Why is Microsoft Office running in the background and eating 29 MB?

[HexagonT]

And how to stop it?

Edited June 23, 2022 by HexagonT
Remove typo

[David H. Lipman]

It is part of their licensing.

29MB on Win64 is nothing or at least in their eyes.

[HexagonT]

I think that I might switch to open-source LibreOffice.

[David H. Lipman]

I use it and I love it.

• No Ribbons, Pull-Down menus.
• Still allows TWAIN Scan objects into documents.
• Fully capable creation of fillable PDF Forms and PDF file manipulation
• Symbolic Math functionalities

to name a few points

[AdvancedSetup]

2 hours ago, David H. Lipman said:

I use it and I love it.

Bill Gates called and said you're no longer in the will 😄

 

[HexagonT]

But I also heard that Office has better security:

[HexagonT]

I found the service to disable it!

[HexagonT]

Just now, HexagonT said:

I found the service to disable it!

[Firefox]

Disabling that service may cause your Office programs to not function correctly (Office 365) if you use it on your computer and it will eventually become deactivated.

[HexagonT]

I changed it to Manual now. Is it okay now?

[Firefox]

If you are using Microsoft Office Products (Office 365) on your computer It would be best to leave it as it was, which if I am not mistaken it was set to Automatic, that way it can start when needed.

Edited July 7, 2022 by Firefox
grammer correction

[HexagonT]

Switched to LibreOffice few days ago! I was extremely dreaded seeing the default interface and the environment. However, I spent a lot time customizing it. Now it is okay to use!

[David H. Lipman]

I hate Ribbons.  I saw and continue to see no benefit.  Pull-Down Menus, in my mind, are superior.  But as you can see LO gives you choices.

As you will also see it is TWAIN compliant and easily inserts a graphic directly off a Scanner.

[HexagonT]

Only thing I couldn't yet customize is to make the notebookbar a bit larger and make the notebookbar color 

HEX#f3f3f3

 

[HexagonT]

If anyone knows how, please tell me. Thank you!

[David H. Lipman]

You can ask here;  https://ask.libreoffice.org/

[HexagonT]

By the way, my Microsoft license expired so I have to use LibreOffice anyway.

[David H. Lipman]

You don't "have to" use LibreOffice.  The authors of LibreOffice were also a party to OpenOffice.  However there were disagreements and LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice which is an alternative which one could also use in instead of MS Office

However LibreOffice is the better alternative.

OpenOffice is still worth a mention.  

[HexagonT]

Dark mode for LibreOffice! (Even better than Microsoft Office!)

Edited September 6, 2022 by HexagonT
(Even better than Microsoft Office!)

[HexagonT]

Can anyone tell me how to export LibreOffice settings, please? Thank you!

Found these:
 

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/export-and-import-options-from-one-installation-to-another/41044/2
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/export-and-import-libreoffice-settings/16930

But they either link to a dead URL or talk about other versions.

Edit: The URL works now! Maybe the server was temporarily down.

Edited October 4, 2022 by HexagonT

[leo3487]

Calc can use and edit VBA?

I program some workbooks with lot of VBA

[David H. Lipman]

In LibreOffice:    Tools --> Macros --> Edit Macros