Just swap to Libre. And if your job is working on spreadsheets just quit. Lets all go back to farming and trading goods. Or just install Linux.
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On a Mac Apple‘s Office suite is the better choice.
That is certainly a very lemmy thing to say
That was so szmer thing to answer
Same for Linux and office365
Word 365 on Linux is literally sabotaging you, at random deleting texts you previously wrote. Whole sets of words just randomly disappear as if you never typed them. You type them, they're there, you continue typing and 1-2 paragraphs later, part of the text you wrote is suddenly gone. No undo available or anything, it's as if it never happened.
It got to the point heere i wrote documents in Google drive, then exported then and imported them in word 365, that did work
Then I found out that all I had to do is send M$ servers a user agent header saying it's Windows 11 And suddenly everything works
Ah, that was it then? I'm currently forced to use this crap. I had to run office from a virtual machine because office 365 was terribly unreliable. Like, it started fucking up highlights and shits.
In any case, word sucks even if it does not actively try to suck. I have a big list of complaints. If ms has to resort to this tactics, they are actually suffering us.
Can someone else affirm this? Have you recorded it? If this is real it'd be great to have evidence.
Fuuucking christ.
If i have to office i still use my physical 2007 disks.
I switched to OpenOffice.org(now LibreOffice) when Microsoft replaced menus with ribbons.
And I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo after being a Google user from nearly the very beginning, because they tried to claim earlier this week that they couldn't prove I was over 18 years old unless I provided them my legal identification.
Thanks Google, I can't imagine how the fact that I've physically been using your product and logging into the account for more than 20 years would leave any question in your mind that I'm over 18 years old, but you do you.
No regrets with LibreOffice. None.
I bitched and moaned when office 2007 came out. Stupid ribbons. Still hate that shit. Only thing MS office has going for it, that I haven't found elsewhere, is collaboration and Danish grammar check. I haven't found proper grammar check in my native Danish yet, outside of ms office that is. But if my job decided to ditch its pricey office subscriptions, I'd be cheeringly installing libreoffice.
I do hope I get a chance to retrieve all my emails when I get shut out for raising an arthritic middle finger and telling Google to go fuck themselves when asked for ID. I got my gmail account when people still paid for invites. How can I be underage? I wasn't even underage then.
I do hope I get a chance to retrieve all my emails when I get shut out for raising an arthritic middle finger and telling Google to go fuck themselves when asked for ID.
Just going to remind you, because I appreciated when someone reminded me: The best time to run a 'Google ~~Checkout~~ Takeout' to get a backup is now.
Edit: Thanks.
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My digital life has gotten noticeably better since switching to Linux and other FOSS
Working is better and sorpressively, gaming is better as well... also, i may have saved my GPU because of switching to linux for gaming.
Libreoffice. I tried it long ago and it was bad, but that is no longer the case. Give it a chance
"But the interface looks slightly different and I'm scared of being in charge of things"
Whats really funny is that the interface is closer to MS Office 2003 which was Office pre "ribbon" interface. So the current version of MS office is actually the weird one that changed.
Yeah I remember when they introduced the ribbon and I hated it. Now I prefer it
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I don't think it was ever bad, the compatibility with Microsoft office is not completely their yet making it not usable to Excel experts of for some teachers due to docx support being a bit lackluster
It is worth pointing out that the only reason docx support is lackluster is because of active efforts from MS to undermine third party support. It is a interesting story actually, but I don't recall exactly, but it goes like this, there was some regulatory push to open formats and MS undermined this by creating and making the docx (and all other *x family) open but make it so convoluted and unnecessarily difficult. If I am not mistaken they even keep unnecessarily updating and changing it so third party is always lagging behind in support and the cherry on top that MS don't correctly implement its own format on purpose so the files are effectively broken for anyone that follows the spec to a T.
I remember reading about how LibreOffice was better at recovering broken Excel files than Excel itself. It was a long time ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if that still were the case at all.
That might be the case, but in most cases you will be unable your work due to limitations in Libreoffice.
Look I like it and I use it, but I have major issues with the sheets missing functions and the Word just being incompatible. Like not being able to put the figure number below images or not being able to keep track of changes made when enabled.
I think Excel has more functionality than any of the FOSS alternatives, unfortunately. It's some pretty powerful software.
But I've also run into cases where LibreOffice could do things Excel couldn't at the time.
Like enter strings that are longer than 255 characters into a cell.
Yeah a lot more, 90% won't miss any of though.
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Yay, that'll be a fun day at work... I'm in charge of administering our fleet of Macs and all the users use MS Office heavily. We are currently not allowed to provide access to Office 365 for data protection reasons, so if they brick the volume license we are currently using I won't have a viable solution for them, beyond switching to OWA/Apple Mail and some other office suite.
The writing's been on the wall for a while though. They recently made it so that you can't hide the Office 365 nag screen while using a volume license, which confuses users into thinking they don't have a license. I fucking hate Microslop.
Edit: As far as I can tell this will only affect users using a 2019 volume license (which is already not compatible with current versions), but the 2021 license will continue to work? (Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/update-microsoft-365-or-office-on-your-macos-or-ios-device-f418ae5d-bb5f-4078-b3d9-9340f5dd084e ). I'd definitely be interested if anyone has more information. In any case, I'm sure it's just a matter of time until they fuck everyone not using a subscription based license for any of their products.
Edit 2: Nevermind. 13th October is the day Microslop has chosen to fuck me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021
Edit 2: Nevermind. 13th October is the day Microslop has chosen to fuck me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021
You'll still get a few years before the software becomes remotely disabled, though. This story about Office 2019 losing functionality follows Office 2019 losing support in 2023. If that's the rate things go, then maybe Office 2021 will lose functionality either 2 years from now (7 years after release) or 3 years from now (3 years after losing support).
True, but running EOL software that doesn't receive updates to known vulnerabilities isn't really an option.
Yeah, but that's always been true of paid software licenses for a particular version: it reaches EOL and you have to decide whether to live with the possibility of unpatched known vulnerabilities or pay for an upgrade to a more recent release.
MS Office has been doing this from back in the Windows 3.0 days at least.
True. But Office for Mac uses the same installer for 365, 2021 and 2024 (and 2019 until they EOL'd it). It's not that they stop updating old software. They just arbitrarily decide you no longer get the updates if you're on an older license.
Just wait. Mac users usually have more money than they need, so they can easily afford lawyers to beat into MicroSlop.
That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. People bought a license to use a product, with the reasonable expectation that said license would be both perpetual and unchanging.
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Honestly just use LibreOffice. It's pretty good.
"But it doesn't have that one function that predicts the circumference of an ant's hind segment based on the diameter of breadcrumbs it carries! I use that every day for vital work!"
I'm trying to befriend the filter options in libreoffice calc but it really can't compare with the create table from selection and built in filters and sorting that excel offers.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/guide/autofilter.html
That and also that I haven't found any good f-droid apk to open the librecalc on my tablet.
All I want to use my tablet for is to change key values in brewing recipes and have them recalculate for the new volume, I prepare my brewing recipes on my computer in librecalc but now I'm stuck with multiple static pdf prints for different common volumes instead of using the real recipe book on the tablet.
I keep at it though, my private computer is Microsoft free and will stay that way. Some friction is lessening from getting used to libreoffice calc but some functions just can't compare, the amazing tables of excel being the one I miss often.
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