It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.

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    While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It’s super easy:

    1. Download and install Office
    2. run irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex in Powershell and follow the instructions
    3. 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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    8 months ago

    Download office from massgrave.dev and activate with the power shell activator. Permanent activation as easy as it gets.

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        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

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      yea can barely call it ‘effort’ more like accidentally tripped, pressed enter and now office 365 is installed ;D

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    You could tell your mom the real price of MS office. She might suddenly stand LibreOffice just fine.

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      8 months ago

      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??”

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        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.

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    Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn’t even notice.

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    @Reverendender

    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          If I’m doing anything substantial, calculation-wise, I use openpyxl.

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              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.

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      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.

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    u can download OFFICE official ISO fom microsoft directly and use MASS to activate just take like 5 mins downloading, installing and activating.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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 such

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    If you must have MS office, then I’d go with MAS/Massgrave like others have said.

    It’s well documented, requires minimal setup (if going default route), and is much less risky than going into the grey market for keys or downloading cracks elsewhere.