[xaxaxb]

Use LibreOffice on Windows. Microsoft Office used to come bundled with Windows, as an office suite. Now it's a subscription product. This is a bad decision; shows how Microsoft can't keep it up together. Even if it had been one-time purchase with LTS updates and everything, just like it used to, one could possible think of buying it. But, $100/year for personal use?? What's so great about MS Office that LibreOffice can't do?? Get LibreOffice, even if you use Windows.

[TiredOfLife]

> Microsoft Office used to come bundled with Windows, as an office suite.

Never was. You probably got it installed by friendly it guy or the store was just installing pirated versions.

> Now it's a subscription product.

There is also pay once version. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...

> But, $100/year for personal use??

The subscription comes with 1TB of OneDrive storage. Look up how much 1TB of storage costs usually

> What's so great about MS Office that LibreOffice can't do??

Work with spreadsheets more complicated than two cells.

[Krssst]

> Work with spreadsheets more complicated than two cells.

I work with spreadsheets made of more than two cells with LibreOffice. The lack of dark patterns to trick me into cloud saving, ribbon with random buttons everywhere and animations makes everything feel much more comfortable to use.

Data linking a CSV in Excel opens a UI where it seems one can do many conversions and adjustments. It looks very powerful but it also makes it slow to link a CSV file. In LibreOffice it's less powerful but so much faster.

[lelanthran]

>> What's so great about MS Office that LibreOffice can't do??

> Work with spreadsheets more complicated than two cells.

I use both daily. You're misrepresenting what LibreOffice can do; 99% of the people I see using excel are using the exact same 20% of its capabilities.

Quick-n-Dirty database that they can update during sales meetings and create charts from. You think another spreadsheet can't do that?

[mananaysiempre]

>> But, $100/year for personal use??

> The subscription comes with 1TB of OneDrive storage. Look up how much 1TB of storage costs usually

Depends on what kind of storage you need, of course, but I can get a 16TB (decimal) 3.5" USB hard drive for $250 on Amazon.

[general1465]

Excel

[xaxaxb]

At consumer-level, I believe LibreCalc should be enough. But yes, if you're in an org doing Excel-fu, you'd already get licensed access.