It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.
While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It’s super easy:
- Download and install Office
- run
irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iexin Powershell and follow the instructions - 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.
What’s this do? Been linux only for like 12 years and don’t keep up with office
irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex
Is there anything like this for MacOS 15?
Download office from massgrave.dev and activate with the power shell activator. Permanent activation as easy as it gets.
massgrave.dev
This appears to have worked flawlessly
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
yea can barely call it ‘effort’ more like accidentally tripped, pressed enter and now office 365 is installed ;D
You could tell your mom the real price of MS office. She might suddenly stand LibreOffice just fine.
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??”
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.
Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn’t even notice.
Hosting pirate scripts for a Microsoft product on another Microsoft owned website is… interesting.
There are even reported cases where Microsoft support used that tool to activate Windows Licenses when there are problems with the License of a customer.
Is there any tool like this for macOS?
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.
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.
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.
If I’m doing anything substantial, calculation-wise, I use openpyxl.
Interesting!
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.
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.
You can change libreoffice to have the ribbon and act more like ms office.
Go on
View -> User Interface, change to Tabbed or Tabbed Compact (or Notebookbar in old versions).
Refer to Google and YouTube.
u can download OFFICE official ISO fom microsoft directly and use MASS to activate just take like 5 mins downloading, installing and activating.
and you can be sure that it’s clean
MASS?
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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 suchWhy 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.
Krita is waving for some Photoshop users
i don’t want to start a war but sorry, office is the defacto when it comes to office work and libreoffice still have many problems with formatting and editing existing .docx files (things seem better when it comes to .xlsx and .pptx) not to mention that your documents might not look similar on both due to missing proprietary fonts.
its a good software in itself its just that its compatibility with office is a little dodgy
I’d argue that no one gives a shit what the docx looks like as long as it looks good as a PDF or presentation slide.
And for that I use whatever is at hand, which mostly consists of Gsuite shit at work. Sometimes O365 for school (because NA is stupid) or work. At home it’s
Librestill Gsuite…
How about a code from eBay for an older version usually around $5-$10 have never had an issue
key resellers have office 2021 pro plus (the non subscription one) for $30.00ish (earlier versions are even cheaper) and that is what I recommend if you absolutely have to get office.
imho between the two options, the more ethical is to pirate rather than supporting a shady key reseller. Anyway microsoft gets the exact same amount of money either if you purchase a stolen key from msdn or you install a pirated copy activated via mas
Considering the grey market is filled with dodgy keys, it’d be better to just pirate, especially when there are easy and safe ways to do it like with MAS
I’ve bought gray market keys for years without an issue. Also, good key sellers have money back guarantees
Good resellers do, but I think my point still stands - why risk any of that when Microsoft doesn’t get your money either way?
MAS/Massgrave works effectively, is open source, is well-documented, and literally free.Just found out about that today thanks
If you must have MS office, then I’d go with MAS/Massgrave like others have said.
It’s well documented, requires minimal setup (if going default route), and is much less risky than going into the grey market for keys or downloading cracks elsewhere.
