Microsoft Office is very popular office tool which is used more than office tool. It is used like an application development environment, graphic creation app, report generator etc. Buy as we know there is a price to use Microsoft Office suit. But hopefully opensource community provides alternative to this crucial tool named Libreoffice.

In the old times there was open source tool named OpenOffice. But there some problems between comunity and developers. This project is forked and new free opensource office suite named LibreOffice is created. In this tutorial we will look how to install LibreOffice in Windows operating system.

Download

Libreoffice can be downloaded in various ways like torrent, proxies etc. but in order to simply download it click following link.

http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/5.2.6/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.2.6_Win_x86.msi

Run

Setup Type

In this step we will select the setup type. According to setup type the installation of the components will be changed.

• Typical installation will install most used components like Word , Excel , Powerpoint
• Custom installation will install according to our component selection where selection will be made next step.

Start Installation

Before starting installation we can set to create a desktop link and load LibreOffice on system start-up. If we enable system start-up for LibreOffice creating Word, Powerpoint or similar documents will be faster.

Installation

And now the installation starts. The installation can take time according to disk speed and cpu of our hardware.