Office Update

[James Woodyatt]

Anyone else having trouble with Office?

I have office 2013 (I Think) It keeps asking if I want a free upgrade to Office 365, but If i accept, in a years time im just going to be forced to pay for the 365 am I not?

 

[Scalloway]

I got the same thing and I clicked on it as I am half thinking to go from 2010 to 2016 anyway. All I got was One Note 2016.

 

[Scott@KarmaContent]

Have you ever thought about using Google Docs? I find it so much better than Word and best of all it's free.

 

[Scalloway]

I agree I could replace Word with Google Docs but the free spreadsheet doesn't have the functionality I get from Excel.

 

[Benjie_P]

Has anyone tried OpenOffice here? It works the same as Microsoft office but it's free opensource and you never have to pay for anything. It also has its excel type as one of its features. Pretty much all functions are similar to Microsoft office. Just a thought though if you are looking for a free one as I've used it before as an alternative to MS office suite.

 

[Raw Rob]

Has anyone tried OpenOffice here? It works the same as Microsoft office but it's free opensource and you never have to pay for anything. It also has its excel type as one of its features. Pretty much all functions are similar to Microsoft office. Just a thought though if you are looking for a free one as I've used it before as an alternative to MS office suite.

Yes, I use OpenOffice all the time. Or LibreOffice which is similar (it's a fork of OpenOffice) but possibly better now.

 

[Scalloway]

The problem I have found with Libre Office is that formatting disappears if you are swapping between it and Excel.

 

[Alan]

spreadsheet doesn't have the functionality I get from Excel.

I keep hearing this,it would be great to know exactly what functionality it falls short on. I'm only a 'moderate' spreadsheet user (sums, the odd extra sheet with vlookup, string concatenation etc) so haven't found a limitation, but genuinely interested where people find the limitations.

 

[Scalloway]

It's been a while since I last used Libre Office so I downloaded the latest version this evening. The issue I had in the past was that it failed to keep the colour highlighting that I put into cells. I tried a test just now and this still seems to be the case. It also used to change the font but that didn't happen this time.

My opinion is that you are better sticking to one or the other.

 

[Alan]

I was asking in reference to Google Sheets. Sorry for confusion.