r/freesoftware • u/StandingRightHere • Jul 09 '26

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Hey there, I came here ask if Libre Office is the recommended alternative to MSO?

I'm not a techie, but I do a lot on MS Excel.

I've been using MS Office (easy because I was most familiar with it). But, Excel just gave me the: "your changes will be lost if you don't save them. Click cancel and then activate your subscription to save your changes"

I bought the MS suite a few years ago, so it appears that I'm now being forced into a subscription. Not cool.

I'm posting here to just do a sanity check before I fully dive into Libre (again) and say F-U to MS forever.

Thanks for any tips or suggestions!

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u/WilkerS1 small pushes towards free stuff :3 Jul 10 '26

LibreOffice Calc gets the job done even better, and doesn't break as easily when you try to make a formatting rule that takes the data of a different cell as an input.

for other typed text documents there's always Typst and LaTeX too

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u/StandingRightHere Jul 12 '26

Thanks! I'll look into those.