Used my 2019 installer to install MS Office on my M3 Mac.
Smooth install and the app appears to run flawlessly (cringing at all
the updates that are about to come ...).
There is a license issue, so I have to see how to get the license "off"
of the i7 iMac and onto this one. There is download of a license uninstaller, but I want to understand the process well before leaping.
There's also a registration key, so may look for a way to get that "in"
and de-register that from the other Mac.
Haven't tried Word yet, but expect it to be smooth.
On 12.11.23 22:34, Alan Browne- wrote:
Used my 2019 installer to install MS Office on my M3 Mac.
Smooth install and the app appears to run flawlessly (cringing at all
the updates that are about to come ...).
There is a license issue, so I have to see how to get the license "off"
of the i7 iMac and onto this one. There is download of a license
uninstaller, but I want to understand the process well before leaping.
There's also a registration key, so may look for a way to get that "in"
and de-register that from the other Mac.
Haven't tried Word yet, but expect it to be smooth.
Totally insane to use this Microsoft-Crap on a brand new M3.
Use Apple-software or even better Libre Office:
On 12.11.23 22:34, Alan Browne- wrote:
Used my 2019 installer to install MS Office on my M3 Mac.
Smooth install and the app appears to run flawlessly (cringing at all
the updates that are about to come ...).
There is a license issue, so I have to see how to get the license "off"
of the i7 iMac and onto this one. There is download of a license
uninstaller, but I want to understand the process well before leaping.
There's also a registration key, so may look for a way to get that "in"
and de-register that from the other Mac.
Haven't tried Word yet, but expect it to be smooth.
Totally insane to use this Microsoft-Crap on a brand new M3.
Use Apple-software or even better Libre Office:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
It masters all their proprietary file types.
On 2023-11-13 03:56, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
On 12.11.23 22:34, Alan Browne- wrote:
Used my 2019 installer to install MS Office on my M3 Mac.
Smooth install and the app appears to run flawlessly (cringing at all
the updates that are about to come ...).
There is a license issue, so I have to see how to get the license "off"
of the i7 iMac and onto this one. There is download of a license
uninstaller, but I want to understand the process well before leaping.
There's also a registration key, so may look for a way to get that "in"
and de-register that from the other Mac.
Haven't tried Word yet, but expect it to be smooth.
Totally insane to use this Microsoft-Crap on a brand new M3.
Use Apple-software or even better Libre Office:
Excel blows Apple's numbers out of the water. A lot. It is much
easier to use and has functions Numbers does not.
Pages is quite good, better than Word in many respects, but Word
suffices 99.99% of the time and it's what I'm used to.
Libre-Office is fine unless your clients, suppliers, collaborators,
etc. are all using MS Office - which is my use case.
Having to "export" out of a LibreOffice doc isn't worth the additional
churn - never mind finding bizarre formatting error that occur.
On 2023-11-13 17:26:24 +0000, Alan Browne- said:
On 2023-11-13 03:56, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
On 12.11.23 22:34, Alan Browne- wrote:
Used my 2019 installer to install MS Office on my M3 Mac.
Smooth install and the app appears to run flawlessly (cringing at all
the updates that are about to come ...).
There is a license issue, so I have to see how to get the license "off" >>>> of the i7 iMac and onto this one. There is download of a license
uninstaller, but I want to understand the process well before leaping. >>>>
There's also a registration key, so may look for a way to get that "in" >>>> and de-register that from the other Mac.
Haven't tried Word yet, but expect it to be smooth.
Totally insane to use this Microsoft-Crap on a brand new M3.
Use Apple-software or even better Libre Office:
Excel blows Apple's numbers out of the water. A lot. It is much
easier to use and has functions Numbers does not.
Pages is quite good, better than Word in many respects, but Word
suffices 99.99% of the time and it's what I'm used to.
Libre-Office is fine unless your clients, suppliers, collaborators,
etc. are all using MS Office - which is my use case.
Having to "export" out of a LibreOffice doc isn't worth the additional
churn - never mind finding bizarre formatting error that occur.
You'll get formatting issues even using MS Word thanks to various
reasons - even tiny differences in font defintions of the supposed same
font can cause havoc.
If the people files are being sent to do not need to edit them, then PDF
is by far better option (although that too can have compatibility
problems with various readers, colour shifts when printed, etc.), so the
app you use to create it becomes irrelevant.
On 2023-11-13 08:56:00 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
It masters all their proprietary file types.
LibreOffice (and other similar free "office suites") is ugly, awful
garbage that is disgusting to attempt to use - it is even worse than
trying to use the awful MS Word. I only have LibreOffice on my Mac to very-occasionally convert really old AppleWorks documents.
On 13.11.23 21:09, Your Name wrote:
On 2023-11-13 08:56:00 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
It masters all their proprietary file types.
LibreOffice (and other similar free "office suites") is ugly, awful
garbage that is disgusting to attempt to use - it is even worse than
trying to use the awful MS Word. I only have LibreOffice on my Mac to
very-occasionally convert really old AppleWorks documents.
See!?
LO is superior. You like to troll a little bit. I told you this years
ago when you were trying to tell iPhone users what to do and what not
but you have no clue of smartphones at all because you do not have any.
Seems to be the same here ...
On 2023-11-14 10:54:38 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
On 13.11.23 21:09, Your Name wrote:
On 2023-11-13 08:56:00 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
It masters all their proprietary file types.
LibreOffice (and other similar free "office suites") is ugly, awful
garbage that is disgusting to attempt to use - it is even worse than
trying to use the awful MS Word. I only have LibreOffice on my Mac to
very-occasionally convert really old AppleWorks documents.
See!?
LO is superior. You like to troll a little bit. I told you this years
ago when you were trying to tell iPhone users what to do and what not
but you have no clue of smartphones at all because you do not have any.
Seems to be the same here ...
LibreOffice is slow, buggy, looks awful, and is even worse to attempt to
use for anything. It's free for a reason: it's complete and utter crap.
Same with Open Office and all the other similar products. As usual, you
get what you pay for.
The biggest reason they are such garbage is because they're simply lazy
ports of the Windoze or Linux versions, with little or no consideration
of MacOS ... even less than Microsoft's rubbish Office product does.
On 13.11.23 21:09, Your Name wrote:
On 2023-11-13 08:56:00 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
It masters all their proprietary file types.
LibreOffice (and other similar free "office suites") is ugly, awful
garbage that is disgusting to attempt to use - it is even worse than
trying to use the awful MS Word. I only have LibreOffice on my Mac to
very-occasionally convert really old AppleWorks documents.
See!?
LO is superior. You like to troll a little bit. I told you this years
ago when you were trying to tell iPhone users what to do and what not
but you have no clue of smartphones at all because you do not have any.
Seems to be the same here ...
On 2023-11-14 14:26, Your Name wrote:
On 2023-11-14 10:54:38 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
On 13.11.23 21:09, Your Name wrote:
On 2023-11-13 08:56:00 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
It masters all their proprietary file types.
LibreOffice (and other similar free "office suites") is ugly, awful
garbage that is disgusting to attempt to use - it is even worse than
trying to use the awful MS Word. I only have LibreOffice on my Mac to
very-occasionally convert really old AppleWorks documents.
See!?
LO is superior. You like to troll a little bit. I told you this years
ago when you were trying to tell iPhone users what to do and what not
but you have no clue of smartphones at all because you do not have any.
Seems to be the same here ...
LibreOffice is slow, buggy, looks awful, and is even worse to attempt
to use for anything. It's free for a reason: it's complete and utter
crap. Same with Open Office and all the other similar products. As
usual, you get what you pay for.
The biggest reason they are such garbage is because they're simply lazy
ports of the Windoze or Linux versions, with little or no consideration
of MacOS ... even less than Microsoft's rubbish Office product does.
You've always had this glorious hate-on for MS Office. Yet, it is very
good, very reliable, very popular. Need to chill a bit.
On 2023-11-14 19:59:38 +0000, Alan Browne- said:
On 2023-11-14 14:26, Your Name wrote:
On 2023-11-14 10:54:38 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
On 13.11.23 21:09, Your Name wrote:
On 2023-11-13 08:56:00 +0000, Joerg Lorenz said:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
It masters all their proprietary file types.
LibreOffice (and other similar free "office suites") is ugly, awful
garbage that is disgusting to attempt to use - it is even worse than >>>>> trying to use the awful MS Word. I only have LibreOffice on my Mac to >>>>> very-occasionally convert really old AppleWorks documents.
See!?
LO is superior. You like to troll a little bit. I told you this years
ago when you were trying to tell iPhone users what to do and what not
but you have no clue of smartphones at all because you do not have any. >>>> Seems to be the same here ...
LibreOffice is slow, buggy, looks awful, and is even worse to attempt
to use for anything. It's free for a reason: it's complete and utter
crap. Same with Open Office and all the other similar products. As
usual, you get what you pay for.
The biggest reason they are such garbage is because they're simply
lazy ports of the Windoze or Linux versions, with little or no
consideration of MacOS ... even less than Microsoft's rubbish Office
product does.
You've always had this glorious hate-on for MS Office. Yet, it is
very good, very reliable, very popular. Need to chill a bit.
MS Office is none of those things, but it is a step up from LibreOffice
and OpenOffice. MS Office isn't even remotely popular. It's ubiquitously
used because the business world took it on as a defacto standard (partly thanks to it being cheap / bundled with cheap Windows PCs) so many
people are now forced to use it at work, etc., but most people detest
using it.
Apple's Pages / Numbers / Keynote are better, but those too can be very cumbersome to use. The old AppleWorks suite was much better.
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