Good morning
New computer Windows 11 - have just set up LibreOffice as a replacement for MS Office 2007. Just wanted to double-check that all my original documents, spreadsheets etc will stay when I uninstall MS Office.
Thank you!
I didn’t have any problems.
To be sure, make a backup of your documents.
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I didn’t have any problems, either
To be sure, make a backup of your documents.
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Files will stay where they are, when uninstalling software. And if you were able to move all your documents to your “new computer” you knew where they are stored.
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But keep an eye on the place. If you store documents “somewhere in a cloud” you can loose access to this place. So have a local backup, especially if you use storage exclusive to an MS365 account.
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As others said: Keep a backup of this files. Problems are rare, but they exist. If you find a problem later, you can return to the backup you take now.
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Note, it is NOT recommended to continue working in MS file-format. There would be an automated translation on every load and save (compare it to french to german language and vice-versa). This can lead to errors sometimes. So, when starting to work with e.g. a docx, then save as odt-file as first step abd use the odt afterwards.
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Expect problems, if you used vba-macros. Also Access-databases will not work out of the box. You may use/connect to the data, but forms etc. have to be recreated.
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Not sure how to reply that encompasses ALL the responses I received. Thank you so much to all who replied - it was extremely helpful.
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