Is it time to dump Microsoft Office?

TechLady said:
Correct. I only install LibreOffice for residential now. There's absolutely NO need for MS in residential. None. Grandmas don't need mail merge.
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Me too. If they a legal copy I will charge them to reinstall it. If not and are willing/demanding I will sell it to them.(rare)
 
Larry Sabo said:
I'm not happy with OO or LO spawning multiple instances so that none of them open, and having to kill each process until the GUI suddenly appears. Still looking for a solution to this, other than log off and on.
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In all the years I've been installing/using OO & LO Iv'e never experienced this?
 
I could live w/o Microsoft Office with just one exception....Excel!!! Open Office and all it's variants are fine for word processing and the likes, but I really need the full power of M$ excel. Every time I've considered abandoning it, I've hit a wall of some mathematical function that the free option software is missing.
 
Larry Sabo said:
I just tried Ashampoo Office as suggested by @sapphirescales and it works fine so far. Have you tried it for spreadsheets, Jared (@DataMedics)?
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I tried Ashampoo years ago, but maybe should re-visit it. I just know that I've always found certain less common mathematical functions to be missing in the free options. I know most people might not need things like binary xor calculations, but I actually do use some of these advanced functions.

Plus, I like that I can create a full spreadsheet and then share only a portion of that sheet embedded into a webpage. I've never found a way to do that with anything but real M$.
 
Nope. Still no good. Tried opening one of my excel sheets I use for calculating RAID 50 XOR and it seems to be lacking the BITXOR function. Window to the left is Excel, window to the right is Ashampoo PlanMaker:

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All the formulas are null.

I will admit though, it now looks 10x better than open office does. It's probably fool the average user to think it's actually Excel.
 
Larry Sabo said:
Here is a description of the phenomenon; it's still an issue today with no easy solution (other than switching app).
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Interesting, but that's just OO.
I'll admit that I haven't used OO for a few years now. I ditched it in favour of LO.
Libreoffice has been a rock solid performer. Never had a complaint about it yet.
Although my clients are obviously not using functions like @DataMedics outlined above! :)
 
There is nothing else "to sell."
I always give clients the choice between an "overpriced, bloated, forced to create an account with Microsoft so that they can watch everything you do" copy of MS Office or a "totally free and fully supported" Office program like LibreOffice.
You'd be surprised how many stick with MS.
If LibreOffice had it's own inbuilt email client it would be a better program, but when partnered up with Thunderbird (or one of the many other great alternatives to Outlook) it's just as good as MS and totally free.

But it's all about "the cloud" these days. Business people want the features that only MS can provide.
 
Barcelona said:
There is nothing else "to sell."
I always give clients the choice between an "overpriced, bloated, forced to create an account with Microsoft so that they can watch everything you do" copy of MS Office or a "totally free and fully supported" Office program like LibreOffice.
You'd be surprised how many stick with MS.
If LibreOffice had it's own inbuilt email client it would be a better program, but when partnered up with Thunderbird (or one of the many other great alternatives to Outlook) it's just as good as MS and totally free.

But it's all about "the cloud" these days. Business people want the features that only MS can provide.
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It's not just business people. People like familiarity, and Office is a nice software suite. I've tried many other Office alternatives, but I haven't been impressed with any of them. There's just nothing quite like Microsoft Office. It's sort of like the Chinese counterfeit iPhone vs. the original. The whole time you're using the counterfeit, it just SCREAMS "I'm a garbage knockoff product trying to act like the original."
 
DataMedics said:
Nope. Still no good. Tried opening one of my excel sheets I use for calculating RAID 50 XOR and it seems to be lacking the BITXOR function. Window to the left is Excel, window to the right is Ashampoo PlanMaker:
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If you are doing this for paid RAID recovery, why don't you just buy the damn real Excel and be done with it? If the price bothers you, you can pass it on to the customer.
 
I'd personally probably use LibreOffice... but I *hate* calc... it feels like a round peg in a square hole vs Excel. And I live in Excel, so I pay for the office suite largely for Excel and Outlook.
 
I have Outlook 2013 and could not imagine a worse spell checker, it's so bad you could not make it worse if you tried.
as opposed to Grammarly or Google and many others.
 
A city in Germany (Munich) tried to go Linux and ditch M$ it was a failed experiment they are on Win 10 and office now. Pity I would like them to have succeeded and get out of the yoke.
 
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