MS Office On Ubuntu?

[Tocsin_786]

so i just put linux on my laptop and came to the conclusion about how much libre office sucks. i hate going up to the menu bar for doing stuff because it reminds me of a mac i would not hate it if my laptop had a touch screen. so i know you can get windows applications onto linux using a program called wine. but i dont know how to use wine. is there a way to get office for linux?

[othertomperson]

it reminds me of a mac

 

lmfao the apple hate is so strong you won't use something that's vastly superior just because of your own misguided association? Nice one...

[Tocsin_786]

lmfao the apple hate is so strong you won't use something that's vastly superior just because of your own misguided association? Nice one...

thats not what i meant. ive used a mac for 7 years before it will happen again. i hated that bar on the mac and now its on linux i hate on there too. i said it reminds me of a mac cuz it really reminds me of one. i hate opening drop down menus on a laptop because of the track pad. none of these problems would be posted if i were on my PC. 

[othertomperson]

It sounds like you're referring to GNOME's interface, not LibreOffice. Are you using GNOME?

 

I'd take take if I were you. MS Office has that awful ribbon interface. It's ok enough for a desktop, but on a laptop it occupies the top third third of the entire screen. Sure you can turn it off. Turn off the entire interface to make room for your document...

 

LibreOffice's interface, last I looked at it, just mimicked the Office 2003 look.

[WillFromGA]

Only thing I can think of is office online. For me, my school pays for it so I get it for free. I get Office anywhere that has internet.

[moppop]

OpenOffice or Libre Office should be more than adequate as they both read MS office extensions.

[Art Vandelay]

You can run office on Wine, Wine is an adapter that allows windows programs to run on Linux.

 

I'd take take if I were you. MS Office has that awful ribbon interface. It's ok enough for a desktop, but on a laptop it occupies the top third third of the entire screen. Sure you can turn it off. Turn off the entire interface to make room for your document...

I really hate those bars too. They're just obnoxious. IIRC, openoffice adopted them too. Libreoffice didn't at least.

 

If you have to work with someone that has MS Office, not having MS Office is a pain.

 

lmfao the apple hate is so strong you won't use something that's vastly superior just because of your own misguided association? Nice one...

The level of irony in that statement is astounding

[chilicheeseburger]

You should try linux mint, maybe you'll like it better than ubuntu. As for the MS Office Question... I guess open office and libre office will have to do They're alright but have somme compatibility issues with ms office. Most of the time they work just fine tough.

Edit: Or you can use wine. I haven't tried that yet but it should work.

[Syntaxvgm]

You can with Wine. I've done it, you just have to be prepared for lots of research and headaches as with a lot of things with wine. 

[pspfreak]

Try Microsofts free service (waaaaat? Free? Microsoft?)

 

Check it out: https://onedrive.live.com/

 

[Guest]

Try Kingsoft Office

It's not free-as-in-freedom, but it is freeware and I've found it to be considerably better than Open/Libre Office.

[Misanthrope]

It sounds like you're referring to GNOME's interface, not LibreOffice. Are you using GNOME?

 

I'd take take if I were you. MS Office has that awful ribbon interface. It's ok enough for a desktop, but on a laptop it occupies the top third third of the entire screen. Sure you can turn it off. Turn off the entire interface to make room for your document...

 

LibreOffice's interface, last I looked at it, just mimicked the Office 2003 look.

 

The ribbon is awful for word which is what most people use that only needs a handful of things on the tools bar. If you use Excel however it's sorta ok if you need those though most excel users use mostly shortcuts instead. On Access is really useful vs the old versions as well it just has a lot more options by being tabbed.

[othertomperson]

The ribbon is awful for word which is what most people use that only needs a handful of things on the tools bar. If you use Excel however it's sorta ok if you need those though most excel users use mostly shortcuts instead. On Access is really useful vs the old versions as well it just has a lot more options by being tabbed.

 

I don't mind the ribbon necessarily, I hate the way it just doesn't scale with low resolutions. On my desktop I don't have an issue with it beyond having to relearn where everything is and some of the placements are quite counter-intuitive now, but on my work laptop it takes up like an inch and a half of the screen and I'm supposed to get around this by removing the interface entirely and toggling it on and of as and when I need to actually do something, which makes everything take a lot longer than it ought to.

 

Case in point, look at the Office Online screen shots above. Look at what proportion of that entire image is just interface. If that is your entire screen, how much space is just for toolbars? Does the "format number" icon really need to be an inch and a half tall? Isn't the actual document the most important part of this whole thing? The whole interface needs to be redesigned to refocus on maximising the usable work area, while displaying as many of the commonly used tools as possible.

 

Microsoft word uses an interface designed back when 4:3 monitors were ubiquitous. These days unless you're writing your document landscape, two thirds of your space is wasted. This is true whatever resolution you're working at. Why are the toolbars not vertical by default?