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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.

Download office from massgrave.dev and activate with the power shell activator. Permanent activation as easy as it gets.

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

Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn't even notice.

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

look here

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

@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.

Download the official version and activate with MAS

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

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.

It's really easy to do actually.

I've had success using a cracked Office 2013 installation. The older ones don't have as sophisticated anti piracy measures and don't unactivate themselves as often.

I eventually got my dad to use Libre office. There are several different ui layouts and one of the is really similar to ms office.

Out of curiosity: what she doesn't like?
I bought my license for like 4 or 5 usd after a life of sailing and using libreoffice, not on ebay but on one of those praised website that sells key for games and such

How about a code from eBay for an older version usually around $5-$10 have never had an issue

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

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

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 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.

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.

It might sound like a pretty obvious thing, but have you tried changing the tools into the "Tabbed ribbon" that office uses instead of the classic old 90s organization scheme in options ?

I have come to notice that when people who don't really work with computers very well, in particular boomers, say that they can't stand LibreOffice, they mean they don't like the layout of the tools, because they can't find anything they need. I suppose they just got used to where everything is with modern office.

Just change it and see if she will like it better. Usually solves it for the boomers i help. Nothing is holding LibreOffice back more than their default layout scheme. They really don't know their target audience's pain points AT ALL. Just goes to show why you need to study your users using the product without being explained anything.

I don't get why their default is a layout that has been outdated for 24 years. Nostalgia or what? Only really old people who used computers in the 90s a lot will intuitively find it useful.