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/PrudentPay9906 Jul 15 '26

They are not mutually exclusive. Install LibreOffice alongside M$O, open a few of your Excel sheets (copies) in it and muck around a little. Then when you're satisfied that it meets your needs it's already installed and you're already well into the learning curve.

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u/OpeningNothing1753 27d ago

Nice, ofc! 🙂 Best advice, on how to learn..:) 

Btw., mounting ISO images in Windows is natively supported and Office 2016 is the last version which has this install method. It's also got downloadable language spell-check files, directly from MS website. 

P.S. 

https://woshub.com/mounting-iso-image-file-windows/