[docmars]

I'm curious why people bother tolerating modern versions of MS Office when they could instead use an offline version like 2019 and call it a day?

Are the more recent versions really that necessary or useful for features? I miss using 2007 when the ribbon was introduced and the UI finally felt organized.

[mlyle]

Using something with support (e.g. vulnerabilities being fixed) is important. 2019 is about to stop getting fixes.

[mshroyer]

This is my main reason. Additionally, yes, some of the Excel features that would attract me to it over LibreOffice Calc—such as the aforementioned lambdas—aren't available in older, non-365 versions of Office.

[kapad]

> I'm curious why people bother tolerating modern versions of MS Office when they could instead use an offline version like 2019 and call it a day?

I use the online version because it worked out cheaper than the offline version + Dropbox.