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Fudge Nuggets

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If there is already a thread about Office subscriptions and viable alternatives please merge this with the existing thread.

Otherwise, I'm fucking done with these leeches.  It's bad enough they lock you into a recurring subscription that for all intensive porpoises you can't do without unless you are up on the tech stuff (I am not).  Now they have jacked up the price 30% with the justification that it's for the added benefits of having Copilot butt into every damn thing you work on.

I don't want / need Copilot for the rudimentary crap I do on my home PC.  I use it at work a little bit, but have not once wished I had access to it at home.  I've looked around and read a little bit about LibreOffice.  Seems it has a decent enough following in the Linux community so was wondering if anyone here uses it. 

Is it worth a shit?  Will I be able to still open all my existing shit?  Will I be able to make new shit, send it to someone with regular Microsoft Office and they can open it?  Or am I and the rest of humanity just fucked over by the bloodsuckers in Redmond?

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6 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Is it worth a shit?  Will I be able to still open all my existing shit?  Will I be able to make new shit, send it to someone with regular Microsoft Office and they can open it?  Or am I and the rest of humanity just fucked over by the bloodsuckers in Redmond?

1. It's worth what you paid for it.

2. Yes, it'll even open older Office formats that even Office struggles to do

3. Yes

4. Nope, StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice was designed just for the purpose of preventing this.

It's not great software but then... neither is MS Office.

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1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:

If microsoft is the answer, the question was fucking stupid.

 

I use Libre Office on my non-apple machines. It’s fine for the basic shit I do with it.

 

I use it all the time on everything.  It's solid for functionality.  There are some small differences between the latest docx and the default odt format, but if your docs aren't highly formatted, it should work fine.  Mine are pretty highly formatted and it works pretty well, but, I send mostly PDFs of my files to clients because I don't want them editing in-document and creating versioning and metadata problems most of the time.

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1 hour ago, Orale said:

I recently let my Microsoft subscription expire and now use Google docs, sheets, etc... for my basic needs and they more than suffice so far. 

I am considering Google stuff but figure it's just a matter of time before they go full asshole as well.

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