Comment by cadamsdotcom

15 hours ago

Maybe in a VM.

Or try running via Wine.

You could also try LibreOffice or OnlyOffice and see if the documents are readable / writable.

Failing all that the web versions might work just fine.

Unless you need precise formatting because you will send someone nontrivial slides to present, libreoffice should be fine.

Excel really depends - if you're using it as a glorified document with a table, then libreoffice will do fine. If you need compatibility and more advanced features, or your whole company runs on excel like a financial corp - there's no alternative. VM in that case.

> Failing all that the web versions might work just fine.

I use ~~Office 365~~ the Microsoft 365 Copilot App online all the time on Debian at work.