What Are the Downsides of Free Microsoft Office?
This version is ad-supported so you will get both banner ads and video ads popping up. You can also only save files to OneDrive, which is a pain if you use any other Cloud service. You do get 5GB of OneDrive storage though.
These are also pared-down versions of each of the tools so a lot of features are not available. For Microsoft Word, this includes line-spacing, WordArt, all of the design and draw tools and lots of formatting options, among them headers, footers, columns, line numbers, wrap text, shading and borders. There are also no options for adding references or mailing out your documents.
Excel has a ton of features missing including the analyze data option; recommended charts and most of the aesthetic options like Themes, Colors, Fonts, and Effects. PowerPoint has also been stripped back to basics with lots of the formatting options gone as well as Dictate, Add-ins, Designer, and SmartArt.
