Still Using Microsoft Office… Why? - Comments Page 3

Of all the friends I have helped upgrade from MS Windows to Linux, and MS Office to LibreOffice, only one had problems, and that with Excel spreadsheets he used professionally that had Visual Basic macros that did not work correctly under LibreOffice.
So I also installed Oracle VM VirtualBox on his machine, with his MS Windows and MS Excel, and he uses that only for his spreadsheets.

I have tried Libre Office, and Open Office, now Apache, have used Open Office now for about 5 years and love it. My one problem with it is I need excel to use the macro's to get my banking and securities accounts. excel updates my accounts every day and I don't have to use Quicken anymore, which is another VERY expensive program.

I am still using MS Ofice 2007. Other than help is no longer available, the suite is more than adequate for my needs. May try Libre Office just to see what it is like.

I have Office 2000, 2009, and 2013 which work just fine and do not require a subscription fee.

I cannot understand how to transfer a whole lot of MS docs to a free service-Libre? Textmaker? google docs? How do you do it? PLEASE??

FWIW department: I have had three different computers since 18th June 2021, and I am now getting a hateful message that my Office 10 has been installed the maximum number of times. any workarounds to this?
unrelated to that, I would like to comment that I was a top-tier wizard with Lotus 1-2-3, and wrote macros which would throw a whirling dervish out of whirl. I rather find that excel macros don't work quite the same way, and being retired, I don't have anybody for resource or to cry to.