MS Office
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Not sure if this is license related, but I think any modern app needs to contact a remote server to check for your license once in a while. MS Office used to require you to be online at least once a month, and if your license had expired the app would turn into a read-only mode. It probably depends what version (commercial vs. consumer / mobile vs. desktop / Web app vs. device app) you are using. I guess free versions like OpenOffice can be less painful when it comes to licensing.
Is this a licensing question? If you have Office 365, then it has to check in every so often to re-validate that your subscription is active. If you're using Office Pro Plus, then the license is perpetual and it doesn't need to check it.
I'm not a big fan of Office, but if you're using MacOS, you should be able to use Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote for "free", i.e. included with the Apple tax.
AS I peck I am on an old win 7.1 laptop left over from the office with network licenses
It nags to validate Windows o/s, but when you choose to go online, it cannot be updated without full w10.
So I live with the back black ground that no license forces, and the occasional nag note in the lower tray.
Another laptop died so that brought this one back to service. Ported in a SSD and it surfs just fine.
When I had reason to fire up MSOffice it is the 2010 version. Said I had 30 days to validate. I am past that now. Top of the app screen shows red, but so far the applications seem to be working just fine as far as manipulating data.
So this might be a work around to avoid the software as service model that expects you to pay all the time, whereas you once bought it one off.
It nags to validate Windows o/s, but when you choose to go online, it cannot be updated without full w10.
So I live with the back black ground that no license forces, and the occasional nag note in the lower tray.
Another laptop died so that brought this one back to service. Ported in a SSD and it surfs just fine.
When I had reason to fire up MSOffice it is the 2010 version. Said I had 30 days to validate. I am past that now. Top of the app screen shows red, but so far the applications seem to be working just fine as far as manipulating data.
So this might be a work around to avoid the software as service model that expects you to pay all the time, whereas you once bought it one off.
I had a MS Office Lifetime Subscription for my Desktop. Used it without any issues until last year when there were several issues with slowness, freezing etc when using the Excel spread-sheets. Then error messages kept popping up. Tried first to fix it with the Microsoft Office troubleshooting but it did not work. Then went online to diagnose it and it was the biggest mistake, as it took my Microsoft Office subscription offline and wanted me to input the Key to renew it. But the Lifetime key was not accepted as it was considered to have expired.....Really, a lifetime key expiring?
Tried contacting Microsoft by messaging them on there Customer Service website, and got a message back stating that as it was above their responsibilities, I would have to contact the technician, but have to pay around US$ 6 to speak to that agent. Really? I decided to just buy a new annual key for one year and it now is expiring.
I want to switch to LibreOffice. Have you converted any MS Office Excel Spread-sheets to LibreOffice and were there any issues with it, or is it just as smooth as copying and pasting a spread-sheet into a new tab / spread-sheet with Excel itself?
Thanks.
I'm a Linux guy. Dumped Windows years ago. Have been using free OpenOffice and now LibreOffice for years with no issues. Friends and businesses do send MS Office files etc., which LibreOffice has no problems converting over and opening. Worth giving it a try, it's free.
You left out, updating received files and returning a modified MS format file. Interestingly, LibreOffice can read Microsoft Works documents and can save them as Word docs; something that MS Word cannot do.
Absolutely. I used LibreOffice for probably 10 years now. But now I am almost always directly on google drive (google docs).
Converted all the files including Word, Excel and Power Point. Just had an issue with one Excel Spread-sheet. Had multiple Tabs for different months of the year, but for some reason this particular spread-sheet is taking a long time to open up. Erased the whole spread-sheet and once agin re-converted the Excel Spread-sheet into this LibreOffice spreadsheet. Same issue. When I looked at the size of the original Excel as compared to The LibreOffice there was quite a difference. Excel was around 200 Kb, whereas this LibreOffice one is 2300 Kb. No such issues with the other spread-sheets. Now I have to figure out why the big expansion in terms of Kb of size? Thanks, otherwise it really was a smooth transition for all the other files.
Good to know. After converting the Excel to Calc., I noticed that it created over 21,0000 pages in one of the tabs. Was not straightforward to erase those unnecessary pages. So I had to copy and paste the spread-sheet into a new tab, and then erase that tab with the issue. Now it works fine. However, formatting some of the columns and boxes is not as straightforward. Guess, with time I should manage to decipher it.
