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Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Reverendender@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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It's for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.

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[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It's super easy:

Download and install Office
run irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex in Powershell and follow the instructions
Profit!

What 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.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 6 months ago

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!

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 4 points 6 months ago

I never knew about this. How did you find out about this method?

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 months ago

I'm terminally online

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah please teach me how you found it so I can be as resourceful as you. I'm not really interested in your self deprecation. Thank you.

[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago

Not OP, but I'm aware of it just from seeing it mentioned in threads like this. There might be a community or list available showing all these cool things but a lot of the time it just goes around by word-of-mouth.

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

But, seriously, I'm pretty obsessed with piracy stuff and have spent an insane amount of time poring over lists like FMHY so it's like trivia to me now