Solved Office 2024 LTSC Pro Plus -- didn't know of any such animal but exists

Hi folks

Got a test preview of Office 2024 Pro LTSC from work for testing -- didn't know it even existed - but seems a lot of things only in office/365 since 2019 have been incorporated into this product.

Not sure if this will hit retail though - but note also if you use legacy data connectors such as msquery in excel you'll need to go to files-->options and on the data section enable the connectors - then when you get external data you'll see an extra colum legacy with your microsoft query as before.

Note also you'll need the oracle community OBDC connector for connecting to mariaDB database for this release - if you installed the 32 bit version of office then install the 32 bit connector.


Then all works as before

Office 2024 LTSC preview




and running a query in EXCEL to remote test MariaDB




cheers
jimbo

The first link I recall reading when it was posted, the second link, Shawn apparently posted today.
I would be eager to try/buy a standalone non subscription, if they sell it that way.

antspants said:

The first link I recall reading when it was posted, the second link, Shawn apparently posted today.
I will be eager to to try a standalone non subscription, if they sell it that way.

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Cheers

I must have missed the announcement -- but it seems fine to me so far (got from work so free to me) !!!!

Includes project (which I still use -- good software and Visio (which I don't really use). I think publisher (which I also don't use has gone now).




Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

I think publisher (which I also don't use has gone now).

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It was set for end of life in October 2026 so that is interesting. I swear I’d seen an article Shawn posted about it but I can not find it.

antspants said:

It was set for end of life in October 2026 so that is interesting. I swear I’d seen an article Shawn posted about it but I can not find it.

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which is also when support for office 2021 ends. Publisher is done after that sadly. It's a great program.

andrew129260 said:

which is also when support for office 2021 ends. Publisher is done after that sadly. It's a great program.

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In the thread I cannot find, there was a post made by someone who said that publisher files could be opened (and worked on?) by another popular program but I forget which.

Adobe InDesign and Scribus can apparently do it

I hope it does not include hidden MS Office 2016 Engine.

gaffar said:

I hope it does not include hidden MS Office 2016 Engine.

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My guess would be that it may be necessary for Office to be compatible for older files.

antspants said:

In the thread I cannot find, there was a post made by someone who said that publisher files could be opened (and worked on?) by another popular program but I forget which.

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I got started with Serif PagePlus some years ago, Version 9 still works on Win11. The name has changed, now is Serif Affinity.