Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.

You can now enable a tabbed interface similar to Microsoft Office

This here.

I wish Only Office got as much fanfare as LibreOffice. The UI is much closer to Microsoft Office and it tends to have better compatibility.

I have both installed though and use them both lol.

Downside is ties to Russia and performance is really bad, as I understand it's an Electron web app, not a native application. It also won't save to network shares properly and will lose your file if you do.

Don't ever save your files directly on a samba share with only office. Lost hours of work twice . It doesn't keep recovery files.

Getting anything out is already almost impossible. I moved sway from 3rd party cloud storage a couple years back. I had to get 500gb from onedrive and it was refusing to download at anything more than 50kb/s (my internet was significantly better than that)

If you're in the EU, you can apply for a GDPR request to get sent a copy of all your data in their cloud, same for iCloud. Takes about 48 hours in my experience.

Where do you think Google learned it?

Yeah I got through school and could work just fine now with Calc. I'm sure it breaks when you get fancy but not that many people get that fancy.

directions unclear, now I’m directing a netflix special on sexy horse guerrillas.

bingo

Ha! Exactly where I was going with that.

they're probably already doing that to a smaller degree, and slightly protecting themselves with an obscure clause in their TOS. besides, you only lose lawsuits if you get caught - and churning things through AI is a great way to erase any fingerprints that identifies stolen data

It's designed to be very similar. If you are already familiar with Word, you should feel right at home.

I’ve been using it for over a decade now and have only rarely come across broken documents due to proprietary features. If you’re making docs for yourself, I’d say it’s pretty much a 100% replacement. Things can get a bit more fucky if you’re having exchanges where you edit with Libre and someone else edits with Word. But other than that, they’re pretty darn close.

Pretty much. It was OpenOffice years ago, but then Oracle got involved and so all the devs left and put a new name on it.

No. That's the point. LibreOffice does not send your data to Microsoft.

LibreOffice is what Microsoft Office WAS without the bugs. If Word and Excel worked for you before the cloud, Libre is golden.

For today, you can call me Jeeves. To learn more, a quick search for "microsoft genocide" or "microsoft gaza" will give you the answers.

• https://www.newarab.com/features/ex-microsoft-employees-expose-companys-role-gaza-genocide
• https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/21/tech/microsoft-employee-protests-israel-intl
• https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-israel-protests-2000648637
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo
• https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft-asked-fbi-for-help-tracking-palestinian-protests/

Working hand in hand with the Israeli government in mass surveillance and (likely) AI-generated targeting data.

This here. Not fully featured but a decent reader and editor which we hope will improve with time. Good effort on the devs!

LibreOffice & Open Office Document Reader | ODF https://f-droid.org/packages/at.tomtasche.reader/

There's a web port AFAIK, web dev has a lower entry level

Check out the Collabra Office android app. It probably covers your needs.

Ms office 2016 install still going strong with zero cloud function. That day I lose it is the day LibreOffice copies itself from the laptop to the desktop. Aint paying for O365

You can change it for now.