anu-prakash-dev/ms-office-electron

A Microsoft Office Online Desktop Client made with Electron. Free of Cost.

An Unofficial Microsoft Office Online Desktop Client made with Electron. Free of Cost.

Table of contents

• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Windows
  • 💿 Windows Installation
  • 📸 Windows Preview
• macOS
  • 💿 macOS Installation
• Linux
  • 💿 Linux Installation
    • Ubuntu/Debian based distribution installation
    • Red Hat/Fedora based distribution installation
    • Arch/Manjaro Linux based distribution installation
  • 📸 Ubuntu Preview
• 💻 Developing Locally
• 📃 MIT License - Disclaimer: Not affiliated with Microsoft

Introduction

As we know that Microsoft Office is a paid service, they also have a free Web version here.

For those people who can't afford Microsoft Office Subscription, or don't want to pay for that, or like the web version of it, Then MS Office - Electron is the app you require.

MS Office - Electron is the app in which the Web Version of Microsoft Office is wrapped into a Cross-Platform App with Electron. And all the Services of Microsoft Office will work for free.

Note - Windows Hello or Sign in with Security key is not currently supported and will show you an error. You will have to manually sign in with your E-Mail and Password.

Do Expect bugs

Supported Platforms

1. Windows x64 (EXE File)
2. Ubuntu/Debian based distributions (DEB File)
3. Red Hat Linux/Fedora based distributions (RPM File)
4. Arch/Manjaro Linux based distributions (PKG.TAR.ZST File)
5. All Distributions supporting AppImage (AppImage File)

Arch Linux builds are now on AUR!
Mac OS supported now with builds for both M1 And Intel Chips . See the instructions how to install below

Windows

💿 Windows Installation

For Installing this app on Windows :-

1. Just go to the Releases page
2. Scroll down and click the setup.x.x.x.exe file. The Setup file will start downloading.
3. After it downloads, click on the file and proceed with the Installation. You can choose whether to install for only you or all the users on the PC. You can always start the app from Start Menu or from the Desktop Shortcut.

📸 Windows Preview

Click Here

macOS

💿 macOS Installation

For Installing this app on Mac :-

1. Just go to the Releases page
2. Scroll down and click the .dmg file. The build with no architecture written is for Intel Macs (Will fix it soon) and the build with arm64 written in it is for M1 Macs. Download the build according to your Mac.
3. After it downloads, click on the file and mount it on your system. Now drag my app to the Applications Folder (There will be a shortcut in the opened window too) and your app will be installed. Open from Launchpad and enjoy.

Linux

💿 Linux Installation

Ubuntu/Debian based distribution installation

For Installing in Ubuntu/Debian based distribution :-

1. Go to the Releases page
2. Scroll down and click the .deb file to download it.
3. Then run the deb file and click Install to install the App. Launch it from the Applications Menu.

Red Hat/Fedora based distribution installation

For Installing in Red Hat/Fedora based distribution :-

1. Go to the Releases page
2. Scroll down and click the .rpm file to download it.
3. Then run the rpm file and click Install to install the App. Launch it from the Applications Menu.

Arch/Manjaro Linux based distribution installation

Arch Linux builds have been published to "AUR" now!

1. Install any AUR helper like yay

2. There are 2 packages in the AUR

   • ms-office-electron-bin: For installing pre-built releases
   • ms-office-electron-git: For building the app from source and installing.

3. Now, for example, using yay, run:

   yay -Sy ms-office-electron-*

   To install the package accordingly.

4. Wait for it to install and tada! The app is installed.

If you find any issues in using the AUR Builds, please create a New Issue and i'll try to fix that as soon as possible :D

📸 Ubuntu Preview

Click Here

💻 Developing Locally

To build the app locally:
Run this script to automatically install nodejs, yarn and all the dependencies, and automatically start/build the app (it will show options) (Note: for Linux and macOS Only!):

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/agam778/MS-Office-Electron.git
cd MS-Office-Electron
bash build.sh

Or:
Run the following commands to clone the repository and install the dependencies

git clone https://github.com/agam778/MS-0ffice-Electron.git
cd MS-Office-Electron
yarn install

$ yarn run
yarn run v1.22.17
info Commands available from binary scripts: asar, dircompare, ejs, electron, electron-builder, electron-osx-flat, electron-osx-sign, extract-zip, install-app-deps, is-ci, jake, js-yaml, json5, mime, mkdirp, node-which, rc, rimraf, semver
info Project commands
   - dist
      electron-builder
   - pack
      electron-builder --dir
   - start
      electron .
question Which command would you like to run?:

To start the app, run yarn start
To build the app, run yarn dist

📃 MIT License

Disclaimer: Not affiliated with Microsoft