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or just use LibreOffice
If you work in an office or for an office or are connected to an office ... let them pay for it and use the software on their systems.
It's also a great excuse to disconnect from the office anyway ... if someone calls you after hours to do work ... tell them you need to access your computer at the office and won't do the work until you get back to your desk.
Otherwise, if there is no requirement from anyone and you're just doing some word processing yourself at home or doing some basic spreadsheets ... just use Open Source Software ... there's plenty of them around.
My mom will never grok LibreOffice.
I tried to switch her for a long time but I gave up when she called me one day to complain that her coworker can't open a file she saved. Apparently the coworker in question was too, emm, talented to open an .odf
There are things that are outside of human reach. I can't even put into words the strife that MSFT caused in my house when they switched Internet Explorer to Edge and thus "broke" her computer.