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There's finally a way to get new versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without a subscription

TL;DR: Replace Microsoft 365 with a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2024, now on sale for $129.97. The thing about software subscriptions is you're stuck paying for something you'll never ...

You no longer need a subscription to get Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft 365 is $99.99 per year, at minimum. A more affordable alternative is to switch to Microsoft Office 2024 Home and ...

Microsoft brings free Copilot Chat to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, but there’s a catch

Microsoft has rolled out a free version of Copilot Chat inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for Microsoft ...

Claude’s new AI file-creation feature ships with security risks built in

The feature, awkwardly named "Upgraded file-creation and analysis," is basically Anthropic's version of ChatGPT's Code Interpreter and an upgraded version of Anthropic's "analysis" tool. It's ...
New Atlas

You no longer need to pay monthly for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

TL;DR: Instead of paying monthly for Microsoft 365, now you can get Microsoft Office for life for $130. Every month you pay for Microsoft 365, it becomes a worse deal. Instead of paying $99.99 every ...
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Read and write simple Excel and CSV files

This package allows you to easily read and write simple Excel and CSV files. Behind the scenes generators are used to ensure low memory usage, even when working with large files. Here's an example on ...
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QuickLook.Plugin.OfficeViewer (Native)

This plugin renders MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with native components provided by existing Microsoft Office suite or WPS Office (According to the feedback, in most cases, WPS is not ...