Office 2016 are both great products, offering up a full suite of tools that allow you to get more done on a daily basis. As an upside to Office 365, the subscription-based service, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage is also included. Nevertheless, cost is usually a deciding factor — a year of Office 365 Personal costs about $70 while Office Home & Student 2016 costs about $150 — which is why there are plenty of great alternatives for you to try.
Zoho Office
Zoho Office has everything personal users love about an office suite, and businesses can't get enough of their powerful enterprise tools. Writer, Sheet, and Show are feature-laden Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives with a familiar look, and enterprise tools like Projects and Books make it easy for businesses to keep track of customers, employees, and finances. Zoho even has its own cloud storage system synced up with your office documents, which has tools for administrators and analytics. There's likewise Zoho Mail rounding things out, as well as iOS and Android apps to keep you busy when you're away from your home or office.
The free version of Zoho comes with 5GB of cloud storage and is available for teams of up to 25 members. For 100GB of storage and for more team members, pricing switches to $4 per user, per month, then goes up to $6.40 per user, per month for 1TB of storage and some extra features designed for businesses. If you'd like to give it a shot without committing, there is a 15-day free trial available.
G Suite (Google Apps)
Google offers a very nice free online office suite that also packages offline support. Docs, Sheets, and Slides are competent Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives, but don't expect to find the same level of in-depth formatting that Microsoft Office offers. Everything you create in Google Apps is automatically saved to cloud storage anytime a change is made, and there is a far-reaching revision function that lets you go over each change and decide whether or not you want to keep it. You can also export and import files in all common file types.
With a Google account, you get 15GB of free storage in the cloud to hold your documents, and anyone with a Google account (and the right permissions) can share, view, and edit documents. There is likewise a paid alternative to the free Google Apps, known as G Suite. It's more business-oriented, offering up business email and thorough support, as well as more Google Drive storage space. The Basic subscription costs about $5 per user, per month and nets you 30GB, the Business subscription (about $10 per user, per month) adds a low-code app development environment, smart search, and unlimited cloud storage for teams of more than five users. Finally, the Enterprise option (about $25 per user, per month) adds further data loss prevention tools and analytics.
WPS Office
WPS Office has a few options to choose from, including free, premium, and professional versions that come with some different features. WPS Office Free gives you access to Writer, Presentation, and Spreadsheets, and 1GB of cloud storage let you quickly and easily share documents. To subsidize the service, you will see some ads once in a while.
WPS Office Premium costs about $30 for a year's subscription, but it lets you connect up to nine devices at once, there are no ads, you get access to a ton of templates, and the office tools come with extra features. You still get 1GB of cloud storage for sharing, and there's a PDF reader that can convert PDFs into Word filetypes.
Finally, WPS Office Premium — about $45 per year for one PC or $80 for lifetime access on one PC — adds further support for different languages as well as full support to help you get acquainted with the suite of tools.
Microsoft Office Online
If you're well acquainted with Microsoft's Office tools and would rather not change, you can always give Office Online a shot. It has free browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that can be used indefinitely as long as you have internet access.
You can move between the online version and full desktop-based Office at any time without losing work or formatting, and you do get most of the same core features in each app. Best part? It's completely free. If you're planning to work on a device with a screen smaller than 10.1 inches, you can likewise check out Microsoft Office Mobile for free.
SoftMaker Office
SoftMaker Office features Word, Excel, and PowerPoint alternatives — known here as TextMaker, PlanMaker, and Presentation — that use Microsoft Office file formats for easy transitions. Choose from ribbon or classic button UI in the Office apps, take advantage of support for multiple languages, and even handle email with integrated Thunderbird, one of our favorite email apps for Windows 10.
There is a 30-day trial version to help you decide whether or not SoftMaker Office is for you. After that, prices go from about $45 per year for five devices, or about $100 for a Professional version that only needs to be purchased once.
LibreOffice 6
When it comes to free office suites, LibreOffice is right up among the best. It includes the three core apps — Writer, Calc, and Impress — that replace Word's own Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and it also has Draw (diagrams), Base (database), and Math (formula editor) for added functionality.
LibreOffice works with a ton of file formats, including those associated with Microsoft Office, and there are over 350 extensions available for download to help make it feel more like your own set of tools. If you used to use OpenOffice, know that LibreOffice is the successor that's as good or better in just about every way.
Corel WordPerfect
Corel WordPerfect has come a long way, resulting in a powerful office suite with all the tools you'd expect. WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations, and WordPerfect Lightning are equivalents to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, plus there's eBook publisher and photo editing software.
It supports plenty of popular file types, there are thousands of clipart images, plenty of templates and fonts, and a built-in dictionary. This is just scratching the surface of features available in WordPerfect, making it well worth the price tag. A Home & Student edition starts at about $75 and doesn't include some of the extra features like ebook publishing, while a Standard edition with all features starts at about $250. If you'd like to give it a shot before buying, there is a 30-day free trial available.
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Updated August 21, 2018: We refreshed this list of Office alternatives to ensure you're still getting the best of the best if you'd like to go without Microsoft's suite.
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You joined a new school or got a new job. It was going great. The people were nice, the work was good, and then the bomb dropped. The organization runs on Microsoft’s backend, for which no one was able to give you a valid reason. Your first instinct is to run, run far away. Don’t.
Yes, you swore off on MS products right after Office 2007, but things have changed since then. MS has moved to “the cloud” strategy and (most) of their online products are pretty great to use. Including Office 365 Email, Calendar and even the Office 365 online productivity suite.
Instead of fighting it, let’s start embracing the Office 365 way of life.
It’s Simple, Just Download the Microsoft Outlook App
Yes, you can add your Office 365 account directly to Android via Settings (we’ll see how to do that below), but it’s not as easy as merely logging in. With the Outlook app, it is.
MS’ Outlook app was recently redesigned. It is feature rich and easy to use.
If you’re allowed to download apps on your Android phone, just download the app. When you first open the app, it will ask you which service you want to use – select Office 365 and log in with your work or school email and password.
And.. that’s it. You’re in. This one app will show you all your email, calendar events and contacts.
You can keep on using the Gmail app for your personal use and the Outlook app just for the school/work use.
Outlook has a couple of unique features like a “focused” inbox, swipe gestures, intelligent notifications, cloud file uploads, and more. We’ve written about the feature set in the iOS app before. The Android app is pretty similar.
To get to the Calendar in the Outlook app, tap the hamburger icon and select the Calendar tab. Outlook also has a basic Calendar widget.
Manually Add Office 365 Account to Android
If you’re running the latest version of Gmail app, you can add the Office 365 account in there, no need to download a whole other app. The problem is that this process is in no way simple.
You can add an account in two ways – from the Gmail app or from Android Settings. I’ll take the Settings route.
Go to Settings on your phone and select Accounts. Scroll down and tap Add Account. From the list, select Exchange.
You’ll now be asked to enter your email and password in the next two screens.
The screen after that is the problem. Here you’ll see stuff like ports and servers. Things you don’t understand, and shouldn’t need to understand. If you just hit Next, you’ll probably get an error but won’t know what exactly is the problem.
I had to go to my school’s IT guy to get him to type in the correct server address (which I’ve forgotten already). You might also need to do that.
But once you’re logged in, you’ll get some options to integrate the calendar, contacts and notifications. If you enable Calendar, all calendar invites and events will show up directly in Google Calendar app.
This way is a little long and complicated but if you just want to use Gmail and Google Calendar to access Office 365 accounts, it’s worth the trouble.
In the Gmail app, tap the Hamburger menu and tap on the active email address to switch to your secondary account. In the Calendar app you can decide which Calendars to show from the sidebar.
Alternative Calendar App: Sunrise
Best Mac Gmail App For Office 365 Email
Sunrise was recently acquired by Microsoft. Sunrise still remains one of the best calendar apps out there. It’s free, has a great UI, a butt load of integrations, one of the best Android calendar widgets and supports Office 365 natively.
Just open the app, add an account and log in with your Office 365 account. All your Calendar events will be right there.
The Future is Cross Cloud Platform
Don’t be surprised to be using a combination of multiple cloud services at your work/school in the future. Just keep an open mind and embrace the new.
I’m curious, just how many major cloud services are you using currently? Share with us in the comments below.
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