edit: I realize there is Office web and it’s good but it has nowhere enough features. Also, do you guys think (Open, Libre, Only) office has as many features as Microsoft Excel?
I am taking business studies this year and you really do need excel for that. I can obviously use OnlyOffice Suite which is quite good and will get most of the jobs done, but it’s not equivalent to MS Office suite and in business you use what’s used most frequently, so yes, MS Office it is. But as much as I realize what a key role Microsoft plays in the Business, I DO NOT WANT TO PAY for it and I certainly DO NOT want to pay a subscription for it, but I want to learn it and the best way to learn is by doing it, so, I want to install MS Office Suite on Linux without actually paying for it, so how can I do it?
Skip this rant: Every freaking thing is a subscription right now, I mean, there’s positives to that, but you feel like you own nothing. Don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist or anything, but it feels like every company took “You will own nothing and be happy” to heart. Again, subscription model has it’s advantages, but I don’t want to subscribe to something I know I am going to need for the foreseeable future.
When I was in college, libreoffice calc was a good enough Excel alternative to get me through finance, accounting, statistics and business science. I graduated in 2020 to give you some perspective. Worst case you run a pirated Windows VM with pirated Office. Also, shame on all the downvoting fucks who probably are too privileged to have any business being on this community
One option is to see if you have the ability to purchase Office 2019 or 2021 for home use through school or an employer. I’ve been able to purchase both versions for US$20. It’s cheap and legal. Now, installing it under Linux is another conversation altogether.
If you are a student with certain schools you can get it for free. I’m doing a part time course at a UK university and they gave it for free, I just had to register using my university email address. I’ve not taken it up as want to avoid it in favour of libreoffice but will use for coursework on a VM if I really need to.
Guess they try to suck people in so they pay in the future
I think you can somehow activate it with the activation script. link
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I really can’t think of anything that excel can do that libre can’t in a business setting. Libre office has a lot of functionality. I haven’t touched Ms office in two years now.
vba macros on excel is not good on Libreoffice
I like almost everything in Libre Suite except for the God awful Libre Calc
Indeed they are not. LibreOffice docs claim VBA support is “mostly complete”. Apparently that’s a relative term because in my experience, VBA macros in Calc barely work at all.
I really can’t think of anything that excel can do that libre can’t in a business setting. Libre office has a lot of functionality. I haven’t touched Ms office in two years now.
it’s more about cross compatibility for me and there are many things I think. It lacks many of the advanced features that Excel has. But still, even if it did have it, I have to collaborate and I just can’t take chances of in compatibility (one of the reasons I am edit:not even going to use OnlyOffice which has greater compatibility. )
LibreOffice Calc is great but in the spreadsheet world, Excel is still the gold standard. One of the reasons I’m still paying for a Office 365 subscription. That and a handful of custom integrations I have with Exchange that I don’t currently have time to find alternatives for.
I see. That does seem troubling. I have a login with access to excel. If you’d like I can dm you he login info.
Why not use the LTSC releases, they’re crackable 🤷.
I’ve consistenly made an Office 2016 bottle that works. I haven’t been able to activate it though.
The guide is in Spanish but it’s just importing the bottle and changing the language. Others have left ISOs available in other languages in the comments.
https://elsotanoenlared.es/office-2016-32-bits-en-linux-con-bottles/
Hope it helps!
