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:
irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex in Powershell and follow the instructionsWhat 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
Massgrave is a tool that can create legit (oem) keys for windows and office out of thin air*
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.
I would pay to not use PowerShell, but I'm a Linux user so I don't need to :)
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!
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.
Hosting pirate scripts for a Microsoft product on another Microsoft owned website is... interesting.
Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn't even notice.
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).
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.
Download the official version and activate with MAS
Neat. I didn't know any services like this existed.
Should I be wary of using this while logged in to my Microsoft account?
As long as it’s for personal use I don’t think Microsoft gives a shit (beyond what is legally necessary)
They care more that you’re using their software and it stays the default productivity suite for workplaces
I don‘t think so. I‘m logged in with a regular account and don‘t have any trouble.
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
It's really easy to do actually.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
It's because it's not the native format. How does MS Office show/edit ODT documents? Does it work better?
It might sound like a pretty obvious thing, but have you tried changing the tools into the "Tabbed ribbon" that office uses instead of the classic old 90s organization scheme in options ?
I have come to notice that when people who don't really work with computers very well, in particular boomers, say that they can't stand LibreOffice, they mean they don't like the layout of the tools, because they can't find anything they need. I suppose they just got used to where everything is with modern office.
Just change it and see if she will like it better. Usually solves it for the boomers i help. Nothing is holding LibreOffice back more than their default layout scheme. They really don't know their target audience's pain points AT ALL. Just goes to show why you need to study your users using the product without being explained anything.
I don't get why their default is a layout that has been outdated for 24 years. Nostalgia or what? Only really old people who used computers in the 90s a lot will intuitively find it useful.
How about a code from eBay for an older version usually around $5-$10 have never had an issue
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.
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