It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.

  • Panda (he/him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1061·
    6 个月前

    While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It’s super easy:

    1. Download and install Office
    2. run irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex in Powershell and follow the instructions
    3. Profit!

    What doesn’t she like about LibreOffice, out of curiosity? It’s easy to make the layout like Office (View > User Interface > Tabbed) if that’s her problem - I felt the exact same way, but the second I found out I could do that, I never went back.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        6 个月前

        Man everyone I work with uses PDF and I have to do some janky shit to fill it out and sign it. Not that I would want docx either…

    • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
      6·
      6 个月前

      Done this a while ago for my brother who needed Office for work but isn’t as tech minded as I am. It’s honestly a fantastic tool, kudos to the creator!

      • andrew@radiation.partyEnglish
        23·
        6 个月前

        Massgrave is a tool that can create legit (oem) keys for windows and office out of thin air*

        • it’s not literally creating them from nothing, it’s using a system Ms themselves run to get working keys. Evidently they don’t have a huge problem with it.
        • Coasting0942@reddthat.comEnglish
          8·
          6 个月前

          Turns out the powershell step is enough to get 97% of users to shell out cash.

          And also, the biggest source of revenue is institutions who either will pay for the enterprise license, or can be sued for a good payday if they try to pirate.

        • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
          42·
          6 个月前

          Yeah please teach me how you found it so I can be as resourceful as you. I’m not really interested in your self deprecation. Thank you.

          • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zoneEnglish
            7·
            6 个月前

            Not OP, but I’m aware of it just from seeing it mentioned in threads like this. There might be a community or list available showing all these cool things but a lot of the time it just goes around by word-of-mouth.

          • Panda (he/him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            6 个月前

            :(

            But, seriously, I’m pretty obsessed with piracy stuff and have spent an insane amount of time poring over lists like FMHY so it’s like trivia to me now

  • fachpersonal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    852·
    6 个月前

    Download office from massgrave.dev and activate with the power shell activator. Permanent activation as easy as it gets.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        6 个月前

        There was an article that caught Microsoft’s own IT support use this script to activate a customer’s computer so I guess Microsoft approves of it.

        Edit: sauce

    • olicvb@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      6 个月前

      yea can barely call it ‘effort’ more like accidentally tripped, pressed enter and now office 365 is installed ;D

  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.mlEnglish
    603·
    6 个月前

    You could tell your mom the real price of MS office. She might suddenly stand LibreOffice just fine.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      15·
      6 个月前

      i’m always amused by the reaction of my friends when i tell them that office costs $10 per month. They are all always “whaaaaat?? This POS is this expensive??”

      • abbadon420@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        6 个月前

        Screw word. I’m studying Software Development, but I have to write all these management reports for various classes. I’m just writing them in LaTeX now, so it feels like I’m coding while I’m writing a paper. Implement some new fancy features every time that I than have to debug like I do with code.

  • Clot@lemm.eeEnglish
    392·
    6 个月前

    Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn’t even notice.

  • RoboRay@kbin.social
    32·
    6 个月前

    @Reverendender

    OnlyOffice Desktop Editors…

    Simpler interface but lacking more advanced features of MS Office or Libre. It has the features 90% of users actually use though.

    Nearly perfect DOCX formatting compatibility. The only thing I have ever noticed when collaborating with Word users is the bullet symbols on list items may be different on my end.

    • cestvrai@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      6 个月前

      Agreed. I really tried to like Libre/OpenOffice over the years but it never felt right. OnlyOffice really hits the spot for me.

      I don’t use Windows much any more but I was happy with the discounted student version of Office 2016, afaik the last perpetual license.

      • Proteus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        6 个月前

        Onlyoffice sucks very bad with macros in my experience, lacks some advanced functions, and infuriatingly doesn’t seem to have options search, but other than that it’s fantastic, very intuitive, ergonomic and sleek option.

        My own daily driver.

        • cestvrai@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          6 个月前

          If I’m doing anything substantial, calculation-wise, I use openpyxl.

            • cestvrai@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              6 个月前

              You might also find the Python library pandas useful. Its “DataFrames” can mirror your excel data 1:1 and you have convenience methods like to_excel(). Easy to combine with numpy for performant matrix math.

              XLSX just becomes a container for storing/sharing your data, and while Python is used for analysis. I would use matplotlib for plotting rather than embedding in the sheet.

    • d-RLY?@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 个月前

      Glad to see someone mention OO. I was going to, and saw your comment. I will always be down for LibreOffice, but OnlyOffice might be the “best” option for lots of people that are easily intimidated with change (or more specifically how something looks different). Even if it is lacking on some features, it just matters how the person it is recommended to uses MS Office. Being fair using MS Office or any of the similar suites is overkill for what they do. If smaller programs like Wordpad (RIP) or opensource Rich Text Format editors could handle so many general purpose documents.

  • KpochMX@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    201·
    6 个月前

    u can download OFFICE official ISO fom microsoft directly and use MASS to activate just take like 5 mins downloading, installing and activating.

  • PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    12·
    6 个月前

    I’ve had success using a cracked Office 2013 installation. The older ones don’t have as sophisticated anti piracy measures and don’t unactivate themselves as often.

    I eventually got my dad to use Libre office. There are several different ui layouts and one of the is really similar to ms office.

  • vlad@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    131·
    6 个月前

    At this point I think it’s more beneficial for you to move to using LibreOffice. It’s a better to spend your time getting used to that, instead of trying to obtain MS Office.

    I’m not saying that LibreOffice is as good, but it’s good enough.

  • VodkaSolution @feddit.itEnglish
    8·
    6 个月前

    Out of curiosity: what she doesn’t like?
    I bought my license for like 4 or 5 usd after a life of sailing and using libreoffice, not on ebay but on one of those praised website that sells key for games and such

  • electricprism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    6 个月前

    Why not just change to the other kind of header bar – Notebook or what not.

    I’d say no because at least LibreOffice won’t change for no reason every few years.

    Also, fuck Microsoft & their products & Adobe too. They can get lost and we shouldn’t prop them up as defacto when other options exist.