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While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It's super easy:

1. Download and install Office
2. run irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex in Powershell and follow the instructions
3. Profit!

What doesn't she like about LibreOffice, out of curiosity? It's easy to make the layout like Office (View > User Interface > Tabbed) if that's her problem - I felt the exact same way, but the second I found out I could do that, I never went back.

Are you able to run it through wine?

@Reverendender

OnlyOffice Desktop Editors...

Simpler interface but lacking more advanced features of MS Office or Libre. It has the features 90% of users actually use though.

Nearly perfect DOCX formatting compatibility. The only thing I have ever noticed when collaborating with Word users is the bullet symbols on list items may be different on my end.

i don't want to start a war but sorry, office is the defacto when it comes to office work and libreoffice still have many problems with formatting and editing existing .docx files (things seem better when it comes to .xlsx and .pptx) not to mention that your documents might not look similar on both due to missing proprietary fonts.

its a good software in itself its just that its compatibility with office is a little dodgy

This really depends on what she’s using it for. If she’s going to use it for anything business related, she needs a legal copy. That includes her sitting down to write the next great American novel or Sookie Stackhouse series. If she’s just needs to open recipes someone else sends her, not a problem at all.

How are people installing it on Linux these days? Arch specifically.

i came across a guide on rentry that said how to permanently activate office 365 downloading from official microsoft servers

don't have the link

u can download OFFICE official ISO fom microsoft directly and use MASS to activate just take like 5 mins downloading, installing and activating.

Why not just change to the other kind of header bar -- Notebook or what not.

I'd say no because at least LibreOffice won't change for no reason every few years.

Also, fuck Microsoft & their products & Adobe too. They can get lost and we shouldn't prop them up as defacto when other options exist.

If you must have MS office, then I'd go with MAS/Massgrave like others have said.

It's well documented, requires minimal setup (if going default route), and is much less risky than going into the grey market for keys or downloading cracks elsewhere.

Why not try out onlyoffice? The interface is almost exactly the same, and you get free cloud storage

key resellers have office 2021 pro plus (the non subscription one) for $30.00ish (earlier versions are even cheaper) and that is what I recommend if you absolutely have to get office.

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are free to use with the web interface.

You could tell your mom the real price of MS office. She might suddenly stand LibreOffice just fine.

At this point I think it's more beneficial for you to move to using LibreOffice. It's a better to spend your time getting used to that, instead of trying to obtain MS Office.

I'm not saying that LibreOffice is as good, but it's good enough.

You can change libreoffice to have the ribbon and act more like ms office.

You could give WPS a look

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

look here