MS Excel and word

How did you buy office? Was there a code for a subscription that came with your new laptop??

If so you should be able to retrieve it on Microsoft when you sign up for it.

Just use Google Docs and Sheets for free.

I use OpenOffice (on a Win 7 machine - even now, still more reliable than my Win10) so would opt for LibreOffice if I wanted a fresh install. But I don't need to - my ancient version of OpenOffice is more than capable of working with MS Word and Excel files that are shared with me by people paying a 2025 subscription. Right now I have half a dozen files open in Open Office as I prepare a presentation/proposition for three different audiences in two languages. Two will be exported as PDFs, three will be sent off as .ods files in case the other parties want to re-use them at their end. The last is a spreadsheet for my own ends.

I sometimes use the Google suite, but mostly it's a pain in the hole because I type fast and the upload-download lag drives me up the wall. And it's Google. And it's of no use if I don't have a stable internet connection (yeah, I know you can make documents available for offline editing, but that's a whole other headache … ) Mostly, I use Docs or Sheets only if I need to share the file with other people in real time.