Good Alternatives for Office 365 ?

[RubbaJohnny]

I see microsoft plan to lock out excel files with .csv from January.Any advice please?

 

Welcome any advice on good alternates 

[ballpoint]

Do you have any link to this?  I've seen that Microsoft are stopping some addons to 360 in January, including Delve Blogs and invoicing, but nothing about locking out .csv files.  In fact, many of the sites reporting on the phasing out of them recommend current users export their data to a .csv file in order to retain it in Excel.

[RubbaJohnny]

I got a warning from ms when I tried to open some excel data today using Chrome Windows 10 with all updates.

Try open an excel and you should see it.

[RubbaJohnny]

It may be 365 support is linked to Windows 7 which I read ends next month. I'd like to get a stable version that needs no updates or net connection.

[johng]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/

 

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

[wgdanson]

Libreoffice much better than Open Office, I think.

[GarryP]

4 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Libreoffice much better than Open Office, I think.

I use that at home. Very good. 

 

Do you know of an opensource .pdf editor? I find them useful for completing forms/applications, but am limited to Foxit at the office. I would like one I can use at home. 

[wgdanson]

4 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I use that at home. Very good. 

 

Do you know of an opensource .pdf editor? I find them useful for completing forms/applications, but am limited to Foxit at the office. I would like one I can use at home. 

https://pdf.wondershare.com/pdf-knowledge/open-source-pdf-editor.html

[GarryP]

1 minute ago, wgdanson said:

https://pdf.wondershare.com/pdf-knowledge/open-source-pdf-editor.html

Thanks. I'll give it a try when I get home. 

[Traubert]

I use Open Office and WPS.

 

WPS is the better overall but it can be a bit clumsy until you get used to it.

[RubbaJohnny]

Thanks for all the ideas

[ignis]

Used WPS for a very long time find it perfect for all my needs, far better than M$, but then have used it for years so find it easy

[Maybole]

6 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Libreoffice much better than Open Office, I think.

I agree, I have been using it for more than 5 years

[AAArdvark]

19 hours ago, GarryP said:

I use that at home. Very good. 

 

Do you know of an opensource .pdf editor? I find them useful for completing forms/applications, but am limited to Foxit at the office. I would like one I can use at home. 

Foxit Reader is free.  It is not a full editor but you can use the Typewriter function to fill in forms.  It is in the toolbar at the top.  Just position the curser and type.

 

[GreasyFingers]

19 hours ago, GarryP said:

I use that at home. Very good. 

 

Do you know of an opensource .pdf editor? I find them useful for completing forms/applications, but am limited to Foxit at the office. I would like one I can use at home. 

If it is only for completing forms I use the free version of Nitro Reader. Can add signatures as well.

Edited December 21, 2019 by GreasyFingers
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[Russell17au]

I have not used Office 365 for about 8 years and I would never go back to a Microsoft Office system. I have used Apache Open Office since getting rid of Office 365 without any problems and for the PDF's I use Acrobat Reader DC and you can fill in your forms and add a signature to them. 

Edited December 21, 2019 by Russell17au

[Pdavies99]

On 12/20/2019 at 3:50 PM, wgdanson said:

Libreoffice much better than Open Office, I think.

Yes, you are right and it is compatible with android  tablets and phones as well.

 

 

[Stocky]

+1 LibreOffice

[Acharn]

LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/) is free and available for Windows or Linux. I suppose it's available for Apple, too, but I consider Apple an abomination and do not pay much attention to it. The programs work very much the same as the Office programs, and there is on-line help, but some of it is very old and no longer applicable. The spreadsheet application is called Calc and handles .cvs files.There is another suite called Star Office, from Sun Microsystems, which is also free, but I don't know much about it. I do not trust the Google online tools.

Edited December 21, 2019 by Acharn
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