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Need to make some business forms for billing. Something with line and columns for items and costs. I see a number of free software to make templates but I don't know how safe they are. Lost the forms I had in my latest computer debacle so need to make more. Any recommendations?

Google spreadsheets

LIke Krom said, Google Docs or any spreadsheet software is all you need. If using the SUM functions in a spreadsheet are too much work, you can just use any word processing program to draw a 2 or three column table and do the math manually.

like I said, I can find all sorts of software my bigger concern was "I see a number of free software to make templates but I don't know how safe they are

Google docs is a thing you get on the internet from your google/gmail account for free. It isn't even installed on your computer and is totally safe.

Thanks for the good advice, appreciate it

woodchip wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:21 pm... I don't know how safe they are...

Depends on what you mean by safety, but the best place to start is the open source community. A good place to find software is AlternativeTo. None of the free alternatives are vetted by security professionals, but it's a community ranked site so assuming the site owners haven't sold out, the choices are usually pretty good. For instance, all the top picks for spreadsheets are super common and safe:

https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-excel/