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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 15 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Preaching to the choir here but LibreOffice has been excellent since my MSOffice license expired. Unless you're working in an enterprise setting with MS-specific macros or online collaboration, there's no reason to be paying for basic document editing software in 2025.

There are also self-hosted and open-sourced collaborative editing suites available that I haven't tried yet, but there are plenty of options

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Does it save files locally or only cloud? I want to move away from google docs/sheets.

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 1 points 9 minutes ago

I think locally only, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

[–] AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works 1 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

Even if you need microsoft office for some random file you can use their free web version. Well it's been a couple years since I last needed it I'm assuming it still exists