Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by mrandish on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:23PM (#43852714)

Oh, that's too bad. I haven't checked it out in a long time. However, in recent years the Office UX has been getting increasingly worse for me too. Not ugly, just bigger and fatter, taking up more screen space to show less info.

If open source alternatives aren't suitable, my fallback is to get whatever the last retail box versions were of the few Office apps I actually occasionally use and then never update them. There hasn't been a single new Office feature I care about added in about ten years.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by bflesch on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:01AM (#43855200)

OpenOffice/Libreoffice lets you choose between multiple UX styles, which rearranges the buttons like old office, the ribbon stuff, and many more. I was amazed when I first noticed this (kind of hidden) feature. You should check it out.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by ptx on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:06AM (#43855243)

LibreOffice also does this.

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by bflesch on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:08AM (#43855254)

Correct. Thanks for the hint. I keep mixing up openoffice and libreoffice even though I only use libreoffice on my system.

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