How To Use Office 365 In Ubuntu
Eufrasia Radich
I am using Ubuntu and I need to do my project work. When I use libre office for the work purpose it stores in odt format and converting from odt to docx format changes the alignment of words and paragraphs in documentation.
Simply put, yes, it's possible to use Microsoft Office on a Linux computer, without needing to use a Windows emulator. Microsoft has created a version of Microsoft Office with Cloud integration called Microsoft Office 365, which can be accessed on any device by using a web browser to connect to the web version of the Microsoft Office package.
Of course, this will require you to create a Microsoft Office account and pay Microsoft for the privilege of using their software. Also, the web version of Microsoft Word is not fully compatible with the standalone Microsoft Word software, having quite a few features such as image captions and title pages missing.
Yes, there is a good alternative. Onlyoffice is free and open source (GitHub), and has excellent Microsoft Office compatibility (including viewing Annotated Powerpoint presentations).
Windows running in VBox still technically requires a license for full performance. Without activating, you won't be able to personalize the desktop background, window title bar, taskbar, and Start color, change the theme, customize Start, taskbar, and lock screen etc. Additionally, you might periodically get messages asking to activate your copy of Windows
My personal experience is that the most seamless Ubuntu/Linux integration with full native Linux compatibility is provided by Softmaker Office.Compared to say, LibreOffice, I've found the compatibility w.r.t. Microsoft formats (especially .docx) far superior.
Generally speaking, there will always be some discrepancies in how your documents are displayed in different applications and versions. Even MS Office 2019 Professional, MS Office 365 and MS Office for Web do not always display documents in the same way.
Another issue to consider is compatibility with your peers: if some of your peers are also using let's say LibreOffice already, you may have less issues when sharing documents with them if you also use LibreOffice.
Just from personal experience, I have found WPS office has the best compatibility with Desktop MS-Word and Excel; I've tried Libre Office, OnlyOffice, Office365 (Google Docs is better I think), an others I've forgotten about, but they all come up a bit short. Also since WPS's ribbon format seems to be an almost like-for-like rip-off of MS-Office, it has the shortest learning curve if you're a long-standing MS-Office user. I have tried to persevere with LibreOffice in the past, it's very comprehensive, but some features are still a bit clunky, and the rendering quite often is just a bit "off" (like Disney characters on the back of ice-cream vans), enough to make it a time-waster
Perhaps I'm gonna state the obvious, but you can (and should!) use Office online. Dropbox (even the free tier) provides access to an online Microsoft Office suite which should be more than enough for us mortals (provided you don't need crazy Excel macros or that stuff), integrated with their storage. IMHO that's the best feature from Dropbox.
Google docs is also a good alternative for microsoft office package. It's bit hard to truly dependent on microsoft office if you are on ubuntu. The best option is to stick permanently to one option. There is a burden to switch between softwares. I prefer google docs.
outside of running Microsoft Office 365 in a browser, depending on what functionality and version compatibility you need, you can use different alternative as already said before, but one important for me is the OLE automation.The only office alternative that has it to my knowledge is openoffice.note that it is not working when libre office is installed!
I finally was able to make Nextcloud Office work. My installation is using the nextcloud snap on an ubuntu base (in an lxd container). The problem and partial fix are not specific to a version of nextcloud, nextcloud hub or ubuntu. I have had the issue that documents will never stop loading for a very long time.
One problem that still persists, is that the Appimage is not started automatically after a reboot. If anybody can hint me to the mechanism that should start it, I think my installation is finally fully functional.
I would like to use OneDrive on Ubuntu, May be working with all or some folders. Since there is no office OneDrive client in Linux, I've searched online and found "rclone" but not sure how secure it is or is there any other alternative out there?
I am the maintainer of the free OneDrive Client for Linux, which supports OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365 and Sharepoint, and fully supports Azure National Cloud Deployments for those that require it. It fully supports shared folders - both OneDrive Personal and OneDrive Business Shared Folders.
With your existing command, no - there is no automatic sync occurring. However, if you switch '--synchronize' for '--monitor' this will continually sync until you exit the application - ie - sync automatically.
It has deb/rpm/AppImage packages and runs on nearly all linux distros. There is a desktop edition as well as a server edition that runs headless. Mounting specific sharepoint sites, remote paths, etc are all supported as well as offline mode and async writes. Also built to withstand reboots, transient networks, etc.
Expandrive has the ability to connect to Onedrive and Sharepoint and create a virtual mounted drive. You do not have to sync files to your computer to use them. It operates like a mapped network drive in Windows (without a drive letter of course) or a mounted drive on a Mac. Expandrive is not free and I have no association with the company. But I do have a license of my own. You can try it for free and even keep using it for free once the trial expires. However, after the trial expires you will only be able to use it for something like 20 minutes and then have to restart it.
Expandrive also connects to may other platforms including SFTP (which allows a Windows client to map a drive letter to a Linux SFTP server). It has Windows, Linux and Mac clients. Even when you have a native client for a specific app (Say OneDrive or Dropbox in Windows), Expandrive can be useful to just create a mapped drive and not have to worry about managing synced folders.
@jsmpvSomething about "polished and powerful": Be aware, that there is no offline sync feature in the linux version. I complained about that already over a year ago, but all I get are empty promises, that this feature will be implemented soon.
Download Google Chrome Beta or Dev (keep the paths and SSH key separate- a tmp user account is my usual go to on fedora) In the browser - click you can mount it as a separate drive on your file system. No sudo required. @muratkazanova
If your still out there in the wild working on this - I can dev a framework to fit the use case and tarball it for you but I would need to know the logic just so I could make it useful, mine is pretty "neat-o", I can snap up something fairly quick if needed
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs for word processing, the creation and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae.
When you install SoftMaker Office, the icons for common document formats such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX are assigned to SoftMaker Office. If you do not like our icon style, you can easily restore the previous icons by running this script:
If you want to have SoftMaker Office NX for Linux and important documents with you when on the go, you can copy SoftMaker Office to a USB flash drive. You can then insert this USB flash drive into any Linux-based computer (for example, those of friends or in Internet cafes) and run SoftMaker Office. When you unplug the USB flash drive, no trace of SoftMaker Office will remain on the PC.
TextMaker will create the folder /media/disk/officenx/SoftMaker and copy its default document templates and configuration files into it. This can take up to thirty seconds. After that, TextMaker will be launched.
WPS office suite has been successfully installed on Ubuntu 19.04 but now an err msg abt missing fonts (Wingdings and MT Extra) for use with spreadsheet formulas appears during bootup. These fonts do NOT appear when avail fonts are displayed. So: (1) is their install recommended ? (2) how are the fonts downloaded and installed ? Thanx.
If only thing you worry about is some missing fonts, get the font files for the same and put them in .fonts folder under the Home folder. If there is no .fonts folder, you can create one yourselves. Before you create on type ctrl+H to make sure that hidden files are displayed.
LibreOffice is a free open-source office suite, that works in Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet program, presentation, vector graphics editor, math app, and database management program. And, it uses Open Document Format (ODF) as default file format, though most other major office file formats are also supported, including Microsoft Office DOCX, XML, XLSX, PPTX, and more.
Both Snap and Flatpak packages run in sandbox environment. Snap is powered by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) and available in App Center (Ubuntu Software). While, Linux Mint, Fedora, and a few other Linux prefer Flatpak package. Running app in sandbox can be safer, but it takes more system resources (especially more disk space) due to separate daemon and run-time libraries. And, it might have theming issue and small impact on performance.
Canonical Ltd.[4] is a privately held computer software company based in London, England. It was founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Canonical employs staff in more than 70 countries and maintains offices in London, Austin, Boston, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo and the Isle of Man.[5][6]
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