"Paul" wrote

| I thought there was some web page you could go
| to, to design an Office document ? I haven't tried
| it, and just remembered it exists. The page says this
| is "free", whatever that means. Does it use watermarks ?
| Does it insist on OneDrive (and an MSA) ? Dunno.
|
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https://products.office.com/en-ca/of...-office-online
|

I'm not going to allow microsoft.com to run script in
my browser, in order to find out what that page is
about. I assume it's an entry into their trial scam:
You give them personal information, create a Microsoft
account, give them a credit card number, and
basically you've bought into Office 365. The first 3
months are free. After that you have to remember
to cancel it or they start charging your credit card.

They did a similar thing on OEM computers for
a long time, along with Symantec. Remember that?
Stickers on the computers would announce that they
came with Office and/or Norton, but it was actually
just a trial.