Claude Code Ran 7 Free Microsoft Office Alternatives (No Licence) | Artcraft

Free Microsoft Office alternatives, run by Claude Code: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF work with no Office licence, set up step by step on a Mac, plus the two silent failures you need to check for.

📘 Free guide with every prompt from this video: https://qualixar.com/learn/guides/claude-code-7-free-office-alternatives

🛠️ One-command installer (Claude Code + Claude Desktop): https://github.com/qualixar/craft-studio-setup

▶️ Part 1, the six free Adobe alternatives: https://youtu.be/-VPYXcrsEs0

I asked Claude Code to make a real client packet for a small design studio: a proposal, an invoice that calculates, a pitch deck, a stamped PDF, a flyer, an app screen and a floor plan. It used seven free, open-source apps from Storytold (github.com/storytold), connected over MCP. The whole packet came from one prompt in about four minutes.

The two things that broke silently, and the one habit that catches both, are in the video.

Install everything with one line (macOS):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qualixar/craft-studio-setup/v0.3.0/install.sh | bash -s -- all

Only the Microsoft-style apps: ... | bash -s -- microsoft

Only the Adobe-style apps: ... | bash -s -- adobe

Chapters

0:00 Cold open

0:50 Part 1, in 40 seconds

1:32 Where the apps come from

2:15 Install the apps

3:38 Connect them to Claude Code

4:50 Word → WordCraft

6:22 Excel → GridCraft

8:00 Big spreadsheets

8:56 PowerPoint → DeckCraft

9:45 Acrobat → PdfCraft

10:36 A flyer, an app screen, a floor plan

12:16 The whole packet, one prompt

13:14 The habit

The seven apps (all free, all open source, made by Storytold):

WordCraft (Word) · GridCraft (Excel) · DeckCraft (PowerPoint) · PdfCraft (Acrobat) · DesignCraft (InDesign/Publisher) · FigCraft (Figma) · CADCraft (AutoCAD)

These apps are early. The video shows what works today and what doesn't.

More AI reliability research: https://qualixar.com

Microsoft, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, Acrobat, InDesign, Figma and AutoCAD are trademarks of their owners. This video is independent and not sponsored.

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