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EllKay
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Why do I need a license to edit Word and Excel files now?

So this just happened today. I can't create new Word or Excel files, nor can I edit existing ones. There is now a paywall that says I need a commercial Office 365 version. Um what? Working for an...
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skyburz's avatar
skyburz
New member | Level 2

This is truly annoying. Why do products always get worse over time?

WD's avatar
WD
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

True… We got Dropbox Business 3 years ago and it was clearly the best option at the time.

Nowadays OneDrive offers much more (full O365 compatiblity + allows to sync Desktop, Documents etc...) and as it's included in O365, there's no reason to pay for Dropbox anymore...

 

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