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ChemE75
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Aug 20, 2021

Totally bummed out

I probably should have expected this to happen eventually. Been using MS office for longer than I can recall. Most recent is Office 2010 pro which my former client installed when I was consulting so ...
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ChemE75
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Nov 27, 2021

Rebecca_Keysjust not a big fan of being forced to use online services, free or not. I got the free open source LibreOffice now and it seems to do all I need - not really missing Office anymore.

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Rebecca_Keys
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Nov 29, 2021
Got it, thanks Thomas! The team and I appreciate your response.
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    ChemE75
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    Dec 01, 2021
    Fwiw, I already have an acct for using onedrive and outlook as my backup email. However. Excel without macro ability is pretty useless except for the most basic of things. I reached out to my former client and they sent me a link to download office 2016 from the corp server. I offered to trade some engineering or CAD work. At least I can still leverage the macros I have in vba as I slowly transition to libre office.

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