



There are some minor catches with each different version of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - some features come to one platform before the others, the web apps sometimes can’t handle complex formatting, and so on. Between all those different versions, you can work on your stuff across anything you own. There’s also the web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, used for viewing and editing documents from OneDrive cloud storage. However, the subscription includes those three apps, and full access to the mobile versions. Microsoft 365 includes complete access to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and if you hate subscriptions, you can still buy the “Home & Student” bundle for $150 that lets you use those apps on one Mac or PC. If you’re also in the camp of “haven’t seriously used Excel since 2011,” there’s a lot to talk about. Like many people, I transitioned to using Google Docs when it started to become popular, but I kept LibreOffice around for when I needed to open Office files. I’m firmly in Generation Z, so I grew up using early-2000s versions of Word and PowerPoint at home and school - the venerable Clippy is a memory, but a faint and distant one.
