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Why not just promote open source? Unless maybe if you need it for a career. Even if you're ...pirating just boycott that shit, lol.
Agreed. If you're sharing files in Office file formats, even if you pirated the software, you're still indirectly promoting their software.
LibreOffice can read and export to Microsoft Office formats. So there's really no reason to pirate Microsoft Office even if you technically need it for a job (and if the IT guy complains about "non-standard software", threaten to get him written up by HR for wasting company hours complaining instead of actually doing his job).
Except for those cases where it can't. There's always some small, but important, discrepancies. Never have I been able to actually use Libre Writer instead of Word when another party is using Word - same goes for Calc and Excel, sadly. Excel is an absolute UX nightmare for me and I violently hate using it.
I've had zero issues loading .doc and .docx files in Writer, and the same goes for .xls and .xlsx files in Calc. The only thing that might have issues is anything with VBS built-in, but that's not commonly used and I haven't run into that yet.
I will say that I agree with you on Excel's UX, but with the caveat that spreadsheet programs in general are just a pain (still better than trying to do anything manually in QuickBooks Online, though).
I wish the whole world would just drop Microsoft office like the bad product it is and went to libre. Yeah, it was innovative when it first hit the scene, but now it's just become stale and pointlessly expensive.
For me it was powerpoint presentations.