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Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits (www.theregister.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 124 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (28 children)

LibreOffice

And perfectly working software that covers whatever else MS365 offers, e.g. Thunderbird

I'd love for more people to change to Linux, but these are all (also) Windows software.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Sometimes I find myself annoyed by Lemmy users. We love to tout foss alternatives, even when they don't work as well, or aren't nearly as polished.

Libre office is a different story, it has everything you'll need, it's really complete, it does everything you want and it can read any format you throw at it and save its output in any format you need. It launches faster than Microsoft office, it's more stable, I really have absolutely no complaints, everyone should be using it.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does it support macros?

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah it does. I'll be honest, I don't use spreadsheets much so I don't have personal experience with it, but yeah it does support that.

I was curious, so I followed up on this. Here's what a quick Google search turned up:

To open an XLSM file in LibreOffice Calc, you can generally open it directly. However, you might need to save it in a different format (like ODS) to ensure compatibility, especially if you're dealing with macros. LibreOffice Basic is not directly compatible with Excel VBA macros, so you may need to rewrite the macros to use LibreOffice Basic.

In other words, you may need to save your Excel documents as open document files, but after that their macros should work just as they did. Either way, macros are supported and in fact there are a few different scripting languages you can use.

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