Ms-office 2019 Free Activation Without Any Software

[Rolando Kumar]

Ive managed to survive nearly a decade now without having to purchaseMicrosoft Office or its most popular components: Word, Excel and PowerPoint.I refuse to pay $380.00 every couple years for such awful software.Of course, every so often, someone sends me .doc, .ppt or .xls, andthey expect me to be able to read it, modify it and send it back.[By the way, it's good netiquette to send files as plain text if possible, and pdf if not.]

If all you have to do is read .doc or .xls, uploading to Google Docs is the fastest way to view these files.If you use Gmail, Google will even include an option to open attachments in Google Docs.If you don't use Gmail, you can forward the email to a speciallyassigned email address for Google Docs, and Google Docs will importthe attachment automatically.And, Google Docs does a reasonable job of converting .doc and .xls files into .pdf files.

If you need to modify a file but Google Docs doesn't handleformatting well enough, then I'd recommend trying the freely availableOpen Office. Open Office is a complete replacement for Microsoft Office, and it does a reasonably good job of formatting correctly.

These days, however, I mostly use Apple iWork to view and create Microsoft Office files. At $70, it's hundreds of dollars cheaper than Microsoft Office, and beyond being able to read and write .doc, .xls and .ppt, it's very well designed. In particular, presentations made with Keynote are noticeably more beautiful than those made with PowerPoint. iWork is also my preferred way to convert Microsoft Office documents into .pdf.

The majority of my writing these days is done in LaTeX, a freely available document-processing language that is the de facto standard for high-end scientific, technical and mathematical publishing. Most Unix systems have this software installed by default.

My preferred alternative to Excel is the freely available Gnumeric.I'm not a heavy spreadsheet user, but it works well enough for keepingtrack of grades, doing net-present-value analysis of projectedcash-flows and performing a linear regression.

I was having a discussion on bookmarks in Word with a friend, and he suggested me to check out his implementation of a query in Word. Since I did not have Microsoft Word installed, I told him I don't have Word so I won't be able to test it.

VMWare ThinApp is what you are seeing. I've done some testing while it was still called Thinstall and then VMware bought it. It's nice because it allows you to use Office 2003 / Office 2007 / Office 2010 and many more applications like IE6, IE7, IE8 next to each other.

This even gets better. You can install NET, Java after the first snapshot and then application that uses NET or Java. And then use the application created with ThinApp on system that doesn't have NET or Java Installed.

Though my suggestion was originally denied ;), based on your observations I was probably correct after all: your friend must have had a copy of Microsoft Office which has been virtualized with VMware ThinApp.

First, I verified that a copy of the regular winword.exe and excel.exe would not work by themselves. I installed Office 2003 in a Windows XP VM, then copied them over to a different VM which had never had Office installed. Both applications failed to run.

We use a ThinApp-wrapped version of MATLAB at my university; it has to have a .dat file present with all of the program contents. Depending on the requirements of the application though, this may not be necessary, which appears to be the case with these office programs before.

Essentially, what ThinApp does is it virtualizes the entire directory structure and registry for the application. This allows for the application to be portable and to run without interfering with the system. ThinApp also supports network licensing, so if you have an application (like MATLAB in our case) that your organization has a finite number of licenses for, it can check in with the licensing server before launching the application, and only launch it if it successfully acquires a license.

That directory in %APPDATA% contains the folders which ThinApp virtualizes for the application. Anything that would normally be in Word's %APPDATA% folder, like personal settings, gets saved here instead. Because of this, no matter where you launch the executable from on your computer, the settings will be preserved on that machine. They do not get transfered with the packaged application itself however. This becomes relevant when trying to reset the settings for an application which is packed with ThinApp, as the usual method of deleting its folder in %APPDATA%\Program Name doesn't work - you have to find its virtualized folder.

It's not because the application is called WINWORD.EXE and the icon is the same that it is the exact same application that is shipped in Office. All Office applications have a digital signature. Right-click the winword.exe and excel.exe files and check if there is a Digital Signatures tab. You will notice those applications don't have a signature at all let alone one from Microsoft.

The applications you have are probably self-extracting executables, which contain modified files of Word 2003 so it will run without being installed. If you have 7-zip installed you can try to unpackage winword.exe and see for yourself.

I need to deploy LibreOffice to a university dept, I still want MS Office to be the default application for office files, however since installing LibreOffice MS Office applications all now state they are not default and would I like to select which types of files they should open, I chose not to have LibreOffice as default during the installation, so that obviously does not work, and if I run MS Office apps before I install LibreOffice they open up fine, I also tried this:

Libreoffice is again and again setting itself as default program for word files and that did not work, it is obviously something that LibereOffice is doing so can someone please tell me how I can recify this.

Thanks in advance

Adam

The Default Apps setting is not exclusively new to Windows 10 but, much like many of the other Control Panel staples of previous versions, Microsoft has worked in an almost total rehaul of the old system in favor of something a little more...

Also, on the LO install, if you install via batch file you can set a flag for it not to take default file associations.With the command window in the same folder as the LO.msi,* you could use something like this:

I have just tried your command for a silent install and MS Office is still asking to be default, it is a clean VM just snapped back to previous without LO, before I install LO if I open MS Word it does not ask to be default, soon as install LO, via manul, script or APPV5 streaming MS Word then states it is not set as default.

Can she edit it in excel (not google sheets) without having the subscription? Does it require her to add the folder (which I share) to her dropbox account or can she edit the excel by just using a link?

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When a file is updated and saved, the Dropbox desktop application will sync the changes to the site, and vice versa. If you're both working on the desktop app, the Dropbox Badge would be able to inform the other user if you're on the file, to avoid conflicted copies.

The relative with whom I am trying to cooperate on an excel document (she has a free Dropbox account) cannot make simple changes such as adding a row (which I can do when using the web version). Is this because she has a free version of Dropbox or some other reason?

Hi,

I am afraid it turned out to be several issues which have all now resulted in a fail and I am forced to move the project to the google sphere instead. This is really sad and frustrating and surprising that Dropbox does not offer the feature to collaborate with "everyone" on the document - I have so far avoided the google sphere for my documents, but now having to migrate one project there means I loose the advantage of only having to deal with one system - something I have so far liked with having (several) dropbox subscriptions.

First issue: My teammate (a relative who is less IT proficient) couldn't edit and felt stupid (something I am very unhappy about). In the end, after having spent far too much time on troubleshooting, we realized this is because she is using a tablet with a screen larger than 10" - when that is the case, I now know it is not possible to edit Excel documents with a subscription.

If I instead move the project to the google sphere - I can collaborate with my teammate/relative without her having to purchase any additional subscription (I am already paying quite a lot for my own two dropbox subscriptions). However, it is far more cumbersome for me - as I would have preferred staying in the Microsoft sphere. I am therefore looking at other options.

@NunoAriasSilva I am not sure if this is what I asked exactly. I was looking for adding additional and separate email accounts without having to assign license to them. so they just act as email account and no Office apps or Onedrive etc is assigned to them.

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