It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.
While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It’s super easy:
- Download and install Office
- run
irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iexin Powershell and follow the instructions - Profit!
What doesn’t she like about LibreOffice, out of curiosity? It’s easy to make the layout like Office (View > User Interface > Tabbed) if that’s her problem - I felt the exact same way, but the second I found out I could do that, I never went back.
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Man everyone I work with uses PDF and I have to do some janky shit to fill it out and sign it. Not that I would want docx either…
Done this a while ago for my brother who needed Office for work but isn’t as tech minded as I am. It’s honestly a fantastic tool, kudos to the creator!
What’s this do? Been linux only for like 12 years and don’t keep up with office
Massgrave is a tool that can create legit (oem) keys for windows and office out of thin air*
- it’s not literally creating them from nothing, it’s using a system Ms themselves run to get working keys. Evidently they don’t have a huge problem with it.
Turns out the powershell step is enough to get 97% of users to shell out cash.
And also, the biggest source of revenue is institutions who either will pay for the enterprise license, or can be sued for a good payday if they try to pirate.
I don’t even understand why, it literally easier to crack, no need for an account
It literally easier to crack
It is not easier for almost every human on the planet.
Download office from massgrave.dev and activate with the power shell activator. Permanent activation as easy as it gets.
massgrave.dev
This appears to have worked flawlessly
There was an article that caught Microsoft’s own IT support use this script to activate a customer’s computer so I guess Microsoft approves of it.
Edit: sauce
yea can barely call it ‘effort’ more like accidentally tripped, pressed enter and now office 365 is installed ;D
You could tell your mom the real price of MS office. She might suddenly stand LibreOffice just fine.
i’m always amused by the reaction of my friends when i tell them that office costs $10 per month. They are all always “whaaaaat?? This POS is this expensive??”
Screw word. I’m studying Software Development, but I have to write all these management reports for various classes. I’m just writing them in LaTeX now, so it feels like I’m coding while I’m writing a paper. Implement some new fancy features every time that I than have to debug like I do with code.
Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn’t even notice.
Hosting pirate scripts for a Microsoft product on another Microsoft owned website is… interesting.
There are even reported cases where Microsoft support used that tool to activate Windows Licenses when there are problems with the License of a customer.
Is there any tool like this for macOS?
You can change libreoffice to have the ribbon and act more like ms office.
Go on
View -> User Interface, change to Tabbed or Tabbed Compact (or Notebookbar in old versions).
Refer to Google and YouTube.
OnlyOffice Desktop Editors…
Simpler interface but lacking more advanced features of MS Office or Libre. It has the features 90% of users actually use though.
Nearly perfect DOCX formatting compatibility. The only thing I have ever noticed when collaborating with Word users is the bullet symbols on list items may be different on my end.
Agreed. I really tried to like Libre/OpenOffice over the years but it never felt right. OnlyOffice really hits the spot for me.
I don’t use Windows much any more but I was happy with the discounted student version of Office 2016, afaik the last perpetual license.
Onlyoffice sucks very bad with macros in my experience, lacks some advanced functions, and infuriatingly doesn’t seem to have options search, but other than that it’s fantastic, very intuitive, ergonomic and sleek option.
My own daily driver.
If I’m doing anything substantial, calculation-wise, I use openpyxl.
Interesting!
You might also find the Python library pandas useful. Its “DataFrames” can mirror your excel data 1:1 and you have convenience methods like to_excel(). Easy to combine with numpy for performant matrix math.
XLSX just becomes a container for storing/sharing your data, and while Python is used for analysis. I would use matplotlib for plotting rather than embedding in the sheet.
Glad to see someone mention OO. I was going to, and saw your comment. I will always be down for LibreOffice, but OnlyOffice might be the “best” option for lots of people that are easily intimidated with change (or more specifically how something looks different). Even if it is lacking on some features, it just matters how the person it is recommended to uses MS Office. Being fair using MS Office or any of the similar suites is overkill for what they do. If smaller programs like Wordpad (RIP) or opensource Rich Text Format editors could handle so many general purpose documents.
u can download OFFICE official ISO fom microsoft directly and use MASS to activate just take like 5 mins downloading, installing and activating.
and you can be sure that it’s clean
MASS?
Download the official version and activate with MAS
Neat. I didn’t know any services like this existed.
Should I be wary of using this while logged in to my Microsoft account?
As long as it’s for personal use I don’t think Microsoft gives a shit (beyond what is legally necessary)
They care more that you’re using their software and it stays the default productivity suite for workplaces
I don‘t think so. I‘m logged in with a regular account and don‘t have any trouble.
MAS?
Easy peasy…
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It’s really easy to do actually.
I’ve had success using a cracked Office 2013 installation. The older ones don’t have as sophisticated anti piracy measures and don’t unactivate themselves as often.
I eventually got my dad to use Libre office. There are several different ui layouts and one of the is really similar to ms office.
At this point I think it’s more beneficial for you to move to using LibreOffice. It’s a better to spend your time getting used to that, instead of trying to obtain MS Office.
I’m not saying that LibreOffice is as good, but it’s good enough.
Out of curiosity: what she doesn’t like?
I bought my license for like 4 or 5 usd after a life of sailing and using libreoffice, not on ebay but on one of those praised website that sells key for games and suchi don’t want to start a war but sorry, office is the defacto when it comes to office work and libreoffice still have many problems with formatting and editing existing .docx files (things seem better when it comes to .xlsx and .pptx) not to mention that your documents might not look similar on both due to missing proprietary fonts.
its a good software in itself its just that its compatibility with office is a little dodgy
It’s because it’s not the native format. How does MS Office show/edit ODT documents? Does it work better?
Idk i have never worked with a complicated odt document Although, I would expect some problems because of fonts
Come to think of it. I tried that a couple months ago and The results weren’t so great.( I told word to specifically save my docx document in ODT format)
I don’t understand why ODT is complicated. It’s a zipfile with inspectible data. The standard document is also not as vendor-specific as MS OOXML which is thousands of pages that everybody gave up upon.
I think they meant complicated in the sense of having a complex document with formatting and so on (like a scientific paper)
Not that the file format itself is complex.
I meant the document (with a lot of pictures, tables, graphs, using a lot of different fonts, etc.) Not the file format.
I still don’t really know what you mean. How a document looks like depends on you. I’ve got very many fonts available, much more than average Microsoft Office user has. And it’s easier to use LibreOffice from my point of view, because it emphasizes structure. It looks much cleaner by default than MS Word. The only thing MS Word is better in is typesetting. LibreOffice simply fails to place letters properly.
Documents produced by office suites are not really good for publications. They are very annoying to handle, no matter if it’s MS Office or Libre. The cheapest option to have something professional is LaTeX.
I’d argue that no one gives a shit what the docx looks like as long as it looks good as a PDF or presentation slide.
And for that I use whatever is at hand, which mostly consists of Gsuite shit at work. Sometimes O365 for school (because NA is stupid) or work. At home it’s
Librestill Gsuite…
