When I was in college, libreoffice calc was a good enough Excel alternative to get me through finance, accounting, statistics and business science. I graduated in 2020 to give you some perspective. Worst case you run a pirated Windows VM with pirated Office. Also, shame on all the downvoting fucks who probably are too privileged to have any business being on this community
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One option is to see if you have the ability to purchase Office 2019 or 2021 for home use through school or an employer. I've been able to purchase both versions for US$20. It's cheap and legal. Now, installing it under Linux is another conversation altogether.
If you are a student with certain schools you can get it for free. I'm doing a part time course at a UK university and they gave it for free, I just had to register using my university email address. I've not taken it up as want to avoid it in favour of libreoffice but will use for coursework on a VM if I really need to.
Guess they try to suck people in so they pay in the future
I really can't think of anything that excel can do that libre can't in a business setting. Libre office has a lot of functionality. I haven't touched Ms office in two years now.
vba macros on excel is not good on Libreoffice
Indeed they are not. LibreOffice docs claim VBA support is "mostly complete". Apparently that's a relative term because in my experience, VBA macros in Calc barely work at all.
I like almost everything in Libre Suite except for the God awful Libre Calc
I really can’t think of anything that excel can do that libre can’t in a business setting. Libre office has a lot of functionality. I haven’t touched Ms office in two years now.
it's more about cross compatibility for me and there are many things I think. It lacks many of the advanced features that Excel has. But still, even if it did have it, I have to collaborate and I just can't take chances of in compatibility (one of the reasons I am edit:not even going to use OnlyOffice which has greater compatibility. )
LibreOffice Calc is great but in the spreadsheet world, Excel is still the gold standard. One of the reasons I'm still paying for a Office 365 subscription. That and a handful of custom integrations I have with Exchange that I don't currently have time to find alternatives for.
I see. That does seem troubling. I have a login with access to excel. If you'd like I can dm you he login info.
I've consistenly made an Office 2016 bottle that works. I haven't been able to activate it though.
The guide is in Spanish but it's just importing the bottle and changing the language. Others have left ISOs available in other languages in the comments.
https://elsotanoenlared.es/office-2016-32-bits-en-linux-con-bottles/
Hope it helps!
Why not use the LTSC releases, they're crackable 🤷.