[REQUEST] Which Office Software do you use?

[Your PCMD]

@Barcelona gave me an idea with his Browser poll, so then:

Which Office Software do you personally use &/or recommend to clients? Would be nice to know as to why you use what you use as well.

 

[GTP]

I recommend MS Office to clients, especially business clients, (they want Outlook) but I make sure they are well informed about Libreoffice and it's pro's / con's.
It's their decision after that.
Sometimes I install LibreOffice first so they can see what its all about. For email I suggest Thunderbird or outlook.com
Surprisingly, only a very small number go with MS options afterwards.
I'm very careful not to mention Gmail.

 

[Umbra]

MS Office, because whatever is said, it is the most convenient in term of usability and some features are really great. not saying, most companies use it...

 

[NJW]

LibreOffice (since it was Star Office, then OpenOffice.org). Being all-Linux, I have a cast-iron reason for not considering MS Office – don't bother pointing me to Wine or CrossOver.

I also suggest it to clients and I can't think of any that has tried it and not continued with it. For those who can't justify the expense of a modern version of MS Office, it's an easy choice; for those who could easily afford MS Office, they report a 'nicer experience'. These are generally residential users who are unlikely to need any of the edge features that MSO includes, though that qualification probably applies to the majority of business users, too.

not saying, most companies use it.

'Widely used' != 'best choice' ...

 

[Kitten Kong]

Our personal use, and my bus use its MS Office all the way.

I have 2-3 clients who use O365, some older clients who use Office of varying versions (not supplied by me).

For my clients, I install Libre for them. As for the most, they do not want or cannot afford the additional annual subs for O365 yet alone pay £150+ for Office.

For emails, I install EM client for them.

 

[Diggs]

I use and install LibreOffice on all my computers and the refurbished computers that go out of my shop. The learning curve is steep but short for those coming from MS Office. But, LibreOffice will open just about every document file format any user is ever going to come across and edit them all. Saves many phone calls on "why can't I open this email attachment Uncle Gustaf sent me?".

I'm surprised that WPS is getting no votes. It is a free drop-in alternative for MS Office. It looks and acts identical to older versions of MS Office. (I won't use it as it is a Chinese knock-off of MS Office. Nothing against China at all but the creators of WPS need to quit stealing intellectual property.)

For so many users today an office suite isn't even understood (What's that got to do with Facebook?) much less pay $150 for it.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

We only support business clients, and most line of business software integrates with MS Office. We're here to make money, so we sell a lot of Office via volume licensing, and Office 365 via CSP.

 

[Markverhyden]

99% of my customers are business. So, as much as I dislike recent versions of Office, that's what they get. To be honest, Office '97 had all of the features that the majority of small business users need. And it was far simpler and more reliable.

Personally I actually Text Edit (OS X), Notepad (M$) and gedit(linux) for creating documents.

 

[nlinecomputers]

I use and resell only Office 365. It is a Microsoft world and it's also a subscription world. Deal with it.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

MS Office for compatibility and it comes with Action Pack.

 

[cypress]

MS Office.

 

[TechPJC]

Microsoft Office

 

[mikeroq]

I have Office 365 personally which I'm using on my computers.

Office 2016 at work/home.

We sell our clients the latest version of Office. I have many on older versions still mostly 2010/2013 (older computers). We put OpenOffice (thinking of going to LibreOffice) on computers we sell. So for home users they use that or some want Office and we sell them office.

Businesses - Office all the way.

 

[Your PCMD]

We put OpenOffice (thinking of going to LibreOffice)

This would be a wise choice as OpenOffice seems to be no longer supported/updated.

 

[Sky-Knight]

At this point all stations with a professional user at them, get MS Office via 365. If the station is something like a cash register, or other support utility machine multiple users use, and they don't need office applications I put Libre Office on there just in case. Any home user that's missing their office and doesn't want to buy office, gets libre. No station leaves my care without some sort of office suite on it.

And I use Ninite to install it, because I'm lazy.

 

[DRPCNZ]

Office 2013 on my computers any purchases for residential clients who want Outlook Office 2016 otherwise Libreoffice, Business clients I let them choose between Office 365 and Office 2016

 

[frase]

MS Office 2016/365 for clients who need a dedicated business use email client/calendar etc, Good upsell as well.

 

[Umbra]

Some of you may be interested:

https://www.cso.com.au/article/6293...k-users-get-more-security-no-ads-50-gb-inbox/

 

[MDD1963]

Mix of Office 2010/2013 at work, LibreOffice at home....

 

[overburnz]

MS Office at home, wife needs it for work (she doesn't like libreoffice or openoffice) but at work we use libreoffice because it's more than enough for our needs email client thunderbird (not gonna pay an extra 150€ just for that....)