Office software 2025

[Mendalla]

Came across this old thread, now 7 years in the past. Things have changed in the world of office suites in some regards, kind of stayed the same in others. In the Microsoft world, the focus is almost entirely on the Microsoft 365 subscription model though apparently there was an Office 2024 one-time purchase release. And, of course, MS has been shoving more and more of their Co-pilot LLM AI into Office. SO I wonder what answers are like today.

Thread 'Office suite software'

Sep 22, 2018

Mendalla's thread on browser use got me curious. What office software (word processing, presentation, etc.) do you use most often, and why? Is there as huge difference between them? What case could you make for the one you use most?

Just asking out of sheer nosiness....

• Redbaron
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In the poll, Microsoft 365 (Office 365) is the subscription model, Microsoft Office (local install) is the one-time purchase model.

 

[Mendalla]

My continuing dismay over MS forcing Co-pilot down users' throats led me to some drastic action in my personal computing. Google is getting just as bad with their Gemini LLM. So, when I bought my new laptop, I adopted LibreOffice as my office suite. And it works pretty well. Quite flexible, handles MS Office file formats with little or no issue when I need to work with them, has some features MS doesn't, gives you a choice of interfaces (e.g. if you want an MS-style ribbon, you can have one, but you can also have an old school toolbar and a couple other options in between). Eventually, Windows got the boot, too, and I now run Linux Mint, a popular release of the Linux open source operating system, as my main operating system on my personal laptop.

At work, we still use Microsoft 365 and I am fine with it. Just not my first choice for personal use anymore.

 

[GordW]

Personally LibreOffice, the church uses Microsoft365

 

[Redbaron]

Still using LibreOffice, having had no real reason to change. I have gotten used to it, and it is budget friendly. It offers me a chance to contribute to the cause at every update, and maybe once a year I give a few bucks, to feel like I'm helping out.

 

[Mendalla]

I will quickly point out that at the moment, the WC2 financials and statistics are maintained in Google Calc. Makes it easier for both Jayne and I to have access to the files if they are in a shared drive and since we have an admin GMail account, using its Google Drive space is the most sensible shared storage.

 

[Luce NDs]

My continuing dismay over MS forcing Co-pilot down users' throats led me to some drastic action in my personal computing. Google is getting just as bad with their Gemini LLM. So, when I bought my new laptop, I adopted LibreOffice as my office suite. And it works pretty well. Quite flexible, handles MS Office file formats with little or no issue when I need to work with them, has some features MS doesn't, gives you a choice of interfaces (e.g. if you want an MS-style ribbon, you can have one, but you can also have an old school toolbar and a couple other options in between). Eventually, Windows got the boot, too, and I now run Linux Mint, a popular release of the Linux open source operating system, as my main operating system on my personal laptop.

At work, we still use Microsoft 365 and I am fine with it. Just not my first choice for personal use anymore.

Is there some sense of anti monopoly revealed as a constitution? Thus vast partitions as the demons could look themselves over from various angles ... supports self reflection on an infinite scale ... Logi? Thus logged ... with implications!

 

[JayneWonders]

I primarily use Microsoft products, including 365

 

[BetteTheRed]

I'm prone to using the google apps, cause they're handy. Calc doesn't like my excel vlookups, lol.

 

[Mendalla]

Calc doesn't like my excel vlookups, lol.

I have never tried lookups in Google Calc so not even sure how. I mostly use xlookup in Excel these days though I think the Excel gurus on YouTube are actually recommending some even newer version of the lookup function. xlookup gets the job done so I haven't investigated further, just seen them come up in my recs from time to time.

 

[Luce NDs]

The fight to look-up continues as powers tell us to keep our eyes down ... don't look ... you could see something we don't wish exposed!

There are alien signs about this item of contention ... thus eddies and stirs!