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Pirating Microsoft Office 2019 on Linux? (lemmy.ml)
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for some background, I'm on latest stable Kubuntu. able to use Microsoft Office via a KVM+Winapps setup currently. it mostly works but there are a few kinks like the display frame getting fucked up when going full screen or windowed, drag and drop being hit or miss and whatnot...

i did read up on Office 2019 being installable using Wine, but wasn't able to find any methods to activate it. MAS isn't really a thing on wine since we don't have Powershell I believe. any ideas?

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[–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents

everything can.
That is because Microsoft doesn't follow the 1000 page docx standards they wrote themselves.

And I will defend the decent UI against modern words ribbon-trash to my death.
libreoffice ui can certainly be improved a lot, but microsoft office is definitely worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    100% can confirm. It always takes me ages to find what i need in the ribbon interface. Especially the things that aren't visible all the time. First time I was asked to print something, I really struggled with that. And it used to be File->Print. And I have no interest in finding out if they made it easier or worse to do things like conditional formatting or alternating row colors in tables.

    Regarding the issues with formatting: It's Microsoft's fault. They're doing this deliberately to get rid of competition. And they'll ensure it stays that way in the future.

    There is one exception, however: You need to install the correct fonts. If you don't have the specified font available, a document will look differently and things might get misplaced, because your characters might now be wider or narrower.

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