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oh god please. i need ms office for uni, i use the browser version, and holy shit is it bad. it makes me regret google docs…
just curious, what do you need it for alternatives like wps and lo can't do?
it's excel isn't it?
collaboration with classmates that use office, mostly
i guess we could use collabora or onlyoffice? but i feel like if i go to them asking "hey can you all create accounts on other services which you will find worse so i can avoid using a laggy website" they’ll just call me a nuisance
i guess we could use google docs, frankly docs is better than word online imo, but even then it’s trading trash for garbage…
it's garbage that runs in a browser though!