• abc@feddit.uk
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    19 hours ago

    Even though I have a free student subscription, I uninstalled all Microsoft Office last month because the constant ‘do you want to use copilot???’ was infuriating.

        • thax@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 hours ago

          Do you know what would dry up those tears? A Copilot, to help you navigate your digital needs. Now, click this button, grant us root, and never worry again!

    • Broken@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      To be fair, I use excel (2019, not 365) frequently and I’m never prompted for anything. I had to jerry rig the installation so only excel installed and not the full suite of products, but other than that it’s been clean and perfect. Sure, I’m missing some features from 365, but one of those missing features is copilot. Everything else is perfect (and I need data sources and some other functions that aren’t in Calc which is why I still use it)

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        11 minutes ago

        Yep, I managed to find a license for 2019 several years aho and have just transferred it to my computers and I’ve upgraded. No copilot or prompts to upgrade.

        I’m still testdriving libreoffice to try to dump ms entirely but I like having a backup available.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        if i have xlookup and sumifs i can process most data i need. can’t do any real statistical analysis, but it’s just excel and it can prep that data for me.