larsmb,
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I just tried to help a friend and found this - wait what, Save As a PDF in MS Office on your local computer, it ... funnels your local document through their cloud service? 🤯

Sure, no data leak at all.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office-for-mac-saving-as-pdf-requires-internet/a14c45c6-c524-4e77-9f01-5fc62ded14cb

amueller,
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@larsmb

Uninstall MSOffice
Install LibreOffice+Thunderbird

btw. LibreOffice Draw is a PDF Editor!

@kinghaunst

larsmb,
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@amueller The point of sharing that really wasn't to solicit unsolicited advice, thank you 🙂

bert_hubert,
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@larsmb this is a 2016 page though, might no longer be true. But it could be!

larsmb,
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@bert_hubert It's still true - my friend tried to export their document as PDF on a train ride and it failed due to lack of internet connection.

Which is genuinely mind-boggling for a locally running application doing a rather basic task.

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