Maybe you’re not interested in alternatives to Word and Excel, but bear in mind that these alternatives handle Microsoft file formats very well—not perfectly, but well enough in most cases.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.

How to Check Repeating Words in Excel. Microsoft Excel 2010 can handle large spreadsheets that contain hundreds of differently formatted cells. If you attempt to search for repeating words in a ...